Nosferatu the Vampyre
Anyone who saw Nosferatu and thought “this would be better in colour and with talking” should seek out this 1979 remake and get their head examined. Werner Herzog’s 1979 revamp […]
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Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
Happy-go-lucky estate agent Hutter (definitely not Harker for legal reasons) is sent to Transylvania in this unauthorised Dracula adaptation from 1922. Changing the names and moving the bloodsucking action from Whitby to […]
Run Lola Run
Lola (Franka Potente) has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 marks in this German triptych that shows three possible versions of the same scenario. One of the most instantly striking […]
The Threepenny Opera
This 1931 adaptation of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s German play follows Mack the Knife (Rudolf Forster), a kind of celebrity crook à la the Krays or Jared Kushner. The […]
Toni Erdmann
It was announced today that Jack Nicholson is coming out of retirement to star in a Hollywood remake of Toni Erdmann, also starring Kristen Wiig and produced by Adam ‘Anchorman‘ McKay. Maybe […]
Victoria
This German thriller takes place in the small hours in Berlin, and follows a young Spanish woman (Laia Costa) who hits it off with a local guy (Frederick Lau) – until things […]
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