I just saw the near complete version of Metropolis earlier tonight, with music provided by the Alloy Orchestra. It was very good, and I highly recommend seeing it if you have a chance.
When I say 'near complete' I mean it is far more complete than the version that was re-released a few years ago. They found very nearly the rest of the movie in a dim museum in Argentina, and are now only missing two scenes, about six minutes, instead of nearly a half hour of footage.
The Alloy Orchestra performed their own original score to the movie, which they have been evolving for the last twenty years as bit and pieces of the film have been rediscovered. It's not the original score, which I heard last June, but it's quite good in it's own right, and fits the movie well.
It's really a neat experience seeing Metropolis on a movie screen, with real people in the orchestra pit providing live music, like it was back when it was originally screened (I imagine). We even had real unplanned projector 'difficulties', updated for the modern era.
Anyway, like I said earlier, I highly recommend seeing this if you get a chance.
If you're interested, here's a link to the Alloy Orchestra's tour page, so you can see if it will be near you. http://www.alloyorchestra.com/tour.schedule.html
(If you can find it somewhere where it's playing with the original score, go see that too. It's great)
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber." --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.
When I say 'near complete' I mean it is far more complete than the version that was re-released a few years ago. They found very nearly the rest of the movie in a dim museum in Argentina, and are now only missing two scenes, about six minutes, instead of nearly a half hour of footage.
The Alloy Orchestra performed their own original score to the movie, which they have been evolving for the last twenty years as bit and pieces of the film have been rediscovered. It's not the original score, which I heard last June, but it's quite good in it's own right, and fits the movie well.
It's really a neat experience seeing Metropolis on a movie screen, with real people in the orchestra pit providing live music, like it was back when it was originally screened (I imagine). We even had real unplanned projector 'difficulties', updated for the modern era.
Anyway, like I said earlier, I highly recommend seeing this if you get a chance.
If you're interested, here's a link to the Alloy Orchestra's tour page, so you can see if it will be near you. http://www.alloyorchestra.com/tour.schedule.html
(If you can find it somewhere where it's playing with the original score, go see that too. It's great)
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber." --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.
