[LEN-E] Nosferatu (The Ultimate Two-Disc Edition)

[Ron Koster]

At 06:30 PM 2/26/2008 +0100, Thomas Köhler wrote:

>The Kino edition is a  tremendous package, but 

>it is also available in Germany from Transit and 

>in the UK from Masters of Cinema. I would 

>definitely recommend the Masters of Cinema 

>version over the Kino, because you also get an 

>audio commentary, and even better, a highly 

>informative and gorgeous-looking 80-page book with it.


Oh, I'm so glad you mentioned that! Indeed, my 
experience with the Masters of Cinema series is 
that they are far superior to many (if not all) 
other versions -- and that goes for their version 
of Fanck's "The Holy Mountain", which not only 
includes the original German intertitles (in the 
old Fraktur typeface, with English subtitles, and 
unlike Kino's version which has all the 
intertitles completely replaced with "new" ones) 
but also comes with an extra disc with "The 
Wonderful, Horrible..." on it as well. The 
booklet that come with it is rather short, 
unfortunately, but that's still better than what 
Kino gives you (just a single sheet with the 
chapter listing on it, and that's about it).

I also picked up the Masters of Cinema version of 
Murnau's "Faust", which is also truly 
*phenomenal* in comparison with any other version 
out there -- so, indeed, thanks for mentioning 
that, because that's definitely the version of 
Nosferatu that I'll get! And nothing against 
Kino, of course, I think they're doing a 
wonderful job of making so many of these early, 
rare films available to a North American audience 
-- but all one needs is a region-free DVD player 
and, as they say, "the world is yours".

Ron ;)


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