Last Tuesday Paula Félix-Didier travelled on a secret mission to Berlin in order to meet with three film experts and editors from ZEITmagazin. The museum director from Buenos Aires had something special in her luggage: a copy of a long version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, including scenes believed lost for almost 80 years. After examining the film the three experts are certain: The find from Buenos Aires is a real treasure, a worldwide sensation. Metropolis, the most important silent film in German history, can from this day on be considered to have been rediscovered.

Fritz Lang presented the original version of Metropolis in Berlin in January 1927. The film is set in the futuristic city of Metropolis, ruled by Joh Fredersen, whose workers live underground. His son falls in love with a young woman from the worker’s underworld – the conflict takes its course. At the time it was the most expensive German film ever made. It was intended to be a major offensive against Hollywood. However the film flopped with critics and audiences alike. Representatives of the American firm Paramount considerably shortened and re-edited the film. They oversimplified the plot, even cutting key scenes. The original version could only be seen in Berlin until May 1927 – from then on it was considered to have been lost forever. Those recently viewing a restored version of the film first read the following insert: “More than a quarter of the film is believed to be lost forever.”

 We are off to the Monster Bash 2008 on June 19th. Come join us.

It’s a film festival. A place to meet the people in the movies, behind the movies and fellow fans of the movies. A series of events celebrating classic horror and science fiction films. And, a monster memorabilia shopping center. The Monster Bash Movie Convention is even more.

It’s a state of mind. A place, like Skull Island, where our imaginations were ignited and still burn behind our everyday jobs and life. The Bash is Forrest Ackerman’s classic monster magazine, the local TV Horror Host, the Aurora monster models, the monster toys of all shapes and plastics…. It’s a place when Halloween was eagerly awaited. It’s the horror and science fiction paperback collections, and most of all it is…the movies

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I’m happy to report that another classic from the 1930’s is being re-released on to DVD, this time by Criterion. Vampyr (1932) will be hitting store shelves on July 22nd. It will restored in hi-definition transfer, have new improved sub-titles and will price at $29.99. Below are all the specs. I’ve attached to this e-mail, the great dvd box art.

With Vampyr, Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer’s brilliance at achieving mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, profoundly unsettling imagery (as in The Passion of Joan of Arc and Day of Wrath) was for once applied to the horror genre. Yet the result—concerning an occult student assailed by various supernatural haunts and local evildoers at an inn outside Paris—is nearly unclassifiable, a host of stunning camera and editing tricks and densely layered sounds creating a mood of dreamlike terror. With its roiling fogs, ominous scythes, and foreboding echoes, Vampyr is one of cinema’s great nightmares.

NOTE: Vampyr is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.19:1, a European format that is narrower than a 1.33:1 image. The black bars along the side of the screen, called “pillarboxing,” are normal for this format, and will be even more pronounced on widescreen televisions.

BONUS FEATURES:

Audio commentary featuring film scholar Tony Rayns

Carl Th. Dreyer (1966), a documentary by Jörgen Roos chronicling Dreyer’s career

Visual essay by scholar Casper Tybjerg on Dreyer’s influences in creating Vampyr

A 1958 radio broadcast of Dreyer reading an essay about filmmaking

PLUS: A booklet featuring new essays by Mark Le Fanu and Kim Newman, Martin Koerber on the restoration, and an archival interview with producer and star Nicolas de Gunzburg, as well as a book featuring Dreyer and Christen Jul’s original screenplay and Sheridan Le Fanu 1871 story “Carmilla,” a source for the film

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Michael Warren walks the line between the world we all know and the world of the supernatural. Specializing in handling problems that don’t fit the normal mold, Micheal deals with the things that go bump in the night. He’s got his own edge in this game though…he’s a werewolf.

When the hunt for a missing person leads him to the horse farms of Kentucky. Michael finds himself drawn into the web of a billionair sheik with a secret of his own.

This time has Michael bitten off more than even a werewolf can chew?

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It is black and white and about some people deep in the jungle who discover a cave that contains an alien presence. The presence is such that every living thing within a fixed spherical diameter of it becomes dead, frozen and trapped. Problem is that this spherical diameter doubles in size every 24 hours. The heroes calculate that they can’t escape by running because the constant doubling of the spherical influence of the alien presence would catch them because of geometric progression, so they have to stay and find a way to destroy it.

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Release Date: 5/27/2008
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Number of Episodes: 17
Running Time: 869 mins
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