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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2010 edited
    http://www.maintitles.net/reviews/nosfe … rors-1922/

    Time he got his own thread and this re-release is a good start for him. I hope that Silva in the months to come will release more of his material.
    Thomas
    listen to more classical music!
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2010
    A fine review, Tom!

    The only annoyance I have with this release is that it's not synchronized to any of the DVD versions out there (I've tried playing the film and running the CD simultaneously, but no luck... crazy )
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
  3. A good review, Tom. The last few weeks I've been sitting on the fence, wondering whether to get this or not. Your review may just have knocked me into the "get it" garden.

    BTW, wasn't the film entitled Nosferatu because "Dracula" was under copyright at the time? I think that this explains why the vampire looks so starkly different from Stoker's creation.
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2010
    I agree that it would take an editing job that I'm certainly not up to. I hope that Silva will release more of his material this year.
    Thomas smile
    listen to more classical music!
  5. Martijn wrote
    (I've tried playing the film and running the CD simultaneously, but no luck... crazy )

    Won't there be a problem between the running time of the music and the different playing speed of the film? I'm thinking of the current situation where US films are played at a slightly different speed to when it's shown in the UK. I think that the music fits with one but is 5-10% "out" by the time the film ends.
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2010
    FalkirkBairn wrote
    A good review, Tom. The last few weeks I've been sitting on the fence, wondering whether to get this or not. Your review may just have knocked me into the "get it" garden.

    BTW, wasn't the film entitled Nosferatu because "Dracula" was under copyright at the time? I think that this explains why the vampire looks so starkly different from Stoker's creation.


    When I did a little bit of research preparing for the review I didn't run across that information.

    Thomas smile
    listen to more classical music!
  7. sdtom wrote
    When I did a little bit of research preparing for the review I didn't run across that information.

    Thomas smile

    From Wikipedia:

    "Nosferatu was the first and only production of Prana Film...Grau had the idea to shoot a vampire film...Diekmann and Grau gave Henrik Galeen the task to write a screenplay inspired from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, despite Prana Film not having obtained the film rights..."

    "...[Nosferatu] was the first and last Prana Film; the company declared bankruptcy after Bram Stoker's estate, acting for his widow, Florence Stoker, sued for copyright infringement and won. The court ordered all existing prints of Nosferatu destroyed, but copies of the film had already been distributed around the world..."
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
  8. Martijn wrote
    A fine review, Tom!

    The only annoyance I have with this release is that it's not synchronized to any of the DVD versions out there (I've tried playing the film and running the CD simultaneously, but no luck... crazy )

    This restored version seems to have had Bernard's score laid over the visuals:

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nosferatu-Defin … amp;sr=8-1
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2010
    Nope, I actually have that version (the UK version that is), and it does not feature Bernard's score.
    Missed opportunity I'd say. slant

    And as it's the same version Bernard's work was actually written against, I really was hoping the CD and the DVD would match up, but alas... I'm sure there must be all sorts of very good explanations for that (most likely indeed film speeds, or even CD speeds! I am told minute differences have been observed between different brands of players...
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2010
    JAMES BERNARD
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2010
    That's whom we are talking about.
    Indeed.
    Yes.

    Quite.



    Rather.
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2010
    I was obviously too subtle

    JAMES BERNARD <--in CAPS PLEASE!
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2010
    By the time 1931 came around the copyright must have expired and not been renewed.
    listen to more classical music!
  14. sdtom wrote
    By the time 1931 came around the copyright must have expired and not been renewed.

    For the 1931 film Hollywood producer Carl Laemmle, Jr. acquired the novel's film rights so he could adapt the novel.
    The views expressed in this post are entirely my own and do not reflect the opinions of maintitles.net, or for that matter, anyone else. http://www.racksandtags.com/falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorsdtom
    • CommentTimeMar 18th 2010
    FalkirkBairn wrote
    sdtom wrote
    By the time 1931 came around the copyright must have expired and not been renewed.

    For the 1931 film Hollywood producer Carl Laemmle, Jr. acquired the novel's film rights so he could adapt the novel.


    He did as I read for $40,000.
    Thomas
    listen to more classical music!

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