Starting today, an exciting event is coming to Grayslake - the Fifth Annual Lake County Film Festival. The festival begins today at the Libertyville Civic Center, 135 W. Church St., with a screening of F.W. Murnau’s “Nosferatu.”
Legions of people are fascinated by the art of movie-making, including the filmmakers themselves. It's no surprise, then, that there is a wealth of Möbius strip-like material of films-within-films that explore this cinematic ardor.
(2000) Starring: Willem Dafoe , John Malkovich Director: E. Elias Merhige Synopsis: The cast of Nosferatu begins to wonder about the star who's playing the titular vampire. Odd occurrences on the set suggest that he may be the real thing.
WHILE THERE seemed to be no new cinematic stories to tell about the concentration camps, Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky has come up with his Oscar-nominated The Counterfeiters . Based on Adolf Burger's history The Devil's Workshop , this drama tells of Operation Bernhard, the Nazis' plan to flood the Allies with counterfeit money, using slave labor in a concentration camp.
Vampires and television news - both create a form of life that is neither living or dead. I have to admit that after the first time I read Bram Stoker's Dracula it took me years to work up the nerve to re-read it. It was one of the most singly terrifying books I had read up until that time. In spite of its archaic language, and the almost absurd melodrama of the story, there was something about
Director E. Elias Merhige 's debut feature Begotten is a stark, expressionistic retelling of the creation myth that, upon its debut in 1991, was lauded by critics as diverse as Time 's Richard Corliss and Susan Sontag.
Tremble, cable: Apple has its sights on you. Tremble, Netflix: Silicon Valley's brightest is out to get you, too. The latest incarnation of Apple TV, a white box the size of a hardback book that connects to your TV, is an attractive alternative to the usual
"Are you familiar with the term 'meh'? That pretty much sums it up. Not bad enough to offend me, but not good enough to make me spend even five minutes thinking about it the next day."
Tremble, cable: Apple has its sights on you. Tremble, Netflix: Silicon Valley's brightest is out to get you, too. The latest incarnation of Apple TV, a white box the size of a hardback book that connects to your TV, is an attractive alternative to the usual ways we get our video content, even if it still has room for improvement.