Nosferatu With Radiohead: A Silents Synced Film

Part of Shadowbox’s Art House Cinema Pop-Up Oct 29 – Nov 4!

On the eve of what feels like the most momentous election of our lifetimes, we present a cinematic meditation on the origin story of Donald Trump. Not the physical man, but the Persona. The wrecking ball that invaded every part of our national reality for the last decade. How did Trump become Trump? The Donald’s relationship with Silents Synced pairs classic silent movies with epic rock music. Just in time for Halloween, F.W. Murnau’s silent expressionistic, black and white vampire masterpiece Nosferatu (1922) gets a new soundtrack in Radiohead’s Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001).

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which Stoker's heirs attempted to have destroyed! Luckily, it survives to this day, and has been remade a couple of times, first in 1979 by Werner Herzog, and later this year by Robert Eggers. It tells the story of a real estate agent sent to Transylvania to meet a new client of his firm, the creepy Count Orlok. With his iconic bald head and pointy ears, there may be something more to the good Count than meets the eye? Bloody mayhem ensues!

Two showings: 7 p.m. & 9:30 p.m.