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

[Ron Koster]

At 05:42 PM 2/28/2008 +0100, Thomas Köhler wrote:

>Yes, I would generally say: keep a very close 

>eye on Masters of Cinema, especially if you're 

>interested in silents or Japanese classics. In 

>the last months alone they did outstanding discs 

>of Fritz Lang's "Frau im Mond", Pabst's "Diary 

>of a Lost Girl", and Murnau's "Tabu"


I already have the Kino versions of the first one 
(Lang), and the last one (Murnau), but now I wish 
I'd just waited and gotten the MoC versions! More money down the drain. ;)

I haven't seen the Pabst film, but just the other 
day I got the Criterion edition of his earlier 
"Pandora's Box" (also with Louise Brooks) in the 
mail -- haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but 
I *really* look forward to doing so! Plus it 
comes with a whole, second disc of bonus stuff, 
and a nice, thick book (or booklet) about the film.

Have you seen both films (Pandora's Box and Diary 
of a Lost Girl), perchance? I'm wondering how 
they compare, if one is decidedly better than the other.


>In the next months, they will release Murnau's 

>"Phantom" (a truly wonderful film in my view)


That's played a couple of times over here on the 
Turner Classic Movies channel (which very often 
plays classic old silent films on late Sunday 
nights) -- both times it was on, though, I forgot to set my VCR! D'oh... :/


>and even better, Dreyer's "Vampyr" (and if 

>you've ever seen the horrible US disc of this, 

>you'll know what the difference will be like).


I saw that on the TCM channel, too -- as you say, 
a lousy version. Indeed, that would be nice to see at better quality.


>And unlike Kino, they also preserve the original 

>German intertitles for these films! Nothing against Kino, though.


Yes and no. ;)


>I would assume that for those in the US, though, 

>the Euro/Dollar rate at the moment is quite 

>forbidding, especially because you have to pay for shipping as well.


Yeah, it's the overseas shipping that gets -- and 
then sometimes there's customs duty charges on 
top of that! :/  But for some of these films, it's *definitely* worth it.

You Europeans are very lucky that you're in... 
well, Europe! Overall, the quality of DVDs do 
seem to be *much* better than what's usually 
available over here (although sometimes the 
reverse can be the case, of course).

Ron ;)