(Welcome to Year of the Vampire, a series examining the greatest, strangest, and sometimes overlooked vampire movies of all time in honor of “Nosferatu,” which turns 100 this year.)”Interview with the Vampire” begins with a spellbinding orchestration of the Latin burial chant “Libera Me,” sung by the American Boy Choir. Toward the end of the movie we see Brad Pitt’s undead interviewee, Louis, sitting in a darkened theater, watching scenes from F.W.
Murnau’s “Sunrise” and “Nosferatu” along with “Gone with the Wind” and “Superman.””I left the Old World, and came back to my America,” Louis narrates.
And this is America as he…The post Year of the Vampire: Interview With The Vampire Imbibed The Spirit Of A Lost Century appeared first on /Film.
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