New Yorkers, ditch your other plans for tonight and hie thee to Lincoln Center for the Young Friends of Film screening of Werner Herzog's Nosferatu at 7:30 p.m.* It is one of the cinetrix's abiding regrets that she's never seen this lush, romantic film projected. The sequence when the plague sweeps through the city is simply breathtaking, and Klaus Kinski as the titular bloodsucker is beyond riveting. I mean, would you look at the guy? Makes fuckin' Oldman look like a piker.
Seriously, once you've seen this film, you understand why it was the Germans who named concepts like weltschmerz.
Plus, you could do worse than crib from Klaus Kinski if you still need a Halloween costume....
*A special prize for anyone who dares make it an ornate double-bill evening by taking in Miss Marie Antoinette, too. Look, there's a 10:55 show at the AMC Loews Lincoln Square.
