BlogCadre - movie

Lost scenes from "Metropolis" found

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:19:50 -0500

Lost scenes from the legendary silent film "Metropolis" were discovered in Buenos Aires.

ZEITmagazin has now reconstructed the story of how the film nevertheless managed to survive. Adolfo Z. Wilson, a man from Buenos Aires and head of the Terra film distribution company, arranged for a copy of the long version of “Metropolis” to be sent to Argentina in 1928 to show it in cinemas there. Shortly afterwards a film critic called Manuel Peña Rodríguez came into possession of the reels and added them to his private collection. In the 1960s Peña Rodríguez sold the film reels to Argentina’s National Art Fund – clearly nobody had yet realised the value of the reels. A copy of these reels passed into the collection of the Museo del Cine (Cinema Museum) in Buenos Aires in 1992, the curatorship of which was taken over by Paula Félix-Didier in January this year. Her ex-husband, director of the film department of the Museum of Latin American Art, first entertained the decisive suspicion: He had heard from the manager of a cinema club, who years before had been surprised by how long a screening of this film had taken. Together, Paula Félix-Didier and her ex-husband took a look at the film in her archive – and discovered the missing scenes.

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Related:
Official "Metropolis" website

Food Fight

Mon, 12 May 2008 22:03:36 -0500

Presented by Tourist Pictures and created by Stefan Nadelman,

Food Fight is an abridged history of American-centric war, from World War II to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict. Watch as traditional comestibles slug it out for world domination in this chronologically re-enacted smorgasbord of aggression.

Link.

Falling Water features a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:54:24 -0500

Cristobal Vila of Eterea Studios put together a well done short computer graphic movie featuring Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece, Falling Water. The house was designed in 1935. Construction began in 1936 and concluded in 1939.

Create your own Simpsons character (avatar)

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:34:59 -0500

Over at the Simpsons Movie website you can create your very own Simpsons character (avatar). Create an account and save your avatar; You can see your character in unexpected places on the website. [via Neatorama]

Previously:
South Park Create-a-Character, Mr. Men & Little Miss, Become an M&M

Big Lebowski Phonetic Alphabet

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:53:48 -0500

"A is for Autobahn"
"B is for Bowling"
"C is for China man"

Contribute to The Big Lebowski Phonetic Alphabet which is in the works here. The object is to only use "characters, phrases, places, and objects that are featured in the cinematic classic The Big Lebowski."

There are some funny ones!

[via delicious]

A Smurfin' Movie Deal

Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:02:01 -0500

Cruising the morning news outlets for opinions of our potentially newest Supreme Court Justice, and stumbled onto this little nugget.

It would seem that there has been a deal struck to bring the Smurfs, those loveable blue buggers, to the 3D big screen.

Now, I don't know about all of you, but I loved the smurfs. I loved that they cussed, in their own little way, and I loved that it was always a happy ending. Of course, I was 8, but you've got to instill that sense of false serenity in a child early on...

In any case, here's the full article at abcnews.com, I hope you smurfin' enjoy it!