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30 October 2009 7:15 AM, PDT | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »

Maybe you see further than I can see, 

or maybe things just look differently. 

Maybe I'm nothing but a shadow on the wall. 

Maybe love's a tomb where you dance at night. 

Maybe sanctuary is an electric light - 

I get so tired it's like I'm another man. 

And everything I see seems so underhanded. 

I don't see anything that I want. 

And I don't see anything that I want.

*—Pere Ubu, "Heart of Darkness," 1975

Countess: Ich fürchte, es gibt überhaupt nichts auf der Welt, wofür ich mich auf die Dauer interessieren könnte…Alles, was fich vom Auto, von der Loge, vom Fenster aus beobachten lässt, ist teils widerwärtig, teils uninteressant…Mindestens is test lang; weilig!

Mabuse: Sie haben recht, Gräfin—nichts auf der Welt ist auf die Dauer interessant—ausser einem…

—From Dr. Mabuse, Der Spieler, I: Der Grosse Spieler, screenplay by Thea von Harbou from the novel by Norbert Jacques, »

29 October 2009 10:53 AM, PDT | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »

Without the heart there can be no understanding between the Hands and the Mind.--Fritz Lang

Those immortal words from the glorious "Metropolis" will be seen on the big screen again in its full, uncut glory!

The Berlin Film Festival will show the original cut of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" at a gala ceremony on Feb. 10.

The great sci-fi silent film, written by Lang and Thea von Harbou, is one of the most influential films in the history of cinema. It originally bombed at the box-office when it opened on Jan. 10, 1927.

So the Ufa studio re-edited the film, took away 30 minutes of the movie, and then re-released in eight months later to great acclaim!

The outtakes were considered long gone, but Variety is saying that in 2008, "a 16 mm negative of the original was found in Buenos Aires. The original has since been restored by the Murnau Foundation in cooperation with Zdf, »

- Manny

2 articles from 2009