Ok this looks kinda badass and great
Nosferatu Trailer
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Hopefully Lily-Rose Depp has taken some acting lessons in the last couple of years
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I generally like his stuff. Thought the Lighthouse and the Witch were great. The Northman was also good, but I think I wanted it to be better.
A high bar has been set for vampire movies featuring Willem Dafoe, with Shadow of the Vampire.
But...but...the original... (free on several of the free streaming services, Tubi, Crackle, etc)
I really like the original
Way to make me feel old! That movie was 50 years old when I first saw it in a history of cinematography class at Iowa State. Now it's over 100 years old.
Movies I remember screening in that class: Nosferatu, Seven Samurai, Potemkin, and Citizen Kane. And some really depressing Japanese movie about post war and prostitution, class was just bummed after watching it but can't for the life of me recall the movie name. Professor was so annoyed at us he stormed out.
The original is fantastic but so is Werner Herzog's version. I normally hate remakes and reboots but I might check this out.
Gate of Flesh?
Gate of Flesh - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Seijun Suzuki • 1964 • Japan Starring Joe Shishido, Yumiko Nogawa, Satoko Kasai In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post-World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance of order in a worl...
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Gate of Flesh?
Gate of Flesh - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Seijun Suzuki • 1964 • Japan Starring Joe Shishido, Yumiko Nogawa, Satoko Kasai In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post-World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance of order in a worl...
Don't think so. I seem to remember it being a story of a girl that her family either "sold" into prostitution or it was something she elected to do because she had no other options. Been 50 years ago and just have this vague impression of a really depressing movie. Does bug me I can't nail it down.
Life of Oharu?
Plot
The story opens on Oharu as an old woman in a temple, looking at a vast collection of statues of Arhats, whose faces remind her of the events of her life. As a young woman in a noble family, the daughter of a samurai, she is courted by a neighboring Lord's retainer, Katsunosuke, and runs away with him. They are caught, and as a result (due to their class difference) he is executed and her family banished from court. Oharu attempts suicide but fails. Sometime later, a messenger from the local Lord visits her village in search of a mistress for the Lord. After an exhaustive search, Oharu is found to meet every criterion and is sold to Lord Matsudaira with the hope she will bear him a son. She does, but then, with her purpose served, is sent home with minimal compensation to the dismay of her father, who has worked up quite a debt in the meantime. He sends her to be a courtesan in the pleasure district, but there, too, she fails and is again sent home.Oharu goes to serve the family of a woman who must hide the fact that she is bald from her husband. When Oharu's past as a courtesan becomes known, the woman's husband hopes to take advantage of her. His wife becomes jealous of Oharu and makes her chop off her hair, but Oharu retaliates, revealing the woman's secret. She again must leave—this time she marries a fan maker who is killed shortly after during a robbery. She attempts to become a nun, but Oharu is thrown out after being caught naked with a man seeking reimbursement for an unauthorized gift (it is made clear this is rape by Oharu's claims and distraught demeanor). She is thrown out of the temple, becomes a prostitute, but fails even at that.
The narrative finally returns to the opening scene, in the temple full of statues. Oharu collapses. When she awakens, her mother is by her bedside, having heard a rumor as to where Oharu was living. She learns that her father has died, and that so too has Lord Matsudaira. Oharu's son is now the young Lord, and is searching for his mother. Hoping to meet him and live in his palace, she returns to the Lord's house, only to be chastised for the "shameful" events of her life after her banishment from the palace so long ago. To keep her past a secret, she is to be imprisoned within the compounds, never to leave, but also never to be with her son. The young lord does deign to grant her the one-time privilege of looking upon him as he walks by. She chases after him through the compound, is herself pursued by his guards, and in the confusion, ends up escaping to pass the rest of her life as a wandering nun, begging for alms at every doorstep. [Wikipedia]
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It was a post WWII setting if IIRC. Or at least 20th century.
I may not be remembering it correctly. My own google lookies have come up with nothing that seems right.
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demoncore1031
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We're going tomorrow. We've been burned so badly by horrible movies getting good reviews from the professional critics that we wait until the audience scores come back. Last I checked, it was sitting at 7.9 on Metacritic, which is pretty darn good. Looking forward to it.
Saw it yesterday. I really enjoyed it as well. I think if you liked the original you will appreciate their take.
We went this afternoon. I really liked the story (I haven't seen the original), the acting, and the settings. All very fitting. I think it could have gone at a slightly faster pace and finished up in 1:45 rather than 2:15 or whatever it was. Seemed like some of the tension building stuff (like taking a minute to cross the room at times) was a bit on the side of boring (my wife didn't care for the movie overall due to that). I'd recommend it, as it is certainly well done.
