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	Shadow of the Vampire Fan Reviews
		Two of the most notorious personalities to emerge from the original film, are its Director, FW Murnau, and its lead, Max Schreck, who took method acting to an altogether more intensive and alternative level.
		Murnau is very exacting, giving word-for-word direction (with no freedom or opportunity for improvisation from his actors).
		Where Schreck is, as far as both he and Murnau are concerned, vampiric and thus displays the attributes of that behaviour/lifesyle.
	www.auntiemomo.com /cakeordeath/shadowreview.html (1476 words)

	Prisma: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
		Murnau, Sohn eines Tuchfabrikanten, zog mit den Eltern von Bielefeld nach Kassel.
		Nach seinem Abitur immatrikulierte sich Murnau in Berlin, studierte bald in Heidelberg deutsche und französische Philologie, besuchte aber auch Vorleseungen in Kunst- und Literaturgeschichte und geriet bald in Künstlerkreise.
		Während seiner Internierung in in der Schweiz verfasste Murnau sein erstes Filmskript.
	www.prisma-online.de /tv/person.html?pid=friedrich_wilhelm_murnau (749 words)

	Shadow of the Vampire - Movie Preview
		I started to do some research on Murnau and I saw this amazing picture of him filming: all his crew were wearing lab coats and goggles.
		To move from seeing the film as a quasi-documentary to a story in which Murnau, the perfectionist, does indeed hire a real vampire for the role of Nosferatu, promising him the blood of the lead actress in return for keeping himself under control until the final scene - that requires a particular kind of imagination.
		But then Katz has apparently always had a thing for vampires: one of his earlier efforts was a preliminary draft of the script for Interview With the Vampire.
	www.preview-online.com /july_august00/feature_articles/shadowofthevampire/shadow2.html (0 words)

	Biographie: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1888-1931
		Murnau arbeitet in diesen Werken mit komödiantischen und kriminalistischen Elementen, um eine eigenständige dramaturgische und pointierte Bildsprache zu entwickeln.
		Murnau festigt seinen Ruf als einer der bedeutendsten Filmregisseure seiner Zeit mit der Ufa-Produktion "Tartüff".
		In der filmischen Umsetzung sexueller Freizügigkeit wird seine Sehnsucht deutlich, sich offen zu seiner Homosexualität bekennen zu können.
	www.dhm.de /lemo/html/biografien/MurnauFriedrichWilhelm (621 words)

	The truth about film-maker FW Murnau \| Features \| Guardian Unlimited Film
		Born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe, Murnau was by all accounts a perfectly decent, disciplined professional - a gay aesthete and self-doubting artist who saw plenty of action as a combat pilot in the first world war and subsequently segued into a career as a theatre director and propaganda editor.
		Murnau didn't film a narrative so much as let one happen while he documented the visual-emotional terrain around it, moving in single shots from room to room, from inside the hotel to the street, up and down stairs, and so on.
		Murnau was a million miles from the hollering, self-serving autocrat Malkovich portrays him as in Shadow of the Vampire.
	film.guardian.co.uk /features/featurepages/0,,428382,00.html (1516 words)

	Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
		FW Murnau began his film career under the tutelage of Max Reinhardt as an assistant director, after serving in the German army and air force during World War I. Murnau's first film was in 1919 entitled "The Blue Boy".
		Murnau's success in American, aside from "Sunrise (1927)", was disappointing and Murnau became frustrated with Fox and the way that Hollywood worked.
		Murnau's use of lighting, revolutionary cinematography and camera angles, and his ability to tell a compelling story without sound won him critical acclaim not only in his time, but also throughout the rest of history.
	www.angelfire.com /film/sunrise/fwmurnau.html (254 words)

	Books \| The stuff of dreams
		Murnau took advantage of this opportunity by creating a universal fable that, as an opening intertitle put it, could take place anywhere and at any time: his 1927 masterpiece, Sunrise.
		According to a poll of its critics in 1958, Murnau was the greatest of all film directors and Sunrise was his greatest film.
		Also striking is the embodiment of the couple's enraptured state as they sail home across the lake, when a passing raft with silhouetted figures dancing around a bonfire captures their wild and exalted bliss, and the Wife ecstatically rocks her head back and forth in time to the music.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4847614-110738,00.html (1086 words)

	City Girl
		The last of Murnau's three films in Hollywood, originally released in a butchered part-talkie version by the studio; happily the surviving print is silent and rather closer to the director's conception.
		A variation on the themes of his masterpiece Sunrise, it concerns a wheat farmer's son whose marriage to a girl from the city leads to conflict with his father.
		The studio-built city is a menacing prison, but Murnau's immaculate framing and expert lighting lend even the beautiful pastoral locations an intense bleakness, a mood deepened by the melancholy performances (Torrence is superb as the father).
	www.thecontext.com /docs/662.html (114 words)

	KUSP-FM, Santa Cruz - Fim Review from The Film Gang
		FW Murnau, unlike Eric von Stroheim, was famed as a silent film director less for his dedication to realism than for his obsession with the uncanny and preordained.
		Like Faust, Murnau has made a bargain with this undead devil, but Max is not patient enough to honor a bargain that requires the postponement of all gratification for the duration of the shoot.
		Murnau, though, speaking as if he were the voice of the studio system, responds, I'm loath to admit it myself, but the writer is still necessary.
	www.kusp.org /film/archive8.html (622 words)

	F. W. MURNAU
		Murnau's mother Otilie was the second wife of his father Heinrich Plumpe, the owner of a cloth-factory in the north-western part of Germany.
		Murnau's stage name refers to a small Bavarian town, where an important event of his life took place.
		Murnau had some other projects in mind that would have been located in the South Sea, too, as he seemed to be fallen in love with this exotic world.
	internettrash.com /users/murnau/murneng.htm (722 words)

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		Nosferatu, directed by FW Murnau in 1922, was the first telling of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" on film.
		This element remains in Murnau's film, but here Whitby becomes Wisborg and Harker is Thomas Hutter, the almost child-like husband of mournful Ellen, sent off to secure the deal with Dracula substitute Count Orlock by his greedy, almost possessed boss, Broker Knock.
		Murnau did not have copyright approval to use Bram Stoker's story as the basis for his silent movie.
	www.lycos.com /info/nosferatu--bram-stoker.html (518 words)

	Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror - Directed by F.W. Murnau
		Finally Murnau was offered a four year contract in Hollywood which saw the release of Sunrise in 1927, Four Devils in 1928 and City Girl in 1930.
		But Murnau was frustrated by the Hollywood system and the lack of control he now had over his artistry.
		So if necessity is the mother of invention then Murnau's contributions to film making were borne out of the limitations of the silent era.
	nosferatumovie.com /fw_murnau.html (0 words)

	RTÉ.ie Entertainment: Shadow Of The Vampire
		With many of the interior scenes already shot in Berlin, Murnau, producer Albin Grau (Kier) and crew decamp to Czechoslovakia where they will be met by Max Schreck (Dafoe), the actor who has been cast in the lead role.
		Murnau tells his colleagues that Schreck has trained in Russia under Stanislavsky, and that the actor has been 'in character' for weeks, researching the role in a rural castle.
		Brilliantly cast, Malkovich plays the visionary Murnau as a laudanum-loving obsessive, a man who promises his underlings eternal life onscreen but sells their souls to Schreck in the process.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2001/0208/vampire.html (405 words)

	Hong Kong celebrates work of master filmmaker Murnau
		A pioneer in filmmaking, German expressionist director Murnau created as early as the 1920s a unique film language with the use of light and dark contrast and visual effects.
		As well as screenings in the programme, "The Psychic Labyrinth of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau", 200 archival items including replicas from his movies, such as the scenery of the Street of Shadows from his film "Phantom" are now on display at the Exhibition Hall of the Hong Kong Film Archive.
		Murnau's work will be discussed in two seminars, both in Cantonese, on June 21 and July 5.
	www.info.gov.hk /gia/general/200306/18/0618149.htm (752 words)

	Images - F.W. Murnau: The Last Laugh and Faust
		Murnau strove for a carefully controlled brand of expressionism that he used to reflect the emotional state of the leading character.
		In part, Murnau achieves this mix thanks to the remarkably fluid camerawork of Karl Freund who freed the camera from its rigid base and allowed it to glide forward and around the action.
		Murnau's vision is limited almost solely to the doorman's collapse.
	www.imagesjournal.com /issue10/reviews/murnau/text.htm (1745 words)

	The Republic :: The childhood roots of fascism
		In Shadow of the Vampire, Murnau is portrayed as a visionary psychopath.
		We learn that Murnau discovered this monster in the Eastern European wilderness, and promised him the throat of the female lead in return for his co-operation.
		Murnau often wears pitch-fl goggles; if the eyes are the windows of the soul, then Murnau's is a bottomless pit.
	www.republic-news.org /archive/100-repub/100_nenonen.htm (1151 words)

	The silent and sound German Expressionist films of F.W. Murnau,
		Murnau mixes exceptional photography, startling special effects and a deliberately rich, nerve shattering, montage to create a masterpiece of horror.
		Her presence and the presence of a mysterious Count, previously accused of murder, causes great consternation among the denizens of the castle.
		Murnau explores their secrets and nightmares through a superb series of expressionistic dream and flashback sequences that offer a glimpse of what would come a year later in ‘Nosferatu’.
	www.nyfavideo.com /content/cat-MURNAU.htm (0 words)

	Web of Murnau
		riedrich Wilhelm Murnau is one of the most important filmmakers of the cinema's first thirty-five years.
		April 15th - Faust, 1926, directed by F.W. Murnau, and starring Emil Jannings and Gösta Ekman, with live piano accompaniment by David Drazin.
		Web of Murnau is a proud winner of A Very "Sheik" web site award.
	www.sloppyfilms.com /murnau (0 words)

	FW Murnau
		Probably the greatest director of the silent era, Murnau worked in many genres in both Germany and America, but his films are united by their stylistic brilliance and mood of romantic fatalism.
		He is best known popularly for Nosferatu, the screen's first (and finest) adaptation of Dracula; but his masterpiece, made in Hollywood, is Sunrise, a film of extraordinary technical assurance and deep humanity.
		Noted for his innovations with the moving camera, Murnau also displayed a precision of composition, skill with actors and visual sophistication unrivalled at the time and rarely equalled since.
	www.thecontext.com /docs/417.html (111 words)

	Shadow of the Vampire at AllExperts
		Murnau, the director, takes his cast and crew into a faraway place in order to shoot the film, while he keeps assuring them that everything will be fine.
		The person who is playing the part of the vampire Count Orlok, an obscure German theater performer called Max Schreck, is very professional, and in order to get fully involved in the story he will only appear in full makeup and character.
		Murnau is furious and has to threaten him, while reassuring his investors.
	en.allexperts.com /e/s/sh/shadow_of_the_vampire.htm (518 words)

	Classically Speaking: Promoting Classic Movies in a Jaded World!
		Seventy-five years after Murnau’s untimely death in 1931, the German master’s works are still among the most powerful of the silent cinema and among the more influential films ever put on celluloid.
		Murnau became the king of the subjective camera and a master of chiaroscuro (use of contrasting light and shade).
		Flaherty later left the project and Murnau finished it as a great romantic epic and tribute to traditional native life in the South Pacific before western ideas polluted it.
	classicallyspeaking.blogspot.com /2006/10/dont-knowfw-murnau.html (626 words)

	The F.W. Murnau Collection-DVD Box Set DVD - Kino on Video
		This new presentation of Murnau's classic is mastered from original German material recently made available to Kino and is the most complete version available.
		A fable of religious hypocrisy, in which a faithful wife (Lil Dagover) tries to convince her husband (Werner Krauss) that their morally superior guest, Tartuffe (Emil Jannings), is in fact a lecherous hypocrite with a taste for the grape.
		While the lovers' flight from judgement and the ultimate power of the tabu are reminiscent of Murnau's expressionist films, Tabu is all open air and sunlight -- the brilliant tropical light sparkles on the ocean and glistens on the beautiful young bodies of the native men and women.
	www.kino.com /video/item.php?product_id=638 (301 words)

	Untitled Document
		[Murnau comes to America] to put...subjective thought on the screen, to open up the mind, the heart, the soul.
		I could tell the assistant director was upset, and Murnau would be there too, so stiff, twirling his glass, and everybody was just tense and shy.
		Murnau [was] the first director I ever worked with who really knew what was going on when he started to move that camera.
	homepage.eircom.net /~backtomono/murnau/sunrise/themakingofsunrise.htm (1278 words)

	Nosferatu - The Classic Adaptation of Dracula - Review (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It announced the arrival of a breathtaking talent in the form of FW Murnau and one of the more influential movements in cinematic history.
		Murnau's knowledge of the craft is evident in his effective use of film techniques like superimposition, overexposition of film stock, fast motion, experimentation with shutter speeds and stop motion way ahead of their time.
		Nosferatu is a noteable exception in that Murnau shot in actual locations but the use of expressionistic lighting (sharp contrasts between light and dark, deep shadows etc.) is unmistakable.
	www.divx-plugin.com /reviews/nosferatu01.html (746 words)

	Shadow of the Vampire
		E Elias Merhinge's semi-fictionalised account of the making of FW Murnau's seminal 1922 silent vampire movie Nosferatu works on a rather bizarre premise, one that will divide the loyalties of fans of the late, great German Expressionist.
		Murnau shoots by night on location in Translyvania and feeds Schreck rat's blood with the promise of the neck of the movie's femme fatale, Greta Schroeder (McCormack), once the movie is completed.
		Murnau himself is portrayed as the real beast, a mad professor type willing to sacrifice flesh for art.
	www.ivenus.com /entertainment/films/reviews/TE-RW-review-shadowvampire-wk44.asp (342 words)

	FAUST (DVD) - Buy DVDs and PSPs from Digital Cranium (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Murnau's FAUST stars the inimitable Emil Jannings as Mephistopheles, to whom the hapless and aging Faust sells his soul for renewed youth as well as wealth and power.
		Based on Goethe's interpretation of the age old legend, Murnau merely uses the story as a starting point for an incredibly phantasmagoric vision of the struggle between good and evil.
		Beginning with a flourish, Murnau introduces Mephistopheles with one of the most famous sequences in film history, finding Jannings being birthed as a disgusting, primordial creature from the heavens and banished to the netherworld.
	www.digitalcranium.com /dvd/faust/faust-pid-49950.html (219 words)

	kamera.co.uk - film review - The Last Laugh directed by Director: FW Murnau - reviewed by Antonio ...
		Along with Sunrise, The Last Laugh is a fine example of the genius of FW Murnau.
		It was the symbol of power that drove millions of men to their deaths in the First World War and resulted in the crippling of a once strong nation.
		Moreover, Murnau acknowledges that as the century progresses, the nature of the uniform has changed, from the once powerful militaristic look, to the less flamboyant, but no less sinister business suit.
	www.kamera.co.uk /reviews_extra/the_last_laugh.php (520 words)

	Welcome to Horrorview!!!
		Warner Hezog's retelling of FW Murnau's take on the Dracula mythos has long been a fan-favorite, and Anchor Bay has re-released their long out-of-print set of Nosferatu at a much more attractive price without sacrificing any of the extras that made the original set such a completist's dream.
		Nosferatu is more of an homage to Murnau than a straight out remake.
		Nosferatu is one of the very best film versions of the story of Dracula, and never goes out of it's way to "improve" upon Murnau's classic original, instead opting to simply expand upon that film with the means available to his modern counterparts.
	www.horrorview.com /Nosferatu.htm (446 words)

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