hm.

kudos to my sister for informing me of this. the long-lost footage from fritz lang's metropolis has been found in argentina.

"In the 1980s, Argentine film fanatic Fernando Pena heard about a man who had propped up a broken projector for "hours" to screen "Metropolis" in the 1960s. But the version of the film he knew was only one-and-a-half hours long. For years, he begged Buenos Aires' museum to check their archives for the man's longer version."

obviously it's pretty dern cool that they found the footage, but...um...it was in a cinema museum. not too exciting. like, you'd kind of expect it to be there, right? i was hoping it might be found buried under some ex-nazi's house. oh well.