In Love with Night
Nosferatu, 2024
F.W. Murnau was obsessed with the negative, the inverse, perversion of a “true” image to create an even truer one. His groundbreaking take on the Dracula story was subtitled “A Symphony of Horror.” A symphony: not just imagery, but seen music, heard images. A sensory melange from which there could be no escape, even in dreams.
“Greta [Schröder] came to m…
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