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In 1981, three-time Academy Award-winning composer Giorgio Moroder began a three-year endeavor to restore the science fiction classic, Metropolis. During this process, Moroder made the controversial decision to give the film a new, contemporary score, and added a pop music soundtrack featuring songs from some of the biggest stars of the early MTV era, including Pat Benatar, Billy Squier, Freddie Mercury, Bonnie Tyler, Adam Ant, Jon Anderson and more.
In addition to the new score, missing footage was re-edited into the film, intertitles were removed and replaced with subtitles and sound effects and color tinting were added, creating an all new experience...and an all-new film! But for more than a quarter century, this version of Metropolis has remained out of print - until now.
A new HD transfer was created from one of the few remaining prints available, and Kino Lorber is presenting the film in the best possible quality - just as it was seen in its original release in August 1984.
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Waited for so long !!!, Sep 9 2011
By Mr. Ed - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
I used to have a friend who let me borrow his Laserdisc copy of Giorgio Moroder's version of Metropolis. I thought that was a better copy than VHS. Moroder's version was never to be found again in print, and I was hoping for a DVD release, Now it's on Blu-ray ! Thank you, thank you!!! I already own the restored black and white version DVD, but Moroder's music score and color tinting, fits with the futuristic ideas of the movie, IMHO. The sound effects are not bad too, like when Freder stumbles into Rotwang's lab. Actually, I saw a screening of Moroder's version first before the classic B&W. I'm happy now that I'll own both versions. Thanks again.
34 of 37 people found the following review helpful
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Time to retire my laserdisc..., Sep 16 2011
By Keith Paynter "videoplusdvd" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
Yes, I'm reviewing a product before it's even released...I first saw 'Metropolis' on video sourced from a low quality public domain 16mm print, with replaced intertitles and incoherent plot, in a university library in 1982. I was lucky enough to see Moroder's revision in Winnipeg when it was first released theatrically, and I was hooked. Color tinting was used to establish mood or setting (a common practise in the silent era, so this was nothing new or blasphemous), subtitles replaced intertitles, an original score was supplied (essential to a silent presentation) that did not rely on previously composed music that may be familiar and therefore distracting, and while Moroder took some liberties with a few additions, such as: adding a moving skyline to the coliseum, embellishing Metropolis' Tower of Babel, and animating the living robot's eyes as it comes to life (to name a few), he did restore one thread long missing from the film - the triangle that was Joh Frederson, Rotwang, and their rivalry for Hel. It would not be properly realized again until the discovery, restoration and re-release of 'The Complete Metropolis'.
Moroder's 1984 release, as equally loved as it is loathed, may still be divisive some 27 years later, but it had a very important impact, by introducing a near-60-year-old silent movie to a whole new generation who wouldn't have given it a second thought, at a time when it could be bought for cheap as a public domain videocassette with unrelated stock music accompaniment.
Yes, I own both of Kino's restoration releases, but I look foward to adding Moroder's labor of love to my library. It's just depressing to know that my out-of-print laserdisc copy will see its potential resale value drop from $250 to $10 once it's released, but that will be offset by the fact that the upcoming Blu-ray will look and sound so much better than the laserdsic ever could, which says a lot, since, until now, the Image/Vestron laserdisc was the best version to own of Moroder's cut.
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Finally!, Sep 7 2011
By Mr Pocket - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis (DVD)
All those years I've been hanging on to my VHS copy of this version, now finally it's coming out in (hopefully) good quality. Many people hate this film, or rather this edition, but I liked it then and still do.Metropolis would probably have sunk into total oblivion, had not Giorgio Moroder generated new interest in this classic by presenting it to a new audience.
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