This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: July 3, 2008 - Truly amazing news from Germany's Die Zeit, by way of the invaluable GreenCine Daily :
A museum in Buenos Aires has reportedly discovered one of the most sought-after treasures of film history, an uncut print of Fritz Lang's 1927 masterpiece "Metropolis" in the original 210-minute version, unseen since its premiere.
After a five-month run in Berlin, the film was drastically cut, with some prints running less than half the original length. Even the most recent restoration, available on DVD from Kino, represents less than 75 percent of Lang's original.
Here's hoping we'll have a chance to see the full thing soon - before Giorgio Moroder tries to get his hands on it.