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appalachiablue

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5. Viewing it on a big screen is what it's designed for--

Sat Jul 4, 2020, 04:48 PM

Jul 2020

all those grand futuristic sets, crowds in action scenes, the drama and more.

I never saw the 80s version with the music song track but first watched it on a small b/w TV my sister had in the mid 1970s; somehow she received a cable channel that ran almost all classic and old movies.

Lucky for us, 'The Little Foxes,' 'Streetcar,' 'Key Largo' were some of the many fine films we were able to enjoy.

These days and after learning more I'd like to watch 'Metropolis' again. Same for Sergei Eisenstein's 'October,' more Chaplin and other works of that earlier era.

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"Metropolis:" Fritz Lang's 1927 Dystopian Sci Fi Classic, Early Films That Paved The Way [View all] appalachiablue Jul 2020 OP

In the early 1980s I saw the version PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2020 #1

Here's a trailer for the 1984 version, I like the music appalachiablue Jul 2020 #2

Thank you for finding that for me. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2020 #3

This was hard to find BigmanPigman Jul 2020 #4

Viewing it on a big screen is what it's designed for-- appalachiablue Jul 2020 #5

TCM has silent films on Sunday nights usually. BigmanPigman Jul 2020 #7

That Joan of Arc is a interesting, I've watched it and appalachiablue Jul 2020 #8

This is one of my favorite films. ChazInAz Jul 2020 #6

A stage version is definitely appropriate given the appalachiablue Jul 2020 #9

A true classic. With the addition of the found footage it is almost complete. cayugafalls Jul 2020 #10