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You've never seen Fritz Lang's Metropolis. Even the few of you reading this who have seen a restoration of the film or who own the Kino DVD release have never really seen it - the original, 210 minute cut was long thought lost, leaving only various edits of the movie (running times vary based on at what speed the film is shown) floating around for the last 80 years.

Now the entire film has turned up in a vault in Buenos Aires (where all things German go to hide), marking an amazing day in the history of cinema. Everybody may be talking about the summer blockbusters right now, but there's no way we'd be living in the same film world without Lang's original vision.

"No matter how bad the condition of the material may be, the original intention of the film, including all of its minor characters and subplots, is now once again tangible for the normal viewer. The rhythm of the film has been restored," says Professor Martin Koerber, the guy behind the latest restoration of Metropolis. Images from the missing scenes should start turning up tomorrow, when they're printed in the German magazine Die Zeit.

I don't know how long it will be before this new old version of Metropolis is available for the public; I know that this story has sent me to my DVD shelf to dust off that Kino copy, to remind myself of what we currently have so that I'll be all the more impressed by the newly restored scenes.

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Gunter Grass's autobiography has been translated into English, he is German and has just been published in this country. I know my dad would have bought this book, and for some reason the thought that I will buy it, makes me sad. Dammit