# Has anyone seen the new digital restoration of Metropolis? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 22, 2002, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-the-new-digital-restoration-of-metropolis/120287 "2002-07-22T22:18:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-the-new-digital-restoration-of-metropolis/120287/21 "2002-07-24T17:51:44Z")
I thought yall were discussing the anime Metropolis, which is one of the best movies I’ve seen in years. Guess not, carry on ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-the-new-digital-restoration-of-metropolis/120287/22 "2002-07-24T18:02:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ArchiveGuy \* > \*\*at the slower frame rate, it got a little, well, boring \*\* **Hodge** ’s link goes into exhaustive detail over frame rate, in the video versions, anyhow. When the Alloy Orchestra performed their score in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, they screened the Moroder version. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-the-new-digital-restoration-of-metropolis/120287/23 "2002-07-24T18:05:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by World Eater \* > \*\*the anime Metropolis, which is one of the best movies I’ve seen in years. \*\* Well, I’ve seen that, too. It wasn’t bad, although at moments I thought I was having acid flashbacks to _Astro Boy_. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-the-new-digital-restoration-of-metropolis/120287/24 "2002-07-24T18:35:10Z")
> [@](#): > > Hodge’s link goes into exhaustive detail over frame rate, in the video versions, anyhow. I couldn’t get the link to work. I’ve seen only one non-Moroder video incarnation and it’s a really old, cheap version which I bought in, gee, middle school…? I haven’t seen any of the DVDs, although the guys from the Munich Filmmuseum did walk us through a couple during one of the sessions just to show how terribly put together they all were. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-the-new-digital-restoration-of-metropolis/120287/25 "2002-07-26T04:19:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \* > \*\*I’ll be going Thursday evening. \*\* …_Wow._ Uh, okay, I’m home now. Sorry, my ears are still ringing from the soundtrack, and I can’t close my eyes without seeing the machine which has sucked out and gulped down the spinal marrow and brain of the man and has wiped out the hollows in his skull with the soft, long tongue of its soft, long hissing; the machine gleaming in its silver-velvet radiance, anointed with oil, beautiful, infallible – Baal and Moloch, Huitzilopochtli and Durgha… Umph. Maybe I’d better wait and report tomorrow morning. ---
**Author:** ![TVGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@TVGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-the-new-digital-restoration-of-metropolis/120287/26 "2002-07-26T04:35:32Z")
This is definitely a film that deserves this level of restoration and care. The clips on the website look great - too bad it’s not travelling anywhere really convenient to me. Unfortunately, I can’t make to SFO while it’s there - damn. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-the-new-digital-restoration-of-metropolis/120287/27 "2002-07-26T11:40:24Z")
I _still_ hate you all, and currently **Ike** the most (as he’s the first one to have seen it.) Fenris, maddened by jealousy ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-the-new-digital-restoration-of-metropolis/120287/28 "2002-07-26T13:19:42Z")
They showed a “mega-restored” version here in DC (at the National Gallery of Art) last winter. Fully restored with a live duo on a synthesizer and organ, I think. The subtitles were in German, and there was a reader who translated. It was way cool. The print was beautiful and the synthesizer could make electicity sounds for the lab scenes, etc… They should have had an intermission, though, as it was a _long_ film. The reader/translater sounded bored, though. I’m not sure if this is the same version being discussed here that’s going into movie theaters. The way this presentation was arranged, it would have been difficult if not impossible to use a conventional theater for the showing. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-the-new-digital-restoration-of-metropolis/120287/29 "2002-07-26T13:29:17Z")
" . . . I can’t close my eyes without seeing the machine which has sucked out and gulped down the spinal marrow and brain of the man and has wiped out the hollows in his skull with the soft, long tongue of its soft, long hissing; the machine gleaming in its silver-velvet radiance, anointed with oil, beautiful, infallible . . . " —Calm down, dear, that was just the R train you took home from the theater. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-the-new-digital-restoration-of-metropolis/120287/30 "2002-07-26T14:17:26Z")
Not only do DC denizens get to see the new digital restoration of **Metropolis** , but the AFI is also showing a festival of Akira Kurosawa/Toshiro Mifune [movies](http://www.afi.com/exhibition/preview/julysept02.pdf) (you’ll need Adobe to open the link) like **Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Sanjuro, Yojimbo, High and Low, Throne of Blood** and **The Hidden Fortress**. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-the-new-digital-restoration-of-metropolis/120287/31 "2002-07-26T14:58:55Z")
:: writes **Gobear** ’s name on the list :: ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2002, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-the-new-digital-restoration-of-metropolis/120287/32 "2002-07-27T02:03:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \* > …and I can’t close my eyes without seeing the machine which has sucked out and gulped down the spinal marrow and brain of the man and has wiped out the hollows in his skull with the soft, long tongue of its soft, long hissing; the machine gleaming in its silver-velvet radiance, anointed with oil, beautiful, infallible – Baal and Moloch, Huitzilopochtli and Durgha… Would you care to elaborate on that, Ike? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-the-new-digital-restoration-of-metropolis/120287.md?page=1)