Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror (1922)
Directed by F.W. Murnau

Audio/Visual: silent film, b&w
Runtime: 82 mins
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Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (”A Symphony of Horrors” in German) is a German Expressionist film originally shot in 1922 by F.W. Murnau. He had wanted to film a version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, but his studio was unable to obtain the rights to the story. Murnau decided to film his own version and made only slight changes to the story. The resultant movie has many similarities to Stoker’s original tale.

“Dracula” became “Nosferatu” and the names of the characters changed, with Count Dracula changed to Count Orlok. The role of the vampire was played by Max Schreck. Other major actors in the film were: Gustave Von Wagenheim, Greta Schroeder, Alexander Granach

Stoker’s estate sued for copyright infringement and won. The court ordered all existing prints of Nosferatu destroyed, but a number of copies of the film had already been distributed around the world. These prints were then copied over the years, resulting in Nosferatu gaining a reputation as one of the greatest movie depictions of the vampire legend.

This was the first, and last, film of the production company Prana-Film GmbH. With all prints and negatives ordered destroyed they declared bankruptcy rather than pay compensation to Florence Stoker, Bram Stoker’s widow.

With the influence of producer and production designer, Albin Grau, the film established one of two main lines of vampire depiction in movies. The “Nosferatu-type” is a living corpse with rodent features (especially elongated fingernails and incisors), is associated with rats and plague and can only be defeated by a virgin sacrifice; he is neither charming nor erotic but totally repugnant. The victims usually die and are not turned into vampires themselves.

The more common other line is the “Dracula-type” (established by Lugosi and perpetuated by Lee), a charming aristocrat adept at seduction and turning his victims into new vampires.

Parts of the film allegedly showing Transylvania were filmed in Slovakia, e.g. Nosferatu’s castle is the Orava castle in northern Slovakia.

Murnau’s Nosferatu is in the public domain, and copies of the movie are widely available on video — usually as poorly transferred, faded, scratched video copies that are often scorned by enthusiasts. However, pristine restored editions of the film have also been made available, and are also readily accessible to the public.

Contrary to popular opinion, the word “nosferatu” does not mean “vampire”, “undead”, or anything else like that. The term originally came from the old Slavonic word “nosufur-atu”, which itself was derived from the Greek “nosophoros”. “Nosophoros”, in the original Greek, stands for “plague carrier”. This derviation makes sense when one considers that amongst western European nations, vampires were regarded as the carriers of many diseases. — wikipedia

Cast and Crew:

Directed by F.W. Murnau
Screenplay by Henrik Galeen, After the novel by Bram Stoker
Costume Design by Albin Grau
Produced by Enrico Dieckmann and Albin Grau
Art Direction by Albin Grau

Principal Cast in order of appearance with their Nosferatu character names and the original Bram Stoker names.

Greta Schroeder …. Ellen Hutter (Mina Harker)
Gustav von Wangenheim …. Hutter (Jonathan Harker)
Alexander Granach …. Knock (Renfield)
Ruth Landshoff …. Lucy Westrenka
G.H. Schell …. Westrenka
Guido Herzfeld …. Innkeeper
Max Schreck …. Graf Orlok/Dracula
John Gottowt …. Professor Bulwer (Van Helsing)
Max Nemetz …. Captain
Wolfgang Heinz …. First mate
Karl Etlinger …. Sailor
Albert Venohr …. Sailor
Heinrich Witte …. Sailor
Hardy von Francois …. Doctor in Hospital
Gustav Botz …. Dr. Sievers, Town Doctor

Additional Reading: Six degrees of Nosferatu

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Radio Play: 1984
A 1949 NBC radio adaptation of George Orwell’s classic
Starring David Niven

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Originally broadcasted as programme number 55 on August 27, 1949 at 9 p.m. as a one-hour production over the N.B.C. radio network as part of the N.B.C. University Theater, which adapted the world’s great novels for broadcast. –wikipedia

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Joni Mitchell Interviewed by Morrissey
L.A. - October 16, 1996

The 6 March 1997 edition of American magazine Rolling Stone featured an interview of Joni Mitchell by Morrissey. The audio of this interview was featured on a promotional cd (PRO-CD-8610) distributed around with the release of her “Hits and Misses” album.

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From the Rolling Stone feature:
Arriving at the Los Angeles home where this historic chat takes place, I try to offer Morrissey - our post-punk poet of misery - my two pence about potential questions for Joni Mitchell, one of the few popular artists who actually deserve the artist part of that tag. I suggest a discussion on their shared reputation for exploring downbeat themes - in other words: “Who’s more blue?” “Why have a discussion?” Morrissey asks promisingly, “Why not a fight?”

As it happens, there were no fights, though, true to form, Morrissey did delicately chide Mitchell for smoking and eating meat - this is the man, after all, who once titled a Smiths album Meat is Murder. And, of course, he ignored most of my suggestions and even started off by bonding with Mitchell - who was promoting her new Hits and Misses anthologies - at our expense by rubbing a little salt into old critical wounds. We expected nothing less. –David Wild

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Confucius, Lao Tzu and Chinese Philosophy (The World of Philosophy)
by Crispin Sartwell, Lynn Redgrave (Narrator)

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Publisher: Knowledge Products (1997)
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China’s two greatest philosophers Confucius and Lao Tzu were intensely interested in how we should live and how a good society is to be governed. Their wisdom has profoundly shaped Eastern cultures over the centuries. Westerners are only now beginning to understand the central importance of the tradition and community emphasized in Chinese thought for over two thousand years.

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The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
By Sogyal Rinpoche

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Narrated by Sogyal Rinpoche, Lisa Brewer, Charles Tart, and Michael Toms

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Chöd: Cutting through Dualism
Performed by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche

Digitally recorded sept. 1992, Tuscany, Italy.
Amiata Records AMT193

Traditional Tibetan ritual music performed by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche.

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Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London (1967)
Directed by Peter Whitehead

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Peter Whitehead’s 1967 documentary of London scene in the swinging-60’s is a visual treat for Mod enthusiasts everywhere. Featuring a who’s-who of the scene, Tonight Let’s All Make Love In London is a visual patchwork of 60’s culture, seen through the eyes of the people leading it. Mick Jagger, Michael Caine, Vanessa Redgrave, Allen Ginsberg, and Julie Christie are all here, alongside counter-culture artists and other musicians who helped shape their generation and future ones to come. Most of the musical content comes in the form of extremely rare concert footage and inside studio recording sessions, while other segments include candid interviews, strange political demonstration footage, and even a segment on the radical art of body painting! Yes, politics and sex are on the palette here as the psychedelic soundtrack from a very young Pink Floyd, swirls and pushes the film on towards the climax of it’s brisk 70 minute running time. Languishing in distribution limbo for too long, Tonight Let’s All Make Love In London is a fitting testimonial to the changing times in the mid-60’s and one that should be able to live on in the years to come for the young and old to look back on and enjoy. –Jeremy Wheeler

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GPod Radio

15 May 2005
Show #2 Part 2

Joseph Matheny interviews his favourite whackos.

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t. Winter-Damon: Author of Duet for the Devil and The Forbidden Gospels of Man Cruel talks about the Zodiac Killer and Hannibal Lecter as a food critic.

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