Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:57:26 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Metropolis Found!
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> <mike.nelson at seahunt.org> 7/7/2008 9:53 AM >>>
>>> dicconf <dicconf at radix.net> 7/7/2008 12:09 AM >>>
>>>
>>>On Sun, 6 Jul 2008, Stan wrote:
>>>
>>>> It looks like they found a complete, 210 minute original German =
version
>>>> =
>> of
>>>> Fritz Lang's classic in Argentina.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.dougredway.net/blog/?p=36
>>>
>>>So when are they going to release it?  It should be a two-volume set
>>>with the restored version that came out a while ago.
>>
>> ""Metropolis" was reissued in the U.S. in 2002 by Kino International =
=
>> Corp., which owns the rights to distribute the film domestically, =
Kino's =
>> general manager Gary Palmucci said.
>>
>> Kino may rerelease the new, complete version of the film."
>
>Kino is planning a 2009 release on DVD and Blu-Ray.

Oh goody!

& hopefully they'll do a theatrical release too.

mjw