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Films

Nosferatu

What dark secrets can vampires reveal to us about German Romanticism? Behind the rows of screaming teenagers sits Scott O’Reilly, with a bag of popcorn and the collected works of Friedrich Schelling.

Cinema, the American film critic Roger Ebert once wrote, is not a particularly good medium for expressing philosophical ideas. As much as I admire Mr Ebert’s many insightful reviews I would have to disagree with him on this point. Take, for instance, F.W. Murnau’s silent classic Nosferatu: a Symphony of Horror (1922), the first cinematic adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula.

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