Ooh, this is gonna make the boyfriend angry (since we've already got plans that night) - the Film Society of Lincoln Center is screening Werner Herzog's masterpiece Nosferatu this Wednesday (that's tomorrow!) night. Proving that remakes can be swell if done by geniuses, Herzog's Nosferatu stars Klaus Kinski as the vampire and an impossibly young and nubile Isabelle Adjani as Lucy.
If you know anything about the sordid history of the Dracula myth and its relationship with Nosferatu - that Bram Stoker's widow refused the rights to the novel to director of the original, F.W. Murnau, so the names were changed around a bit, you know that the "Lucy"
Adjani is playing here (a name which is attached to a completely seperate character in the book) is actually the "Mina" main-character of the novel, most recently (was there a Mina character in Van Helsing? I've blocked that entire mess out completely) brought to life by Winona Ryder in Francis Ford Coppola's delightful version. In Coppola's, the "Lucy" character was played most memorably by ex-Mrs. Jude Law, Sadie Frost, in some of the greatest costuming of the past 50 years. But then, that's what you get for having Eiko Ishioka as your costume designer. Anyway, phew.
What am I rambling about? I ought to be saving all this for Nathaniel's Vampire-Blog-A-Thon next week, haven't I?
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If you know anything about the sordid history of the Dracula myth and its relationship with Nosferatu - that Bram Stoker's widow refused the rights to the novel to director of the original, F.W. Murnau, so the names were changed around a bit, you know that the "Lucy"
Adjani is playing here (a name which is attached to a completely seperate character in the book) is actually the "Mina" main-character of the novel, most recently (was there a Mina character in Van Helsing? I've blocked that entire mess out completely) brought to life by Winona Ryder in Francis Ford Coppola's delightful version. In Coppola's, the "Lucy" character was played most memorably by ex-Mrs. Jude Law, Sadie Frost, in some of the greatest costuming of the past 50 years. But then, that's what you get for having Eiko Ishioka as your costume designer. Anyway, phew.What am I rambling about? I ought to be saving all this for Nathaniel's Vampire-Blog-A-Thon next week, haven't I?
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