more movie impossibility

[rm]

Okay, the find of a near-complete narratively cogent Metropolis was supposed to be the film thing that could never and would never happen. The future, lost forever to the past. And yet, that happened, somehow, a couple of years ago.

And now, in a similar vein, we might actually get The Other Side of the Wind which is like... I mean, it's Orson Welles (one of my great obsessions) about the directorial personality. And death. I mean... really? This? Finally? We were never supposed to be able to have this one either. *shivers*

SO EXCITING.

via coyotegoth

Comments

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

HOLY SHIT.

[hughcasey.livejournal.com]

I have to admit, I'm still waiting for a print of Lon Chaney's "London After Midnight" to turn up. Hey, I can dream, can't I?

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

Omigod, me too! Part of my Halloween screensaver montage is a shot of Lon Chaney with that terrifying shark's grin.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Me too. Also Theda Bara's Cleopatra.

[yendi]

I was about to make this exact comment. :-) I even mentioned it on the "We Want it on DVD" panel at Arisia last week.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

That, or Stroheim's complete Greed.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Duuuuuude. Wow.