Robert Eggers' Nosferatu successfully reinvents the classic vampire for a new generation. How does his version compare to F.W ...
When I meet Willem Dafoe on Zoom to discuss his latest movie Nosferatu, we get on to mortality fast. The four-time Oscar-nominated actor is talking to me for Radio 4's Today programme about Robert ...
Shadow of the Vampire was shot in Luxembourg. According to the production notes, this was because the Grand Duchy 'claims to have more castle (sic) per square inch than any other country'.
With Robert Eggers' version in theatres, we look at the small but distinguished cinematic legacy of ‘Nosferatu’ ...
In the 2000 movie “Shadow of the Vampire” (a fictionalized depiction of the making of the 1922 silent “Nosferatu”), John Malkovich plays Germany’s F.W. Murnau, obsessed with “authentic ...
It’s a deeply unsettling performance, but then, what else would you expect? Shadow of the Vampire can be rented or purchased on Amazon Prime Video.
in the “Nosferatu”-inspired lark “Shadow of the Vampire” (2000). The history of horror, particularly this set of horrors, can feel like a hall of mirrors. There’s a fierceness to the ...
(Dafoe got an Oscar nomination for playing Max Schreck, the actor who played Orlok in the 1922 film “Shadow of the Vampire.”) He’s a nut, but he knows what’s what, though Friedrich scoffs ...
A hundred years after terrorising its first hapless victims, F.W. Murnau’s rebellious expressionist fever dream refuses to ...
To describe a film about the making of the first vampire movie as 'bats' could never have been more appropriate than with Shadow Of The Vampire. The sort of cinematic folly that film buffs and ...