Nosferatu Double Feature - Before Robert Eggers, Let’s Discuss F.W. Murnau and Werner Herzog

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  • Before we sink our fangs into 'Nosferatu' this Christmas, it’s time to look back at F.W. Murnau’s 1922 classic and Werner Herzog’s loving homage from 1979.
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  • @peybak
    @peybak หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Hell yes! I never forget sitting one late night in the 90s, and Herzog's version came on TV. When I saw that first scene with the Mexican mummies, I knew I was up for a treat. The movie is mesmerizing to say the least. Can't wait to see Eggers' version.

    • @geekinwithJamesHancock
      @geekinwithJamesHancock  หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I felt the same way. The mummy intro perfectly sets the stage for what's to come. Rooting hard for the new movie to deliver.

  • @pierredupont1096
    @pierredupont1096 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Very enjoyable episode James, thanks for your work here.

    • @geekinwithJamesHancock
      @geekinwithJamesHancock  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks, Pierre! Fired up to see what the new movie is all about.

  • @jamesgumm2281
    @jamesgumm2281 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Both the Murnow and Herzog versions are go to comfort movies I watch at least once a year. I'm going to do my best to help find the version with the synth rock track!

    • @geekinwithJamesHancock
      @geekinwithJamesHancock  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It might be this version here but I need to listen to more to know for sure: th-cam.com/video/K0JhzxMQlBI/w-d-xo.html

    • @jamesgumm2281
      @jamesgumm2281 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@geekinwithJamesHancock - It certainly seems to check out listening along and reading the comments. Thanks for such an entertaining and insightful deep dive into these films, I've been following your channel for the better part of a decade!

  • @D1210
    @D1210 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    His shadow against the wall is up there with The priest bathed in the light of a street lamp in The Exorcist.

    • @geekinwithJamesHancock
      @geekinwithJamesHancock  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Good call! 100% agree.

    • @enterthebruce91
      @enterthebruce91 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@geekinwithJamesHancock I just wanted to chime in by saying that your enthusiasm for and knowledge of film is incredible, James! You're truly a connoisseur. All the best from the UK,
      Sean 👊🏽👍🏽

  • @AdrianMendoza23
    @AdrianMendoza23 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    F.W. Murnau and Werner Herzog's Nosferatu are great. I'm interested to see Eggers take on it. Thnx James.

    • @geekinwithJamesHancock
      @geekinwithJamesHancock  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'm rooting hard for Eggers to deliver something special. Could end up being the best movie of the Christmas season.

  • @hallking7441
    @hallking7441 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Nosferatu '79 is one of the best movies ever made.

    • @geekinwithJamesHancock
      @geekinwithJamesHancock  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wagner, Herzog and Vampires make a perfect combination.

  • @tom-vj9lz
    @tom-vj9lz หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I watched the 1922 one last December. Some guy and his guitar jammed over the whole movie. I haven't heard a sound sinc

    • @geekinwithJamesHancock
      @geekinwithJamesHancock  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Sounds like a very entertaining evening at the movies.

  • @SEAKPhotog
    @SEAKPhotog หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The soundtrack for Herzog's Nosferatu is breathtakingly perfect. Murnau's original is an absolute delight (and I'm not exactly a fan of silent films). Have you seen Haxan?
    You mentioned Shadow of the Vampire, one of my favorite Vampire movies. Have you done a Vampire movie ranking video? Maybe there are too many from too many eras tho. I suppose it could be broken down by era?🤔

    • @geekinwithJamesHancock
      @geekinwithJamesHancock  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Massive fan of Haxan. One of a kind movie. As far as vamps go, I did a livestream on the subject but I feel like I barely scratched the surface: th-cam.com/users/live8Net2_BkcYI?feature=share

  • @Kopers30
    @Kopers30 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Some of the best sound design in the history of film.

  • @spence5000
    @spence5000 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    First comment! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on these classic films. Can't wait for Eggers' version.

    • @geekinwithJamesHancock
      @geekinwithJamesHancock  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'm right there with you. The new film by Eggers is my most anticipated movie of the holiday season.

  • @Jay828__
    @Jay828__ หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks, that was a nice revisit.
    Both fantastic films.
    The one sheet for Herzog's film is classy and classic 🤌🏻

    • @geekinwithJamesHancock
      @geekinwithJamesHancock  หลายเดือนก่อน

      David Paladin knocked that poster design right out out of the park.

  • @DrDetfink
    @DrDetfink หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fangtastic! Nosferatu is film-making 101 in all its glory. Actually I have a soft spot for all the original Universal Studio monsters. It’s literal proof that you can tell a story without blowing $350M. I’m so curious to see what Eggers can do. I feel like it’s gonna flay my mind.

    • @geekinwithJamesHancock
      @geekinwithJamesHancock  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      We are all in desperate need of getting our minds flayed. Been way too long since I had my last flaying and I'm rooting hard for Eggers to deliver.

  • @squidboitoys
    @squidboitoys หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I’ve never seen Nosferatu before but I gotta say his one appearance in the Hash Slinging Slasher episode of SpongeBob has made me an Uber fan and I can’t wait to watch the new Movie!

    • @geekinwithJamesHancock
      @geekinwithJamesHancock  หลายเดือนก่อน

      lol, I missed that ep of SpongeBob but will definitely hunt it down.

    • @squidboitoys
      @squidboitoys หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@geekinwithJamesHancock S2EP16 it’s called “The Graveyard shift” it’s a top tier episode.

  • @Eggplantman21
    @Eggplantman21 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    NOS4A2 is now the funniest thing I've ever heard of.

    • @geekinwithJamesHancock
      @geekinwithJamesHancock  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Agreed. Sadly the show wasn't quite as clever as the title.

  • @OdinAesthetic
    @OdinAesthetic หลายเดือนก่อน

    Enjoyed this video greatly. Love your stuff james.

    • @geekinwithJamesHancock
      @geekinwithJamesHancock  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Many thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. More to come later this year once we see the new movie.

  • @jayxavier7357
    @jayxavier7357 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    08:00 The scene in The Mother and the Whore is due to the fact that, roughly at the time, Structuralism -- whose approach often involves positing dichotomies, and studying the relationship between them -- had had a huge impact on French film criticism and theory, not to mention literary and art theory/criticism more broadly.

    • @geekinwithJamesHancock
      @geekinwithJamesHancock  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The Mother and the Whore completely knocked me flat when I saw it at the Nuart in LA. I need to find a good copy for my library.

    • @jayxavier7357
      @jayxavier7357 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@geekinwithJamesHancock Awesome. In the city where I live, there was a complete Eustache retrospective. I also got to see his follow-up film to The Mother: Mes petites amoureuses. The two films -- to borrow the above image -- are as different from one another as night from day, but are also oddly complementary.

  • @briandhaze5906
    @briandhaze5906 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Sounds like you saw the version set to the music of Type O Negative. My favorite version, and one of my favorite bands.

    • @geekinwithJamesHancock
      @geekinwithJamesHancock  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Hell yeah. I'll look them up. I think I was 18 at the time but it was the perfect way to fall in love with the movie.

  • @furtherback6131
    @furtherback6131 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Godd*mn I need to find me a Hancock to date. All that geek energy, the cheeky boyish charm. Gimme gimme gimme!

    • @geekinwithJamesHancock
      @geekinwithJamesHancock  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lol, 'm flattered. I'll do my best to keep that energy flowing in future videos.

    • @furtherback6131
      @furtherback6131 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@geekinwithJamesHancock Haha I doubt it not, sir. Next time you're anywhere near the good city of Amsterdam I'll get my fix by buying you a beer ;) Rock on!

  • @eh7754
    @eh7754 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I had a Murnau version scored by the group Art Zoyd... It kinda fits your description.

  • @RobertJohnson-bj5lk
    @RobertJohnson-bj5lk หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I don’t mean to interrupt your classic movie review, but I finally watched the new version of “Road House”. I actually liked it. The first “Road House” movie was ultimately a comical parody of itself. The new version, not so much, except for Ewan McGreggor. Ewan’s character was an over the top parody. I think the new version tried to be more realistic, so it was different.

    • @geekinwithJamesHancock
      @geekinwithJamesHancock  หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      For me I need all the outrageous dialogue and Hall of Fame nudity by Julie Michaels or it just doesn't feel like 'Road House'. If they had called it Bouncer or anything else, I likely would have had no problem with it.

    • @RobertJohnson-bj5lk
      @RobertJohnson-bj5lk หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@geekinwithJamesHancock
      For me, the incredible classic rock covers by the Jeff Healey Band was the stand out best part of the original “Road House”.🎸

  • @batgurrl
    @batgurrl หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks James for this retro review. Back in the 70s college courses i took, those shots from Nosferatu were featured Unrelated, the German Director Leni Riefenstahl popped into my head. Since you mentioned Coppola’s Dracula the two most memorable things were the most bizarre Dracula via Gary Oldman and the worst foreign accent from an American actor was the awful Keanu Reves😇🦇

    • @geekinwithJamesHancock
      @geekinwithJamesHancock  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Keanu Reeves's accent in Dracula is a serious contender for worst English accent in the history of movies.

    • @batgurrl
      @batgurrl หลายเดือนก่อน

      ⁠@@geekinwithJamesHancockin any such list he always seams to land as the absolute worst. Seeing it as an adult on the big screen made the great scenes look even better and the ‘bad’ even worse☮️

  • @tomalakis2483
    @tomalakis2483 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Seek out the version with James Bernard's score, the composer of the Hammerfilm Draculas... highly recommended

  • @jayxavier7357
    @jayxavier7357 หลายเดือนก่อน

    03:10 On Faust, the great filmmaker-critic Eric Rohmer wrote a book on the film -- originally a PhD thesis -- written in 1972 and published in 1977. Sadly, it does not seem to have been translated into English.

    • @geekinwithJamesHancock
      @geekinwithJamesHancock  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Big fan of Rohmer. So many amazing movies across so many decades. Here's a link to a podcast I did on his Six Moral Tales: wrongreel.com/podcast/wr516-eric-rohmers-six-moral-tales/

    • @jayxavier7357
      @jayxavier7357 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@geekinwithJamesHancock Will be sure to check it out. Love that cycle of films.

  • @jeremypho498
    @jeremypho498 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    i think the version you are referring to with synth-like score is by Popa Vuul (im sure im mispronouncing name)

    • @geekinwithJamesHancock
      @geekinwithJamesHancock  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Many thanks! I'll hunt it down. Dying to hear it again.

    • @jeremypho498
      @jeremypho498 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@geekinwithJamesHancock Cool. So the composers name is POPA VUUL. Yeah when you said kind of synthy i knew it must be this one. I remember hearing it and thinking this sounds a little modern for the 20's? lol. You can find the OST playlist on tube here and i think one has some deleted cues. Keep up the great work!

    • @eh7754
      @eh7754 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's Popol Vuh.... They did many of Herzog's scores in the seventies and early eighties. To my knowledge they never scored Murnau's version.

  • @russfro
    @russfro หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I think Zinskaro by Vokal Ansambl Gordela is a really noteworthy piece of music in Herzog’s film:
    th-cam.com/video/zYho3Tuc09g/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Amu4m9tsZ4x6uTYD

    • @geekinwithJamesHancock
      @geekinwithJamesHancock  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Awe-inspiring music from one of my favorite scenes of the movie. Hopefully if I'm ever dying from the plague, I can face my demise with equal grace and charm.

  • @anthony7777
    @anthony7777 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Did you abandoned your podcast?

    • @geekinwithJamesHancock
      @geekinwithJamesHancock  หลายเดือนก่อน

      I retired from the audio version and will be doing my interviews here from now on: th-cam.com/video/DaooNobj6ac/w-d-xo.html

  • @enriquecabada8841
    @enriquecabada8841 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    klaus kinski is freaking crazy😂

    • @geekinwithJamesHancock
      @geekinwithJamesHancock  หลายเดือนก่อน

      His insanity is truly without equal in the history of movies.

  • @dinglbarry1275
    @dinglbarry1275 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Not a big fan of Werner Herzog, for no other reason than I think his movies almost unanimously suck. Everything I've seen of his has an out of touch feel to it. I could elaborate a lot more but I'll leave it at that. Apparently he's a pain in the arse as well, but that's not part of my equation as to why he bugs me as a film maker.

    • @geekinwithJamesHancock
      @geekinwithJamesHancock  หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'll forgiver all of the above just because I dig your handle, dinglebarry. Made me howl.