Soldier [Blu-ray] [Standard]

Incorporating more than 25 minutes of newly discovered footage, this 2010 restoration of METROPOLIS is the definitive edition of Fritz Lang's science fiction masterpiece. Backed by a new recording of Gottfried Huppertz's 1927 score, the film's dazzling visual design and special effects are more striking than ever. And the integration of scenes and subplots long considered lost endows METROPOLIS with even greater tension and emotional resonance, as it dramatizes the conflict between wealthy uber-capitalists and rebellious subterranean laborers - orchestrated by a diabolical scientist capable of destroying them both.

With this passion project, screenwriter-producer-director Martin Rosen brilliantly achieved what had been thought nearly impossible A faithful big-screen adaptation of Richard Adams's classic British dystopian novel about a community of rabbits under terrible threat from modern forces. With it's naturalistic hand-drawn animation, dreamily expressionistic touches, gorgeously bucolic background design, and elegant voice work from such superb English actors as John Hurt, Ralph Richardson, Richard Briers, and Denholm Elliott, Water ship Down is an emotionally arresting, dark-toned allegory about freedom amid political turmoil.

Not only do they live, but they also run our society, control our businesses, and keep ordinary working stiffs like you and me docile through subliminal messages. When a drifter (Roddy Piper) learns that aliens have become Earth's ruling class and that only special sunglasses can reveal their true form, he becomes determined to put an end to their sinister plans. Offbeat sci-fi allegory from scaremeister John Carpenter co-stars Meg Foster, Keith David. 93 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English; Subtitles English. Two-disc set.