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SILENT CLASSIC METROPOLIS TO RETURN — WITH ROCK SCORE

August 25, 2011 by · Leave a Comment 

The independent film company Kino Lorber, which last year released a restored version of Sergei Eisenstein’s classic silent film Battleship Potemkin is now planning both a theatrical re-release and a DVD/Blu-ray release of another classic, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. But while Potemkin employed the original score created for the film, the Metropolis release will use Giorgio […]

HORROR FILM A HIT AT CANNES

May 19, 2011 by · 1 Comment 

A horror film may be the last thing one would expect to turn up at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, but Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In (La Piel Que Habito) — about a crazed plastic surgeon who exacts vengeance on the man he believes raped his daughter by turning him into […]