Metropolis

Fritz Lang's newly restored 1927 masterwork includes 25 minutes of lost footage that adds wonders to the film's narrative energy.

Can anything be more satisfying than finding the last missing pieces to a puzzle, the critical elements that make the whole thing make sense at last? Turning the discovery even sweeter is finding those precious pieces after more than 80 years of fruitless searching, which is why the theatrical release of the newly reconstituted "Metropolis" has electrified the early-film world. Starting Friday, audiences will be able to see how good it is that what was lost was found, will understand why one grateful expert has said this is "akin to recovering lost books of the Bible. [...]

di Kenneth Turan, articolo completo (3791 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 14 maggio 2010