Of all the legendary early horror films Carl Theodor Dreyer’s vampire nightmare was once the most difficult to appreciate — until Criterion’s restoration of a mostly intact, un-mutilated full cut. Dreyer creates his fantasy according to his own rules — this pallid, claustrophobic horror is closer to Ordet than it is Dracula or Nosferatu.
Vampyr
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 437
1932 / Color / 1:19 Movietone Ap. / 73 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date October 3, 2017 / 39.95
Starring: Julian West (Baron Nicolas De Gunzberg), Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz, Jan Hieronimko, Henriette Gérard.
Cinematography: Rudolph Maté
Art Direction: Hermann Warm
Film Editor: Tonka Taldy
Original Music: Wolfgang Zeller
Written by Carl Theodor Dreyer, Christen Jul from In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu
Produced by Carl Theodor Dreyer, Julian West
Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Vampyr is a tough row to hoe for horror fans, many of whom just...
Vampyr
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 437
1932 / Color / 1:19 Movietone Ap. / 73 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date October 3, 2017 / 39.95
Starring: Julian West (Baron Nicolas De Gunzberg), Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz, Jan Hieronimko, Henriette Gérard.
Cinematography: Rudolph Maté
Art Direction: Hermann Warm
Film Editor: Tonka Taldy
Original Music: Wolfgang Zeller
Written by Carl Theodor Dreyer, Christen Jul from In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu
Produced by Carl Theodor Dreyer, Julian West
Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Vampyr is a tough row to hoe for horror fans, many of whom just...
- 9/19/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Joakim is joined by Adam Gonet from The Art Shelf to discuss this spooky classic. Enjoy.
From Masters of Cinema:
The first sound-film by one of the greatest of all filmmakers, Vampyr offers a sensual immediacy that few, if any, works of cinema can claim to match. Legendary director Carl Theodor Dreyer leads the viewer, as though guided in a trance, through a realm akin to a waking-dream, a zone positioned somewhere between reality and the supernatural.
Traveller Allan Gray (arrestingly depicted by Julian West, aka the secretive real-life Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg) arrives at a countryside inn seemingly beckoned by haunted forces. His growing acquaintance with the family who reside there soon opens up a network of uncanny associations between the dead and the living, of ghostly lore and demonology, which pull Gray ever deeper into an unsettling, and upsetting, mystery. At its core: troubled Gisèle, chaste daughter and sexual incarnation,...
From Masters of Cinema:
The first sound-film by one of the greatest of all filmmakers, Vampyr offers a sensual immediacy that few, if any, works of cinema can claim to match. Legendary director Carl Theodor Dreyer leads the viewer, as though guided in a trance, through a realm akin to a waking-dream, a zone positioned somewhere between reality and the supernatural.
Traveller Allan Gray (arrestingly depicted by Julian West, aka the secretive real-life Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg) arrives at a countryside inn seemingly beckoned by haunted forces. His growing acquaintance with the family who reside there soon opens up a network of uncanny associations between the dead and the living, of ghostly lore and demonology, which pull Gray ever deeper into an unsettling, and upsetting, mystery. At its core: troubled Gisèle, chaste daughter and sexual incarnation,...
- 2/22/2017
- by Tom Jennings
- CriterionCast
Chicago – Tom Hanks is using his golden years as a vehicle to stretch his performance skills, and his role as a sort of “Death of a Salesman” spin in “A Hologram for the King” gives him an opportunity to keep stretching. The stylish film floats within the focus on his character, and he delivers.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Based on a Dave Eggers novel, “A Hologram for the King” has a lot going on, as Hanks portrays a character with one last shot at making the sale in the oddball Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Director Tom Tykwer (“Cloud Atlas”) adds some European-style visuals to the story, and the whole things works because the blend is right. Hanks handles the path of the role through a nice progression, and uses his world weariness as an older actor effectively. The story peters out a bit towards the end, but in general the movie is entertaining,...
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Based on a Dave Eggers novel, “A Hologram for the King” has a lot going on, as Hanks portrays a character with one last shot at making the sale in the oddball Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Director Tom Tykwer (“Cloud Atlas”) adds some European-style visuals to the story, and the whole things works because the blend is right. Hanks handles the path of the role through a nice progression, and uses his world weariness as an older actor effectively. The story peters out a bit towards the end, but in general the movie is entertaining,...
- 4/26/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Welcome back for another installment from Brady Riann, Moviefone's teenage correspondent. You'll get reviews and insights into the world of film -- from a teenage perspective.
Halloween is here! And who doesn't look forward to this time of year? Kids get to roll in mounds of candy, teens have parties generally based on making bad decisions, and parents get to see the smiles on young children's faces -- and deal with their sugar highs later (okay, so win/lose). October is an absolute blast because it focuses on one of movies' most prominent genres: horror! It's the best time of year for fans of all kinds of movies to absorb as much creepy crawling craziness as they can handle.
Everybody loves a good scare, but sometimes the pile of garbage gets too high to sift through -- so let's do it together. The following titles are two of my favorite...
Halloween is here! And who doesn't look forward to this time of year? Kids get to roll in mounds of candy, teens have parties generally based on making bad decisions, and parents get to see the smiles on young children's faces -- and deal with their sugar highs later (okay, so win/lose). October is an absolute blast because it focuses on one of movies' most prominent genres: horror! It's the best time of year for fans of all kinds of movies to absorb as much creepy crawling craziness as they can handle.
Everybody loves a good scare, but sometimes the pile of garbage gets too high to sift through -- so let's do it together. The following titles are two of my favorite...
- 10/30/2013
- by Brady Riann
- Moviefone
It's a given that we sometimes wonder about the what-ifs and the might have beens when it comes to our favorite pop-culture stars who left us too soon. It felt like we had only seen the beginning of ferocious talents like Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse and River Phoenix. South African investment management company Allan Gray is banking on that in their new advertisement for its long-term investing offerings. They company has imagined what the life of Rebel Without a Cause actor James Dean might have been like had he not crashed his Porsche 550 Spyder on that fateful day in 1955. We see Dean through the ages racing cars, walking hand in hand with his family, receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award, and offering his support in a Third World country...
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- 5/22/2013
- by Alison Nastasi
- Movies.com
As our showcase of early horror classics continues, we move out of the silent era and into the early 1930s for this German/French production from legendary filmmaker Carl Theodor Dryer. A Danish director best known for his 1928 classic The Passion of Joan of Arc, Dreyer caught major critical backlash for his follow-up Vampyr (also his first sound film), due to its unconventional story structure and abstract, dreamlike visuals. Thankfully, Vampyr went on to become a cult classic, which is still being screened today; one of the coolest of these revivals took place last October at San Francisco's Silent Movie Theatre, with a new live score composed by Steven Severin of Siouxsie and the Banshees and featuring FEARnet fave artist Jill Tracy (read more about it in this interview). Loosely based on two short stories by J. Sheridan Le Fanu – whose writings have inspired many iconic horror films – Vampyr follows...
- 4/15/2013
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
"Alice" is the Vancouver-lensed Syfy mini-series, updating the classic "Alice In Wonderland" story.
Starring Toronto actress Caterina Scorsone as 'Alice', a stranger in a city of twisted towers and casinos built out of playing cards, under the rule of the 'Queen of Hearts' (Kathy Bates), the show is from the same production team as "The Wizard Of Oz" update "Tin Man".
Cast includes Philip Winchester as 'Jack Chase', Allan Gray as 'White Rabbit', Colm Meaney as the 'King of Hearts', Andrew Lee Potts as 'Hatter', Tim Curry as 'Dodo', Matt Frewer as the 'White Knight', Harry Dean Stanton as 'Caterpillar', Alessandro Juliani as '9 of Clubs', Timothy Webber as Carpenter, Alex Diakun as 'Ratcatcher' and Eugene Lipinski as 'Doctors Dee' and 'Dum'..
"Alice" premieres on Syfy, December 6, 2009...
Starring Toronto actress Caterina Scorsone as 'Alice', a stranger in a city of twisted towers and casinos built out of playing cards, under the rule of the 'Queen of Hearts' (Kathy Bates), the show is from the same production team as "The Wizard Of Oz" update "Tin Man".
Cast includes Philip Winchester as 'Jack Chase', Allan Gray as 'White Rabbit', Colm Meaney as the 'King of Hearts', Andrew Lee Potts as 'Hatter', Tim Curry as 'Dodo', Matt Frewer as the 'White Knight', Harry Dean Stanton as 'Caterpillar', Alessandro Juliani as '9 of Clubs', Timothy Webber as Carpenter, Alex Diakun as 'Ratcatcher' and Eugene Lipinski as 'Doctors Dee' and 'Dum'..
"Alice" premieres on Syfy, December 6, 2009...
- 12/5/2009
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
"Alice" is the Vancouver-lensed Syfy mini-series, updating the classic "Alice In Wonderland" story.
Starring Caterina Scorsone as 'Alice', a stranger in a city of twisted towers and casinos built out of playing cards, under the rule of the 'Queen of Hearts' (Kathy Bates), the show is from the same production team as "The Wizard Of Oz" update "Tin Man".
Cast includes Philip Winchester as 'Jack Chase', Allan Gray as 'White Rabbit', Colm Meaney as the 'King of Hearts', Andrew Lee Potts as 'Hatter', Tim Curry as 'Dodo', Matt Frewer as the 'White Knight', Harry Dean Stanton as 'Caterpillar', Alessandro Juliani as '9 of Clubs', Timothy Webber as Carpenter, Alex Diakun as 'Ratcatcher' and Eugene Lipinski as 'Doctors Dee' and 'Dum'..
"Alice" premieres on Syfy, December 2009...
Starring Caterina Scorsone as 'Alice', a stranger in a city of twisted towers and casinos built out of playing cards, under the rule of the 'Queen of Hearts' (Kathy Bates), the show is from the same production team as "The Wizard Of Oz" update "Tin Man".
Cast includes Philip Winchester as 'Jack Chase', Allan Gray as 'White Rabbit', Colm Meaney as the 'King of Hearts', Andrew Lee Potts as 'Hatter', Tim Curry as 'Dodo', Matt Frewer as the 'White Knight', Harry Dean Stanton as 'Caterpillar', Alessandro Juliani as '9 of Clubs', Timothy Webber as Carpenter, Alex Diakun as 'Ratcatcher' and Eugene Lipinski as 'Doctors Dee' and 'Dum'..
"Alice" premieres on Syfy, December 2009...
- 12/3/2009
- by SneakPeek.Ca
- SneakPeek
According to VancouverFilm.Net, Alice is the Vancouver-lensed Syfy mini-series, updating the classic "Alice In Wonderland" story, starring Caterina Scorsone as 'Alice', a stranger in a city of twisted towers and casinos built out of playing cards, under the rule of the 'Queen of Hearts' (Kathy Bates). The show is from the same production team as last year's "Wizard Of Oz" update Tin Man. Alice Cast includes Philip Winchester as 'Jack Chase', Allan Gray as 'White Rabbit', Colm Meaney as the 'King of Hearts', Andrew Lee Potts as 'Hatter', Tim Curry as 'Dodo', Matt Frewer as the 'White Knight', Harry Dean Stanton as 'Caterpillar', Alessandro Juliani as '9 of Clubs', Timothy Webber as Carpenter, Alex Diakun as 'Ratcatcher' and Eugene Lipinski as 'Doctors Dee' and 'Dum'.. Alice premieres on Syfy this December. Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek Alice...
- 11/20/2009
- HollywoodNorthReport.com
It has been almost fifty four years since actor James Dean (Rebel Without a Cause) died in a car crash. Many have speculated what Dean could have accomplished if he didn't leave us at the age of twenty four. Now, Allan Gray - a South African long-term investment firm - has put together a commercial which assumes that Dean would have gone on to direct films, protest the Vietnam war, and do charity work. While the commercial is put-together beautifully, it is strange to see Dean's family let some investment firm use the legendary actor's name and image in their ads. I guess it's not much worse than Elvis' "Viva Las Vegas" song being used in a Viagra commercial where the words have been changed to "Viva Viagra." Check out the James Dean commercial below. Video: If you cannot see the player, click here.
- 9/24/2009
- WorstPreviews.com
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