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Nosferatu

I wanted to go see the new Nosferatu movie.  But first I watched the original 1922 version which is good but has a total hokey sound track. Then I stumbled upon the 1979 version with Klaus Kinski. Werner Herzog, Low budget B quality but turns out to be my favorite even over the new 2024 version and the Bram Stoker's Dracula.   Kinski adds a super creepy, sad almost vulnerable quality to the character.  But the best part is the sound track.  Sound track was scored by the band Popol Vuh.  I was able to stream the entire sound track on Qobuz.  If you like these types of movies this one is worth a watch. Roger Ebert gave it 4 stars and a nice write up. 

"One striking quality of the film is its beauty. Herzog’s pictorial eye is not often enough credited. His films always upstage it with their themes. We are focused on what happens, and there are few “beauty shots.” Look here at his control of the color palate, his off-center compositions, of the dramatic counterpoint of light and dark. Here is a film that does honor to the seriousness of vampires. No, I don’t believe in them. But if they were real, here is how they must look." --Roger Ebert 

 

Nosferatu the Vampyre

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mahgister
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Herzog is a genius and Kinski too...

Why?

They taught us something each time...

For entertainment many other movies can beat it...

I dont care so much for entertainment in movie...

i prefer to be moved... Not excited but fascinated... Not reacting but contemplating even after the movie...

Herzog do it and Kinski too which is not an "actor" but a monster on his own in a way almost no actor in Hollywood ever was save Marlon Brando perhaps....

Herzog is an artist not a movie maker, a thinker as Kubrick was...

 

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bdp24
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I'll be seeing the new one this week, but my favorite is Shadow Of The Vampire. Willem Dafoe was robbed when he didn't win the Oscar for his performance in the movie.

 

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onhwy61
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I like vampire movies, I'm just a sucker for the genre.devil

Art Zoyd did an electronic soundtrack to Nosferatu back in the early 90s that is quite interesting.

Carl Dreyer's Vampyr is an excellent movie on the vampire theme.  It's a sound film, but has a silent movie style.  I would also recommend "Let the Right One In" (the original version) as a nice change of pace.

larryi
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I like the recommendations made above.  I would add to that list Jim Jarmusch's "Only Lovers Left Alive."

frogman
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Meh! Saw the new one last week. I found it underwhelming and while creepy, not particularly suspenseful nor scary. I had high hopes for Willem Defoe’s character, but the performance was caricaturish to the point of being comical.

And since this was posted on the “Music” page:

I actually liked the score…pretty much. Beautiful orchestral playing. However, I have trouble with film scores that are not period-appropriate. Compositionally the score is modernistic, the setting is not. Reminded me of the feeling evoked when watching, for instance, a Western set two hundred years ago accompanied by a score featuring R&R -ish tunes.

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