Nosferatu and Somthing Rotten reviews
Feb. 21st, 2008 02:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearLast night, Dave and I went to an excellent event at Temple Church. They set up five projector screens and showed the film, Nosferatu, while David Briggs improvised a score on the church organ.
It was really fun. The movie was very silly in the way that only 20s silent movies can be, and the music was excellent, mostly atmospheric, but interspersed with humorous additions such as The Sound of Music or The Hall of the Mountain King over landscape shots. I enjoyed the film more than I was expecting to, and it was great to combine it with the live performance of the music.
The only downside was the venue, as it was rather chilly and the seats were extremely hard.
I also finished the last in the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde yesterday. Something Rotten sees Thursday back in the real world, after an entire book set within fiction. I prefer the Jurisfiction escapades to the real world SpecOps stuff, so I didn't enjoy this book as much as the last one, but it was still good fun, and it was nice to see the major plot arcs of the series come to a close. The denouement was exciting, and the overall conclusion very satisfactory.
It was really fun. The movie was very silly in the way that only 20s silent movies can be, and the music was excellent, mostly atmospheric, but interspersed with humorous additions such as The Sound of Music or The Hall of the Mountain King over landscape shots. I enjoyed the film more than I was expecting to, and it was great to combine it with the live performance of the music.
The only downside was the venue, as it was rather chilly and the seats were extremely hard.
I also finished the last in the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde yesterday. Something Rotten sees Thursday back in the real world, after an entire book set within fiction. I prefer the Jurisfiction escapades to the real world SpecOps stuff, so I didn't enjoy this book as much as the last one, but it was still good fun, and it was nice to see the major plot arcs of the series come to a close. The denouement was exciting, and the overall conclusion very satisfactory.
