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.
A potent melding of crime, action and psychological drama, this sharply turned epic is director Michael Mann's best L.A. story (easily superior to Collateral), also notable as Robert De Niro's last great role before he devoted himself to self-parody. With its softball analysis of De Niro and Al Pacino's extended onscreen coffee klatch, the bonus disc is mostly self-congratulatory flotsam and could've used a documentary on the real-life copycat heist Heat inspired.
PETER RELIC -
March 10, 2005
