We’ve just begun to experience the first cooler days in awhile here in Nashville, and the drop in temperature has put me in mind of autumn and Halloween. It’s too early for aisles of orange and black in the grocery stores, but they’ve already turned their leaves. It’s too early for costume store ads, but I saw one yesterday. It’s too early for spooky blog posts, but why fight it?

Here’s a teaser for the dreadful posts I hope to come up with next month: 2014 marks the 35th anniversary of Werner Herzog’s remake of the F.W. Murnau classic Nosferatu. Not only does Herzog’s Nosferatu the Vampyre tip its hat to one of the earliest and greatest vampire films, and to the horror genre in general, it also attempts to create a link between the movies Herzog and his German peers were making in 1979 and the brilliant German cinema that was made before World War II and the rise of the Third Reich.

Here’s a great making-of documentary about the movie…

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Following up on my last post, here is a great link for those of you who’d like to know more about Werner Herzog, his films and ideas.

The South Bank Show was a UK arts television series that aired from 1978 through 2010. This episode aired in 1982 and features a young, dark haired Werner Herzog speaking about everything from standing stones to the importance of traveling by foot to the ideas that inform his first amazing films. Including interviews with Herzog’s first wife and German film pioneer Lotte Eisner, this program also offers plenty of footage from Fitzcarraldo, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Heart of Glass, Nosferatu, Signs of Life and more.

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