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Post by Calenture on Jan 31, 2008 12:28:02 GMT
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jan 31, 2008 13:11:59 GMT
Tremendous! Puts my 99p public domain version to shame, but then this film would be good in any format. I much prefer this to the ponderous Herzog remake (although that does have it's good points). Is that THE Brad Stevens...
PS Anyone seen Shadow Of The Vampire....?
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Post by Calenture on Jan 31, 2008 13:25:00 GMT
Is that THE Brad Stevens... PS Anyone seen Shadow Of The Vampire....? Yes, Vault regular Brad mentioned a little while ago that he'd been asked to do commentary for Nosferatu. He has a book out that I need to link to sometime, too. Shadow of the Vampire - yes again. I saw this on BBC, 3 or 4 years back. I quite liked the idea of Max Schreck as a raving madman. Was he?
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Post by allthingshorror on Mar 17, 2008 9:07:23 GMT
The Eureka release is absolutely stunning. Cost me £20 but it was worth every penny. After years of seeing it on crappy videos and cheap DVD's that you would find in the dirtiest of markets it was such a pleasure to watch this!
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Post by bradstevens on Mar 17, 2008 10:43:53 GMT
Thanks for mentioning my contribution to this terrific release. I also did a commentary for Murnau's TABU (both commentary tracks in collaboration with R. Dixon Smith).
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Post by kale on Jul 13, 2008 22:19:25 GMT
I still haven't watched the PD version of this-I'll save that for a rainy evening and hope I'm not too disappointed. I thoroughly enjoyed Shadow Of The Vampire apart from John Malkovich's standard over exuberant performance. Willem Dafoe is excellent and a joy to watch. I think it catches the feel of Murnau without being too much of a parody.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jul 14, 2008 7:45:27 GMT
I too have a dodgy PD version. I'm currently involved in The Dracula Project, a discussion on another board where we're attempting to watch 12 different adaptations of Stoker's novel. Nosferatu first up. Most viewers seem to have the BFI version (or the Eureka). Bit gutted to find out that the BFI runs to 88 minutes, whereas my PD is only 79. Heck of a film though. I'd like to see Shadow Of The Vampire.
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Post by carolinec on Jul 14, 2008 11:20:24 GMT
I'd like to see Shadow Of The Vampire. I really enjoyed "Shadow of the Vampire" when I went to see it at the cinema when it first came out (I always prefer a film on the big screen - as intended - rather than watching it on TV/DVD). I suddenly realised when watching it what a great straight actor Eddie Izzard is (perhaps "straight" isn't the best word to use, but you know what I mean!). ;D LATER EDIT: Oh, and I've seen "Nosferatu" twice on the big screen - with live musical accompaniment! There are great gains to be had from living so close to the National Media Museum.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jul 14, 2008 11:38:58 GMT
Oh, and I've seen "Nosferatu" twice on the big screen - with live musical accompaniment! There are great gains to be had from living so close to the National Media Museum. Nice one, Caroline! I've seen Nosferatu at the NFT with an old girl tickling the ivories. ALso The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari (1919) with a ten-piece band. One of the items that came up in discussion was the which soundtrack question. My humble PD version has an odd organ/light classical accompaniment. The BFI goes with a James Bernard score (I saw this on Channel 4 (?) once and dismissed it as 'too Hammer' and hence distracting (I'm in a minority). The Eureka has the original German score I believe. A bit of Googling a while back revealed that Krautrock loons Faust not only recorded an unofficial soundtrack but played it as a live accompaniment to screenings of the film. Setting myself up for a fall - the next Dracula in the schedule is Bela Lugosi - I think I'm gonna be the only one watching with the Philip Glass minimalist drone!
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Post by carolinec on Jul 14, 2008 16:20:09 GMT
Oh, and I've seen "Nosferatu" twice on the big screen - with live musical accompaniment! There are great gains to be had from living so close to the National Media Museum. Nice one, Caroline! I've seen Nosferatu at the NFT with an old girl tickling the ivories. ALso The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari (1919) with a ten-piece band. There's a pianist round here - Terry Laidlaw, I think he's called - who does these musical accompaniment things at the NMM. I've seen him do Nosferatu, Dr Caligari and also Metropolis - great stuff! Never seen one with a 10 piece band though - sounds good!
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Post by killercrab on Jul 14, 2008 17:59:14 GMT
(I always prefer a film on the big screen - as intended - rather than watching it on TV/DVD). >>
I believe late night tv was invented for horror films. ;D
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Post by kale on Jul 14, 2008 21:03:26 GMT
A little removed from the original point of this thread but pertinent to a certain degree. I do miss the late Saturday night screenings of the old Universal films. Very prevalent in the early eighties. Settling down to watch a double bill of The Wolfman and The Invisible Man was a great inspiration to avoid sleep. Late night TV was definitely invented for horror.
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Post by carolinec on Jul 14, 2008 22:31:46 GMT
Sorry, I've taken a few of you off on a tangent, but this is an interesting discussion in it's own right. Yes, I agree about the old late night TV horror - that was how I first got into it myself. But I did find that once I got the chance to see some of these at the cinema as well, seeing them on the big screen gave them even more magic for me.
I have a bit of a thing about cinema (and theatre) buildings generally anyway, so that probably adds to the magic for me. There's an old cinema building in Leeds - Hyde Park Picture House - which was just made for watching horror films in! It always reminds me of the short story by Graham Greene "A Little Place off the Edgware Road". Sadly, there aren't many cinemas like that around any more.
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Post by redbrain on Jul 15, 2008 13:36:01 GMT
I have the Eureka 2 disc version issued in 2000. Is the new one a hell of a lot better? I'm resistant to replacing DVDs with newer versions. I bought a second copy of Blue Velvet on the basis of a review I read. The review said that the version I'd already bought had a poor picture quality, and the new one was way better. I bought the new one, and couldn't see the difference.
I saw Nosferatu on the big screen in Leicester in the late 70s or early 80s. It seems to work a lot better on the big screen.
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Post by pulphack on Jul 15, 2008 14:34:34 GMT
well, i've only got the dodgy pd version too, but let's be honest, it's all you'll ever need as it's not that good, is it? browning's dracula is better, and i'd rather have herzog's nosferatu - though that may be down to a thing about wh and also his soundtrack regulars popul vuh.
late night tv really was made for horror - all my seminal horror movie moments are thanks to thos fuzzy, crystal like skull appointment with fear threads that they used to run on itv (at least in london). however, i do agree with you, caroline - the building can make the whole cinema experience worthwhile. restored buildings and non-multiplexes have a charm of their own. it's the whole deal of going, the plush seats, the shared experience... but i do hate multi-screens that are conversions - my local one in south woodford has one screen that's about the size of your lounge, with a screen barely bigger than a plasma screen whopper. what's the point? also, while i'm at it, there are some movies that only really work properly on the big screen - those epic fx ridden sci-fi thing, for instance.
but the real horror experience was seeing The Skull, Dr Phibes, Theatre of Blood, Quatermass And The Pit, etc with a break every fifteen minutes prefaced by that silly skull thing... that's where it comes from for a lot of us, i'll bet.
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