11月20日
DVD Tuesday
I love a good DVD week. And some great discs were released today, including Werner Herzog's "Rescue Dawn" (with the always impressive Christian Bale), "Hairspray" which was surprisingly great, Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes," a special edition of "I Am Cuba," a special edition of "Hearts of Darkness," "Nosferatu" and more.
"The first great vampire film, F.W. Murnau's silent classic is an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' (it was tied up by the Stoker estate for years) that recreates the famous bloodsucker as a feral ghoul: bald, fanged, clawed, a batlike creature whose bloodlust battles his sexual lust for the virginal Ellen. Count Orlok (played by the spindly, skull-headed Max Schreck) is a veritable force of evil, carrying disease and destruction with him, and Murnau shoots him as an eerie creature of the night, rising like a corpse from his coffin when the sun goes down and skulking in shadow. This early expressionistic masterpiece remains one of the greatest horror films ever made. The two-disc set features separate versions of the film, with newly translated English intertitles or original German intertitles, both newly restored from a 1922 nitrate original and accompanied by Hans Erdmann's original 1922 score. Also features the 52-minute documentary 'The Language of Shadows: The Early Years and Nosferatu,' a three-minute featurette on the digital restoration, lengthy excerpts from eight other Murnau films, a stills gallery, and scene comparisons."
Read Sean's entire, informative column
here.
--posted by Kim
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