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The Complete Metropolis [Blu-ray] | ![The Complete Metropolis [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51OJUddbiEL.jpg) | Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Fritz Rasp
Studio: KINO INTERNATIONAL
Category: DVD
List Price: $39.95
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Sales Rank: 5593
Format: AC-3, Dolby, Limited Edition, NTSC, Surround Sound
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 148 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: KICBRK713
UPC: 738329071325
EAN: 0738329071325
ASIN: B0040QYROK
Release Date: November 23, 2010
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| • | Metropolis takes place in 2026, when the populace is divided between workers who must live in the dark underground and the rich who enjoy a futuristic city of splendor. The tense balance of these two societies is realized through images that are among the most famous of the 20th century, many of which presage such sci-fi landmarks as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Blade Runner. Lavish and spectacular, |
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Product Description
Blu-Ray pressing. Metropolis takes place in 2026, when the populace is divided between workers who must live in the dark underground and the rich who enjoy a futuristic city of splendor. The tense balance of these two societies is realized through images that are among the most famous of the 20th century, many of which presage such sci-fi landmarks as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Blade Runner. Lavish and spectacular, with elaborate sets and modern science fiction style, Metropolis stands today as the crowning achievement of the German silent cinema.
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Fritz Lang's Metropolis belongs to legend as much as to cinema. It's a milestone of sci-fi and German expressionism. Yet the story makes minimal sense, and the "theme" belongs in a fortune cookie; to experience the film's pagan power, you have to see the movie. But for decades we couldn't, not really--not with so many versions, all incomplete, often in public-domain prints like smudged photocopies. This Murnau Foundation restoration changes all that. Some shots, scenes, and subplots may be lost forever, but intertitles indicate how they fit into the original continuity and the characters' individual trajectories. Most crucially, the images are crisp, vibrant, and three-dimensional instead of murky and flattened. The composite sequences (the Tower of Babel, a sea of lusting eyes) have been restored to their hallucinatory ferocity. And there's one moment when you can see a bead of sweat roll down a man's cheek--in medium long-shot. --Richard T. Jameson
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