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Rooftop Films and the Devil
Music Ensemble Present
Nosferatu, A Symphony of
Horror
The Devil Music Ensemble perform an original live
score for the original (and best) Dracula film.
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Wednesday, october 31st, 2007
7:30 - First Screening
9:30 - Second Screening
Village East Cinema
181 2nd Avenue at 12th Street
New York, NY 10003
(212) 777-FILM
Tickets -$15.00 at the door or online
Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror
Join us on Halloween at Village East Cinema for a special screening of Nosferatu,
F.W. Murnau's masterful version of the Dracula story, accompanied by an orignal live score
performed by the Devil
Music Ensemble. The Devil Music Ensemble formed in Boston in 1999 and is
comprised of Brendon Wood, Jonah Rapino and Tim Nylander.
They have toured the world playing live soundtracks
for silent film, performing
in museums, theaters, performing arts centers, and college campuses. Many
of you saw violinist Jonah Rapino perform selections of battle music from the
documentary Darkon at
our screening at Automotive this past September.
No single description of the DME performance experience can accurately depict
this group's versatile and genre spanning capabilities. The DME, striving to
explore different sonic territory with every new project they undertake, keeps
audiences
surprised and coming back to hear and see whatever they are doing next. To hear
mp3’s or find out more about the DME go to www.devilmusic.org.
For those
who have not yet seen the film, Nosferatu is a German Expressionist
film
by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, starring Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok.
Its
original
German
title is
Nosferatu,
eine Symphonie des Grauens ("Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror"). The film, shot
in 1921 and released in 1922, was in essence an unauthorised adaptation of Bram
Stoker's Dracula, but with names and other details changed because the studio
could not obtain the rights to the novel (for instance, "vampire" became "Nosferatu",
and Count Dracula became Count Orlok).
Stoker's estate was furious at Murnau for using the Dracula concept without their
authorization,
but nonetheless, the film was immediately recognized to be a
masterpiece
and
it
quickly
became
the
model
for
all
future film portrayals of vampires. Schreck's performance is one of the greatest
in the history of silent cinema and his portrayal of Count Orlock strikes terror
in the hearts of movie-goers
to
this day.
So buy your tickets today and reserve a spot for this creepy, fascinating film and musical performance.
“The Devil Music Ensemble has established
itself as one of the primary
American
groups composing and performing scores for silent films, and can be spoken of
in
the same breath as groups like the Alloy Orchestra and the Tin Hat Trio.”
--Dylan Skolnick, Cinema Arts Centre
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