CAMBRIDGE-FILM-FESTIVAL-REVIEW
In this issue of TAKE ONE we muse on the mise en abyme in Bigas Luna’s Catalan horror ANGUISH; you can read an interview with Gareth Jones, who offers “a whiff of incest” in his “love-quadrangle” drama DELIGHT. You can enjoy reviews from Cambridge’s Young Critics and we take an in-depth look at NOSFERATU, which screens on Saturday with live piano accompaniment. Since its 1922 release, F.W. Murnau’s NOSFERATU has been subject to as much mythology and folklore as the original vampire legend itself. Illegally and ‘freely’ based on Bram Stoker’s book, Dracula, Stoker’s widow Florence, incensed by financial motivation, won a court order to have the prints and negatives of the film destroyed – by exposing them to sunlight, one would hope. The film’s own legend is drawn from its ©TAKE ONE 2013 many, often contradictory, analyses, as Editor/Design: Rosy Hunt academics and film enthusiasts try to Deputy Ed: Gavin Midgley make their own mark on its interpretation. Web Editor: Jim Ross [cont’d on page 5]
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