Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror." This 1922 classic of cinema based on Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (but with names changed) directed by F.W. Murnau and starring Max Schrek in one of films most famous and frightening make-up jobs.
While working as a casting director, Jennifer Venditti came across a fifteen year-old sitting alone in a Maine high-school cafeteria. But she couldn't believe such a funny, hyper-articulate kid could go unnoticed, and decided to create her own film--a candid, fly-on-the-wall portrait of a teenager who, in Billy's own words, is "different in the mind."
I have to admit, my memories of high school are a bit fuzzy, but watching the subject of the documentary Billy the Kid (Zeitgeist Films) make his way through the world both made me feel fond nostalgia and triggered some…
