Metropolis DVD Bundle
| Director : | Fritz Lang |
|---|---|
| Starring: | Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Gustav Froelich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge |
| Country : | Germany |
| Genre s : | Blu-ray, Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Silent |
| Type: | B&W |
| Year: | 1927 |
| Language: | English intertitles |
| Length: | 148 |
| Aspect Ratio: | 1.33:1 |
SYNOPSIS
This special 3-Disc DVD bundle contains THE COMPLETE METROPOLIS and GIORGIO MORODER PRESENTS METROPOLIS.
REVIEWS
"A MASTERPIECE OF VISIONARY SILENT CINEMA... one of the strangest, most fascinating films ever made, a futuristic nightmare that is both sublime in its grandeur and remarkably intimate in its emotions. Just about every science-fiction movie you can think of pays tribute to its influence, but to date none has matched its strangeness or its prophetic power."
- A.O. Scott, The New York Times
"The greatest of all pulp fantasies! Lang’s profligate hallucination of a future city is a movie
whose every detail is subsumed to the overall effect."
- J. Hoberman, The Village Voice
"The plutonium template for sci-fi moviemaking...
Remains one of the most inspirational and influential movies of any genre."
- John Anderson, Newsday
"A superspectacle... ESSENTIAL."
- Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
"Lang’s pop-visionary epic has always been a milestone of precision craftsmanship on a gargantuan scale. A proto-noir suspense film... a mad-scientist extravaganza and all-out disaster flick!"
- Michael Sragow, The New Yorker
"One of the handsomest, visually most inventive films of the 20th century,
and certainly one of the all-time great sci-fi films... a powerful parable."
- NY Press
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Brigitte Helm as Maria Credit: Courtesy of Kino Lorber, Inc. -
Gustav Froelich as Freder Fredersen Credit: Courtesy of Kino Lorber, Inc. -
The Lower City Machine Room Credit: Courtesy of Kino Lorber, Inc. -
Brigitte Helm as the Robot Credit: Courtesy of Kino Lorber, Inc. -
Brigitte Helm as Maria Credit: Courtesy of Kino Lorber, Inc. -
Brigitte Helm as Maria Credit: Courtesy of Kino Lorber, Inc. -
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Fritz Rasp as Joh Frederson spy as "Slim" in a scene from the newly recovered footage Credit: Courtesy of Kino Lorber, Inc.
Films
The Complete Metropolis
This film is also available for individual purchase - click here- Director: Fritz Lang
- Country: Germany
- Year:1927
- Language:English intertitles
- Description:
Fritz Lang’s Sci-Fi Masterpiece
With 25 Minutes of Restored Footage
One of the most celebrated movies in cinema history...For the first time, Lang’s vision... which has influenced contemporary films
like “Blade Runner” and “Star Wars,” seems complete. — The New York Times
Incorporating more than 25 minutes of newly discovered footage, this 2010 restoration of METROPOLIS is the definitive edition of Fritz Lang’s science fiction masterpiece. Backed by a new recording of Gottfried Huppertz’s 1927 score (presented here in 5.1 Stereo Surround), the film’s dazzling visual design and special effects are more striking than ever. And the integration of scenes and subplots long considered lost endows METROPOLIS with even greater tension and emotional resonance, as it dramatizes the conflict between wealthy über-capitalists and rebellious subterranean laborers—orchestrated by a diabolical scientist capable of destroying them
both.
Germany 1927 B&W 148 Min. 1.33:1
Directed by Fritz Lang
Screenplay by Thea von Harbou
Photographed by Karl Freund, Günther Rittau Production design: Otto
Hunte, Erich Kettelhut, Karl Vollbrecht
With Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Music by Gottfried Huppertz
A film of Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung in co-operation with ZDF and ARTE World sales: Transit Film
Restoration carried out by Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, Wiesbaden jointly with Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen, Berlin in co-operation with Museo del Cine Pablo C. Ducros Hicken, Buenos Aires
Editorial restoration: Martin Koerber, Frank Strobel, Anke Wilkening
Digital image restoration: ALPHA-OMEGA digital, München
Music performed by the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Conducted by Frank Strobel
If you are a library, school, or institution, and require Public Performance Rights or a digital site license, please visit Kino Lorber Edu.
THIS PRODUCT IS REGION PROTECTED AND WILL NOT BE SHIPPED OUTSIDE OF THE USA AND CANADA
UK Buyers should purchase the Masters of Cinema Edition on DVD or Blu-ray. Other countries should inquire with local DVD/Blu-ray merchants.
Giorgio Moroder Presents Metropolis
This film is also available for individual purchase - click here- Director: Fritz Lang
- Country: Germany, U.S.
- Year:1984
- Language:English intertitles
- Description:
In 1984, Academy Award-winning composer Giorgio Moroder (Midnight Express, Flashdance) introduced Fritz Lang’s science fiction epic METROPOLIS to a new generation of moviegoers. Working in collaboration with film archives around the world, he supervised a special reconstruction of the film, with color tinting, fewer inter-titles, and newly restored footage. A pioneer in the field of digital music, Moroder backed this special edition with a throbbing new score, punctuated with pop songs from some of the biggest stars of the early MTV era: Freddie Mercury, Pat Benatar, Adam Ant, Bonnie Tyler, Loverboy, Billy Squier, and others. Unavailable on home video for more than two decades, Kino Classics is now proud to revive the 1984 edition of METROPOLIS, an historic achievement in film restoration, and a dramatic vehicle for the visionary music of Giorgio Moroder.
Rather than substitute digitally enhanced footage from one of the restorations that have occurred in the 27 years since the release of Moroder’s METROPOLIS, Kino Classics has chosen to present the film exactly as it appeared in 1984, mastered from an archival 35mm print. Hide this content.
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