It’s the ones I like anyway that really benefit from being seen in a clear print. I’ve spent my life seeing progressively better and more complete reconstructions of Metropolis (1927)*, but the really revelatory one was about a dozen years back when I got to see that the actors’ makeup and facial expressions were way less stylized than I’d always thought from the blurred, grainy copies.
*A friend of mine at university found an English translation of the novelization, so we at least found out where Josephat disappeared to for the whole second and third acts, and various other subplots that were missing from the film as it existed at that time — but it’s nice to actually see them on screen.
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It’s the ones I like anyway that really benefit from being seen in a clear print. I’ve spent my life seeing progressively better and more complete reconstructions of Metropolis (1927)*, but the really revelatory one was about a dozen years back when I got to see that the actors’ makeup and facial expressions were way less stylized than I’d always thought from the blurred, grainy copies.
*A friend of mine at university found an English translation of the novelization, so we at least found out where Josephat disappeared to for the whole second and third acts, and various other subplots that were missing from the film as it existed at that time — but it’s nice to actually see them on screen.