Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979)
I hope there isn't already on thread on this, I searched for it but didn't find anything. How's this for a bold opening statement? Werner Herzog's Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht is the film that every...
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I believe I read that, too. NOTL gets the paranoia right, the fear of your former neighbors resurrected and coming back to get you. While it's no classic, I enjoyed moments of LAST MAN ON EARTH, and...
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True about the end of Matheson's excellent novel, JS. A director friend of mine is a serious Herzog admirer, and sent along these Nosferatu comments from the book "Herzog on Herzog": "What I really...
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I have the Two-Disc special edition from Anchor Bay and the commentary from Herzog is fantastic. He mentions that his goal was to create a dream like world void of reality and that he believed that is...
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Craig, thanks for the insightful quote! Drac 39, I posted minutes after you did, I guess. I still have the ol' VHS copy kicking around...It's in German with English subs. Heck, I think it even has an...
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Welcome, Rats. (Sounds like a pretty head's-on-straight guy, doesn't he?) Best, -Craig
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Wich2 wrote: Welcome, Rats. (Sounds like a pretty head's-on-straight guy, doesn't he?) Best, -Craig He does indeed, Craig. Go figure. Rather contrary to all of the convoluted eccentricities most of us...
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Wich2 wrote: Welcome, Rats. (Sounds like a pretty head's-on-straight guy, doesn't he?) Best, -Craig Don't forget he DID eat his shoe!
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I love this movie, regardless of which language. The imagery, and especially the music, is awesome. I gotta check out some Popul Voh CDs. Same I feel about Aguirre, and Fitzcarraldo. Now my question...
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Carl,.. yes NOSFERATU was filmed twice and no, the others were not.
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"Don't forget he DID eat his shoe!" Well, see, THERE he was emulating CHAPLIN.
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todmichel wrote: In fact the German and English versions are totally different, each scene having been filmed twice, with the same actors. There is a mystery, however. This movie is a German/French...
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Tripod wrote: I've read that those mummies we see at the beginning of the movie are all real. I'd be curious to find out more about this: It seems as though they died in excruciating pain, jusdging...
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RatsinFleight wrote: Wich2 wrote: Welcome, Rats. (Sounds like a pretty head's-on-straight guy, doesn't he?) Best, -Craig He does indeed, Craig. Go figure. Rather contrary to all of the convol...Read...
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Thanks Red Gargon! Natural Mummification....... Most interesting......
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DonM435 wrote: I regard Herzog's film as the best remake of a classic ever. I just wish they'd retained the Murnau/Galeen character names instead of restoring the Stoker nomenclature. There are plenty...
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They definitely should have kept the names the way they are in the original Nosferatu (1922), regardless of the fact that the story was actually "ripped off" from Bram Stoker's Dracula novel. The fact...
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BijouBob8mm wrote:Dracula was wading thigh-high in a sea of stone crosses in the cemetery outside and doesn't so much as bat an eye.I see what you did there...
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Red Gargon wrote: Tripod wrote: I've read that those mummies we see at the beginning of the movie are all real. I'd be curious to find out more about this: It seems as though they died in excruciating...
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