Werner Herzog does something remarkable in Nosferatu the Vampire, the near-perfect remake of the German Expressionist masterpiece, Nosferatu. Instead of reworking the story to serve his ego or updating the tone or themes for modern audiences, Herzog instead crafts a stunning companion piece to the original film, leveraging dialogue and musical motifs that were unavailable to F.W. Murnau and team during the silent era of the first film’s release to provide greater depth to the original film’s characters, with particular attention…
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Nosferatu 1922
While there is little evidence to suggest that the creative team behind the German horror masterpiece Nosferatu was directly influenced by Sigmund Freud, it is ironic that the English translation of Freud’s seminal work, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, was published in 1922, the same year of this now-classic film’s release. Besides the film and the book’s temporal synchronicity, the irony deepens as Nosferatu and Beyond the Pleasure Principle share thematic undercurrents that echo the psychological nuances of the post-World War…
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Flow 2024
Mesmerizing, captivating, and utterly Immersive, Latvian best-animated feature Flow distinguishes itself from its domestic counterparts (and competition in the Oscar race) with a delightfully compelling narrative that dares not to simply anthropomorphize its animal cast, exchanging potty humor and cheap jokes for genuine verisimilitude and pathos.
Instead, absent dialogue, the film relies on a keenly self-assured brand of visual storytelling in which the camera itself becomes a character and the filmmaker (Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis) allows his characters to truly…
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Top Gun: Maverick 2022
Less a proper movie than it is a nostalgic two-hour commercial for the military industrial complex wrapped up in a vanity project to end all vanity projects, Top Gun: Maverick thrills in spots and is overall entertaining but suffers from terrible writing jammed with clunky exposition and mostly unearned emotional beats.
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Godzilla Minus One 2023
Thus far my favorite film of 2023, the near-perfect Godzilla: Minus One, a stunningly palpable, emotionally-wrenching, and yes, occasionally quite bleak prequel to the 1954 masterpiece does unfortunately drag in sections despite help from a phenomenal score, and the somber Underworld journey of our anti-hero protagonist, Shikishima, is difficult to watch for much of the film, but this rendition of the Big-G, though physically smaller than he’s appeared in previous Toho joints, is as viciously brutal as we’ve ever seen…
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