Film buffs, the most important event in film restoration of our lifetimes -- and probably ever -- is upon us. An hour of additional footage from "Metropolis" -- Fritz Lang's 1927 science fiction classic -- is being streamed live tomorrow afternoon. This is the cinematic equivalent of discovering another play by Shakespeare or another novel by George Eliot. The problem? The subtitles are only being streamed in German or French. (Tim, this shouldn't be an issue for you, then!) What are the rest of us English-speaking people to do? Well, I, unfortunately, am too busy tomorrow to watch the live stream and will have to wait for the release with English subtitles anyways.
But if you have some time, and have seen Metropolis, my guess is that the footage will speak for itself. If you think you've seen five movies better than Metropolis, you're wrong.
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I know I've seen five better movies, even five better silent movies. To obnoxiously borrow Supreme Court rhetoric, there are many problems with cinema, but a dearth of footage of Metropolis is not one of them.
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