METROPOLIS - THE DIRECTOR'S CUT?

Fritz Lang's Metropolis is a silent film masterpiece, one of the boldest visions of the future ever committed to celluloid. Even now, seventy-plus years after its release, the only other genre film that matches its visual impact is Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.

I didn't realize the masterpiece I've seen a dozen times or more is, in fact, a trimmed version of Lang's original cut. That's why my mind is still sizzling from yesterday's news that formerly lost reels from Metropolis have surfaced in Argentina.

For scholars, movie buffs and sci-fi fans, this is major news -- the equivalent of someone saying, "Hey, we just found the second and third panels of Da Vinci's Last Supper triptych!"

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