Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson star in Halina Reijn’s provocative erotic drama.
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: a trio of music videos directed by E. Elias Merhige. Several famous directors have tackled remakes of Nosferatu, most noticeably Werner Herzog, and now Robbert Eggers. But one re-adaptation of Nosferatu, called Shadow of the Vampire, flew kind of under the radar. Its director is E. Elias Merhige, who has had an erratic but interesting career, starting out with the avant-garde arthouse-horror Begotten; following it up with the aforementioned film about Nosferatu-portrayer Max Schreck being a real-life vampire; making the interesting serial killer thriller Suspect Zero, and then continuing the work in the Begotten-trilogy by finishing it with the shorts Din of Celestial Birds and Polia…
A genrebending documentary about the stories we tell ourselves.
Peter Flynn’s documentary shows the humanity in celluloid collecting.
If there was one trend I saw when selecting Key Art for this column in all of 2024, it was nearly every designer doing their utmost to not include the credit block. Either there was an unusual number of teaser posters released this year (entirely possible) or the notion that the credit block, no matter how tiny the print, is no longer wanted or needed. This is akin to most studio blockbusters moving their opening credit sequences to the end of the film starting about 15-20 years ago. There was a dearth of pink and orange this year, although many posters leaned into greens and yellows and of course black & white (From Godzilla Minus One Minus Color at beginning of the year to Nosferatu…
An undead fiend lusts after a distraught waif in Nosferatu, Robert Eggers’s languid retelling of one of horror cinema’s most influential texts. Thomas (Nicolas Hoult) is an ambitious and newly married real estate agent eager for promotion when his boss, Herr Knock (Simon McBurney) offers him an opportunity that he cannot refuse. Travel to Transylvania to close a monster deal with the eccentric Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård), and he’ll be set for life. The only downside is that he’ll have to leave behind Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp), his blushing bride who happily dotes after him, but they see the chance to build something greater for themselves and accept the challenge. Little do they know that Orlok’s has ulterior motives that will put their very existence in…
For a great many aspiring cinephiles, F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu: A Symphony Of Horror served as their entry point into both Silent Cinema and also German Expressionism. Perhaps because of the film’s subject matter, rooted firmly in the horror genre, Murnau’s thinly veiled adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic novel Dracula is perceived as more appealing and approachable than other films in the movement. Certainly much of the film’s imagery is now synonymous with German Expressionism many decades later, while the fearsome appearance of its central antagonist, Count Orlok, has become an icon of cinematic horror. In truth, however, Nosferatu was made very much on the fringes of the German Film Industry, on a shoestring budget funded by renowned occultists. On its release, Nosferatu was not…
The team behind France’s freshest incest drama discuss lockdown creativity, national morality, and embarking on a uniquely familial project without bumpers.
Alec Baldwin, Travis Fimmel, Frances Fisher, Josh Hopkins, and Patrick Mcdermott star in Joel Souza’s film, marred by cinematographer Halyna Hutchins’s tragic death during production.
Mohammad Rasoulof’s film ‘grapples with mistrust and paranoia’ in Iran.