Metropolis restoration & re-release

Craig Kennedy at Living in Cinema features the new trailer for the newest restoration of Metropolis incorporating new footage long-forgotten in the archives of a museum in Argentina. I’m hitting on the “newness” a lot here to lobby for the re-release of Metropolis to qualify as a debut. Would be nice if Lang’s resurrected masterpiece could get the same sort of attention Army of Shadows received when it was finally exhibited in its entirety in the US — and shot to #1 on Metacritic’s list of the best movies of 2006 (nearly 40 years after it was shunned and shelved). How cool would it be to see Metropolis and Inception side by side on a critic’s Top 10 of 2010?

Anyone unable to make a pilgrimage to Gauman’s Chinese Theatre this weekend to see Metropolis screened as part of TCM’s Classic Film Festival will be happy to know blu-ray.com has announced the blu-ray release is scheduled for November. You’ve waited 83 years; so what’s another 7 months?