October 31, 2008

Nosferatu the Vampyre.

Nosferatu the Vampyre The IFC Center in New York is reviving Werner Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampyre through Tuesday.

"Between the hordes of stowaway rats that accompany Dracula's arrival, and a town-plaza dance of folly by doomed survivors (a Herzog addition), it's like being present at the birth of a medieval legend," writes Nicolas Rapold in the Voice. "Rather than a remake, Herzog saw Nosferatu as a reconnection with German culture, reaching past the Great War to an earlier age (scoring to Wagner, playing up the silent-era look of Isabelle Adjani as Lucy)."

"You can love this movie without having to admit it's merely an okay version of Dracula." Joshua Rothkopf explains in Time Out New York.



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Posted by dwhudson at October 31, 2008 7:50 AM

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I saw this last night at the IFC. At the 5:40 show, there were about 6 of us sitting there. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed something on the ground even through the dimness of the theater. A rat! A rat in the empty movie theater, how coincidental considering the presence of so many rats in Nosferatu. That aside, I love this flick. Too bad it wasn't the German version, but it was cool anyway. How unbelievable did Adjani look? Lovely, so glad it was shown.

Posted by: John at October 31, 2008 12:17 PM