Jefferson in Paris (1995)

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: Touchstone Pictures

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: Jan 1, 1995

Running Time: 144 mins.

Additional Notes: dialogue French and English

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Nick Nolte, Greta Scacchi, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Simon Callow, Seth Gilliam, James Earl Jones, Michael Lonsdale, Gwyneth Paltrow, Estelle Eonnet, Thandie Newton

director: James Ivory, Hugues DeLaugardiere

Set just prior to the French Revolution, the story revolves around Thomas Jefferson, then US ambassador to France, and his relationship with Maria Cosway, the unhappy wife of an unfaithful husband.

December 8, 2000

After a literate and entertaining roll (A Room With a View, Howards End, The Remains of the Day), the team of producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory and writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala drops the ball with this droopy, snail-paced prigs-in-wigs movie. It doesn't help that Nick Nolte is such a lox as Thomas Jefferson. Jhabvala's script, her first period film not based on a book, catches the third-president-to-be during the time he served as minister to France (1784 to 1789) and soaked up the…