They found it!
There are several versions of Fritz Lang's marvelous silent sci-fi epic Metropolis. I've seen 'em all. What no one has seen in 80 years is the complete 3-and-a-half hour directors cut. Folks started whacking away at Metropolis about 20 minutes after its initial 1927 release. The strange blond man? At last we shall know who he is! What he means!
It turned up at a film research institute in Buenos Aires. Wouldn't you think you'd keep track of a little thing like the only known director's cut of one of the greatest films ever made?
Anyway, this is as exciting as when the only directors cut of Falconetti in The Passion of Joan turned up in the closet of a Danish Insane Asylum. You just never know where these things are going to show up. Note to self: Check under bed for only known directors cut of Thelma Ritter as Hedda Gabler.
Something that will forever make me roar with glee? The memory of David Johnston doing his reenactment of Robot Maria's Dance of Debauchery (see photo above). It works every time. Thank you for that, David.
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