Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht ( W. Herzog, 1979)

One striking quality of the film is its beauty. Herzog s pictorial eye is not often enough credited. His films always upstage it with their themes. We are focused on what happens, and there are few beauty Look here at his control of the color palette, his offcenter compositions, of the dramatic counterpoint of light and dark. Here is a film that does honor to the seriousness of vampires. No, I don t believe in them. But if they were real, here is how they must