Just in time for Halloween, come hear how legendary director F. W. Murnau’s horror classic Nosferatu sounded when it was first released in 1922. Unlike other silent film directors of the era, Murnau (Sunrise, Faust, The Last Laugh) shot this unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula on location, in the Carpathian mountains. He also made use of shadows and emerging techniques like negative exposure, stop-motion and low-angle camera positions, to give his sinister, taloned vampire Graf Orlok an altogether otherworldly presence on the big screen.
Tickets are $20 for members and $25 for the general public.
Ben Model Ben Model is one of the nation’s leading silent film accompanists. Over the past four decades, he has created and performed thousands of live scores for several hundred silent films at historic theaters, museums, film festivals and schools, carrying on a tradition he learned from silent film organist Lee Erwin (1919-2000). He is a resident film accompanist at the Museum of Modern Art (NY) and at the Library of Congress’ Packard Campus Theatre.
“There is pure expressionist inspiration in Murnau’s juxtaposition of the malign wolves and the terrified old women: a poetry of fear.” — Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
“This is it: ground zero, the birth of horror cinema.” — Tom Huddleston, Time Out
F.W. Murnau
Bram Stoker (based on the novel Dracula by), Henrik Galeen (freely adapted by)
Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schroeder
Germany
Kino Lorber