Cassandra's Dream (2008)

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.

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Rating: PG-13

Release Date: Jan 18, 2008

Running Time: 105 mins.

Country Of Origin: France

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Colin Farrell, Ewan McGregor, Tom Wilkinson, Hayley Atwell, Sally Hawkins, Mark Umbers, John Benfield, Peter-Hugo Daly, Clare Higgins, Ashley Madekwe

director: Woody Allen

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In contemporary London, two brothers are desperate to better their troubled lives. One is a chronic gambler in debt over his head, and the other is a young man in love with a beautiful actress he has recently met. Their lives gradually become entangled into a sinister situation with intense and unfortunate results.

Cassandra's Dream may be darker Woody Allen territory, but it's just as familiar--and just as mismatched with the distinctive cast.

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Woody Allen's neurotic-speak works wonders coming from a New Yorker, but coming from a Brit? Not so much. The British could very well be just as phobic as anyone else, but they are also repressed, and trying to force the neurosis out just doesn't ring as true. Nevertheless, Allen is bound and determined to film abroad these days and thus once again sets…

PETER TRAVERS - February 7, 2008

Even in middling form, Woody Allen still knows how to get a few licks in. Set in London, which energized his Match Point in 2005, Cassandra's Dream finds the Woodman mucking about in the moral quicksand of one of his best films, 1989's Crimes and Misdemeanors. Two Cockney brothers, Ian (Ewan McGregor) and Terry (Colin Farrell), are contemplating murder. Ian wants to dump the restaurant he runs with dear old dad and take off for Hollywood with wanna-be actress Angela (Hayley Atwell, a pale shadow…