Birth (2004)

Max Schreck as Graf Orlok in "Nosferatu" (1922)

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Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

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.

Studio: Fine Line Features

Rating: R

Release Date: Oct 29, 2004

Running Time: 100 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Nicole Kidman, Danny Huston, Lauren Bacall, Anne Heche, Cameron Bright, Peter Stormare, Arliss Howard, Alison Elliott, Ted Levine, Cara Seymour

director: Jonathan Glazer

Birth

Birth Trailer

Anna is a young widow who is finally getting on with her life after the death of her husband, Sean. Now engaged to be married, Anna meets a ten-year-old boy who tells her he is Sean reincarnated. Though his story is both unsettling and absurd, Anna can't get the boy out of her mind. And much to the concern of her fiancée, her increased contact with him leads her to question the choices she has made in her life.

PETER TRAVERS - October 28, 2004

Birth is the second film from director and co-writer Jonathan Glazer, following his smashing 2002 debut, Sexy Beast. The delivery doesn't come easy. Glazer's reluctance to show what he really wants to emerge from this supernatural thriller can make you yearn to go in with forceps. Still, the best of what's onscreen is a mesmerizing mind-teaser. What the film is not is kiddie porn, despite some huffy "Well, I never!" reactions to a scene in the luxurious Manhattan apartment of Anna (Nicole…