Youtube Movie: Nosferatu

 Is this your wife? What a lovely throat!

Silent films are by definition not character-driven but rely on the power of image alone.
In 1922, when computer-generated imagery and bluescreens were terms still undefined, German director F. W. Murnau created the first vampire movie based on Bram Stoker's "Dracula" novel. His main tool to upset the audience's stomachs; modulation between shadow and light.
"Nosferatu" is a creature lurking in the dark, making people fear that for the sudden appearance of his imposing shadow alone.
Nowadays, given that you have seen horror movies like "The Exorcist" and "A Nightmare on Elm Street", Nosferatu will probably leave you apathetic with respect to your nightmares. But, you cannot at least gasp that the sight of a terrible blood-thirsty walking dead coming out of his coffin.

Watch the whole movie 

The Beast with Five Fingers

1928, horror writer W.F. Harvey creates the evil creature with the five fingernails in his book "The Beast with Five Fingers"
(Project Gutenberg free copy: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15143/15143-h/15143-h.htm#Beast).
Since then it has made numerous appearances in film.

"Filmography"

The Beast with Five Fingers (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038338/)



The Exterminating Angel (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056732/)

Doctor Terror's House of Horror (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059125/)

The Addams Family (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101272/)

The Hand (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082497/)

Evil Dead 2 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092991/)

Free youtube movie of the day: Life of Brian

Not the Messiah!

- I'm not the Messiah! Will you please listen? I am not the Messiah, do you understand? Honestly!
- Only the true Messiah denies His divinity.

Monty Python's (whole different post) "Life of Brian" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/) is a grand justification to the term "British humour". Countless memorable quotes, the funniest cast that could ever exist in a movie, but beware it's as politically incorrect as it gets (not for the weak-hearted)! 

Life of Brian (part 1/9)

Free youtube movie: Night of the Living Dead

Night of the Living Dead is a 1968 American independent black-and-white zombie film directed by George Romero.A true horror pioneer, it bridged the gap between the old style horror and the new.
Romero put the movie industry on notice with his graphic shots of blood, guts and gore.
It truly deserves the praise and acclaim that has been showered upon it over the past few decades. If ever a horror movie were a masterpiece, this one is it. An important milestone in cinematic history and proof of what independent filmmakers can do, Night of the Living Dead is the seminal zombie movie.

Ken Loach: A Great Director Makes A Difference

I bow not only in front of Ken Loach's films, but also in front of his disposition towards life. The director of "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" and "Sweet Sixteen" has always been consistent in his beliefs and his work. Most directors wouldn't even think about distributing their films for free and that is why Ken Loach is a rare exception. The director of social consiousness has uploaded many of his films on youtube, one of which is "Cathy come home" that resulted in the formation of the housing charity 'Shelter'.

Click here to tranfer to his channel

http://www.youtube.com/user/KenLoachFilms

Top Movie Vampires

1. Max Schreck, Nosferatu

The real deal?

2. Gary Oldman, Bram Stoker's Dracula

The charming one

3. Kirsten Dunst, Interview with a Vampire

Who's afraid of a pretty little girl?

4. Bela Lugosi, Dracula

Cult fang

5. Lina Leandersson, Let the Right One In

Can't choose your neigbours

6. Robert Pattinson, Twilight

Our guilty pleasure

Of course our list wouldn't be complete without...

7. Leslie Nielsen, Dracula Dead and Loving It

Free youtube movie of the day: Young Frankenstein

Mel Brooks knows good comedy*

"Young Frankenstein" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072431/) has been repeatedly voted as one of the "Funniest Films of All Times". Of course, you can never go wrong with cast such as Gene Wilder and Marty Feldman. If you haven't already, click below to watch this classic horror movie parody and find out what's the sweet mystery of life!



Young Frankenstein (part 1/10)

Free youtube movie of the day: Eraserhead

In my opinion, the best David Lynch movie out there. An expressionistic horror, which Kaufka himself would find too claustrophobic, this first attempt of the brilliant director demands to this day the audience's full notice and interpratation.

Eraserhead (part 1/9)

Free youtube movie of the day: A propos de Nice

A propos de Nice (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021576/) is a silent film directed in 1930 by the -25 year old then –French director Jean Vigo.
In the short duration of the film, Vigo captures with surrealism and humor the Borzois and tourists walking around Nice, France displaying their dresses and moving endlessly, so that they can emphasize their existence. Amazing are the scenes, showing the contradiction between the dancers and the statues. The instant opposite the eternal.

I would suggest watching it in mute in the link below.

À propos de Nice (part 1/2)

À propos de Nice (part 2)

Free youtube movie of the day: Heathers

Boy meets girl, girl hates schoolmates, boy decides to do something about it. An acidic comedy, where high school becomes a battlefield and the battle is won by any means.

Free youtube movie of the day

Having completed an extraordinary body of silent films in 1929, Fritz Lang entered the sound era with this bold masterwork, an expressionist thriller that captured the ugly mood of Germany just before the Nazis came to power, and was banned as soon as they took over.

Fritz Lang's films are marked by an uneasy tension between moral opposites: light and dark, innocence and evil, order and chaos.
M is often cited as the first and greatest of all psychological thriller. I think that this movie using an expressionist style to create a sense of panic, suspicions and shadows manages to always catch your breath.

Here is the available link with the movie subtitled in four different languages:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jewTfVC7XD4

Free youtube movie of the day: Adventureland

A feel-good movie staring Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1091722/

Adventureland (part 1/11)

Youtube movies of the day - 11/18

If you wanted a powerful, caustic performance in the '30s, William Powell was your man. Unable to find  "The Thin Man", where he portaits an alchoholic detective throwing witty lines at Myrna Loy's direction
on youtube, you can get a taste of his perfomance with the classic screwball comedy "My Man Godfrey".

My Man Godfrey (part 1/9)



The first two lines of "D.O.A" will nail you down in your chair until the catharsis of this '50s film noir.

D.O.A (part 1/8)

Υoutube movie of the day

Click on the youtube link bellow to watch the tv film "Cold Comfort Farm" based on a book by Stella Gibbons. It's a parody of the 19th century English literature themes, adapted by BBC (= a waranty that it's gonna be brilliant), with smart dialogues and spectacular cast icluding Sir Ian McKellen and Stephen Fry.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112701/

Cold Comfort Farm (part 1/10)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozhb3ytlyVg