Kinostart 15.04.04 Die Nacht der Zombies Dawn of the Dead Scope. USA 2004 Produktion: Strike/New Amsterdam Produzenten: Richard P. Rubinstein, Marc Abraham, Eric Newman, Michael D. Messina Regie: Zack Snyder Buch: James Gunn, nach dem Drehbuch von...

Werknotizen zu einem improvisierten Film. Von Vanessa Jopp Auf liebevolle und humorvolle Art wird sich der Film mit Ãberzeugungen und Ã"ngsten befassen und Beziehungen, Familien, Freundschaften und Affären sowie die immer wieder eingebetteten Phasen des Alleinseins durchleuchten. Die groÃen und kleinen Geschichten des...

[In Nosferatu-The Vampyre] Herzog tells the story with a certain irony (most salient in the deliberately archaizing mode of some of the performances) but without any intention of parody: he is asking us to take it in all seriousness. True, his source of inspiration was not Bram Stoker's Dracula but the first film rendering of it, F. W. Murnau's silent Nosferatu, the one occasion in which Stoker's tale yielded a great work of art…. Herzog is paying his respects to an old film he p...

Herzog has perhaps been assumed (not least by Herzog himself) to be such an original that he doesn't need to be referred to any tradition. And it may be perverse proof of that to find both Nosferatu and Woyzeck awkwardly digesting their given material, and Herzog with more determination than conviction adapting himself to alien dramatic traditions (in what might be seen as an attempt, ironically, to find himself a specifically Germanic home). Whether or not, by switching to adaptations, Herzog has ex...

It is to rescue Dracula from the defilements of high camp that Werner Herzog has … made his own Nosferatu. Herzog wants to restore Murnau's film to its rightful place in movie history, so he has remade the Murnau version scene by scene…. This is not to say that Herzog has no ideas of his own. Where his film departs from Murnau's, it is in the direction of naturalizing, even humanizing, the Dracula character. (p. 17) At the same time that he is trying to revive the Dracula legend,...