With the 1920 release of Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, German Expressionist cinema hit its first peak amid a climate of nationwide economic, political, and spiritual despair.
With the 1920 release of Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, German Expressionist cinema hit its first peak amid a climate of nationwide economic, political, and spiritual despair.
emotion-laden style we now call German Expressionist cinema was exemplified by such F.W. Murnau works as “Nosferatu” (1922), an unnerving, haunting twist on Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.” ...
The story of “Nosferatu” is in a lot of ways, a bit of a miracle. Much like its titular character, it should be dead, and yet ...
A hundred years after terrorising its first hapless victims, F.W. Murnau’s rebellious expressionist fever dream refuses to ...
Death and desire collide with seductive, shivering power in Robert Eggers ’ “ Nosferatu ,” a grandly Gothic reinterpretation ...
Nosferatu is a curious iteration of Bram Stoker’s legacy. A masterpiece of German expressionist cinema, FW Murnau’s unofficial 1922 adaptation of Dracula – almost destroyed after a lawsuit ...