what was once lost

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The Buenos Aires restoration of Metropolis streams tomorrow.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100211/COMMENTARY/100219992

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[curriejean.livejournal.com]

THIS IS SO EXCITING.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

eeee!

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

Well, I know how I'm spending my lunch hour.

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

OMG GASP SQUEEE oh shit I have to go to Costco that day DAMNIT I hope it's gonna be available some other way as well.

[humascot97.livejournal.com]

Seconded!!

[bilyana.livejournal.com]

Are you sure about the internet streaming? To me it looks like arte (a french/german TV station) will broadcast the premiere, but I can't find anything on the german or the french site indicating that they will simultaneously stream it on the net. Would be exceptionally awesome if they did, though. (otherwise, TV streaming sites may be the way to watch it anyway)

[elainasaunt.livejournal.com]

Am so glad you pointed this out. Even now making arrangements to see it on Arte on a friend's big TV.

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this. I had no idea.

Though I'll be on a plane while it's streaming...

I'm sure there will be other methods of seeing it later.

[newsbean.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[newsbean.livejournal.com]

The actual link to watch it in French:

http://www.arte.tv/fr/mouvement-de-cinema/cinema-muet/3050038.html

It even has a countdown timer.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Ooh, 'ta! I doubt I'll get the opportunity to watch it, but merely that it has been brought back into being is awesome.

[robling-t.livejournal.com]

...So much for this afternoon, I guess. :)

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

Oh, NICE.

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

OMG!

[bugeyedmonster.livejournal.com]

That is sooo... beyond words to say how good it is that they found the missing bits of Metropolis. Cool movie. It actually makes more sense than the book. (If you've ever read it.)

I still love the Giorgio Moroder version of Metropolis. That is such a cool soundtrack. Part of me wishes they would re-do a lot of the old silent films with cool soundtracks. Like Broken Blossoms or The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

Though now I'm trying to decide whether Cabinet was creepier when once I saw just the film with no old style piano music added. It was completely silent, I'm not sure where my teacher found that tape. I've always ended up turning off the sound on Cabinet because that piano stock soundtrack detracts to the movie for me. The piano score sounds too... light(?) to go with such a creepy movie.

Oh, a warning about Broken Blossoms. Incredibly good but very sad. Right up there with the anime Grave of the Fireflies in the sadness level. Guaranteed to make you depressed after-wards.