“My Heart is in Your Hand”: selfless Ellen Hutter (Greta Schröder) saves the world by offering her life’s blood to a visiting vampire in F. W. Murnau’s silent classic NOSFERATU.


place), and a glossary of the argot used in FREE ENTER­PRISE, called “Ebionics” (ditto). Other supplements include


14 deleted scenes totaling over 30m, including a wonderful scene toward the end of the film in which Shatner tells Robert and Mark a (real) story of how he dis­ covered he was not Captain Kirk, and 8m 19s of screen tests. A 2m 23s theatrical trailer is in­ cluded, as well as a slightly dif­ ferent 2m 47s trailer, along with a 30s TV spot and a 60s TV spot. The crown jewel of the supple­ ments, however, is the 3m 30s music video of “No Tears for Caesar,” a rap version of Marc Antony’s famous speech from JULIUS CAESAR (“Friends, Ro­ mans, countrymen, lend me your ears”), with The Artist Formerly Known as Shatner and The Rated R—it’s priceless. Et tu, Brute! —Rebecca & Sam Umland


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NOSFERATU


1922, Image Entertainment #!D0277DSDVD, DD5.0/DD2.0/ MA/+, $24.99, 80m 45s, DVD-A


At the start of 2001, Image


Entertainment quietly slipped onto the market an upgraded NOSFERATU DVD, finally grant­ ing director F.W. Murnau name- above-the-title status. Nearly identical at a glance to Image’s 1997 DVD release (which had been transferred from the same source as the Kino on Video VHS tape and Image’s 1992 laser disc), the new DVD has not only been given an eye-pleasing de­ sign overhaul (the picture disc features mad real estate agent Knock, and options from the animated main menu screen are selectable with an icon in the shape of Graf Orlock’s bald head) and additional supplements— but the materials used in the


transfer are cleaner (lacking reel change marks and major blem­ ishes) and more vivid in tinting. The intertitles have been treated to a fresh translation and the disc even contains a bit of additional footage. These extra frames con­ sist only of two shots of the Carpathian mountains (at 10m 3s), but it’s nice to see what THE HAUNTED SCREEN author (and Murnau biographer) Lotte Eisner was going on about when she referenced “the grisaille of the arid hills around the vampire’s castle.” It is now common knowledge


among silent film enthusiasts that the intertitles commonly associated (at least in the United States) with NOSFERATU had little to do with Murnau or sce­ narist Henrik Galeen, but were English translations (by New York’s Museum of Modern Art) from a French source. The goal

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