Following a three-month shoot, Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu has wrapped. Filming of the horror film took place at Barrandov Studio in Prague and wrapped production on May 19th. Production briefly took place at Prague’s historic Invalidovna complex, giving the film an authentic 18th-century look. As for how the shoot went, Collider provided a quote from The […]
Aaron Taylor-Johnson gets vampy as he joins Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu
Filming on Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu has already begun, and we’ve just learned about one of the biggest names joining the cast. Deadline reports that Aaron Taylor-Johnson will join the vampire remake, rounding out an already stellar cast that includes Lily-Rose Depp, Bill Skarsgard, Nicholas Hoult, Willem Dafoe, and Emma Corrin. Simon McBurney and Ralph Ineson […]
Willem Dafoe to reunite with Robert Eggers on Nosferatu
Willem Dafoe is set to return to the world of Nosferatu by joining his The Lighthouse and The Northman director Robert Eggers in the director’s reimagining of the gothic tale. Deadline reports that Dafoe will collaborate with Eggers once again in an as yet unspecified role alongside Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, and Bill Skarsgard, who’s […]
Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu moving forward with Lily-Rose Depp and Bill Skarsgard
After a couple of false starts, which included the castings of Anya Taylor-Joy and Harry Styles, it seems that director Robert Eggers is finally going to achieve his ambition of remaking the classic vampire horror Nosferatu. As revealed by Deadline, Eggers – whose previous films include The Witch, The Lighthouse and The Northman – has […]
4K Ultra HD Review – The Northman (2022)
The Northman, 2022. Directed by Robert Eggers. Starring Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ethan Hawke, Björk, and Willem Dafoe. SYNOPSIS: Robert Eggers’ latest tour de force, The Northman, arrives on 4K Ultra HD disc not long after its theatrical run. The film looks amazing in 4K, as you might imagine, and Universal […]
Northman the Barbarian: How Conan Courses Through The Northman
Tom Jolliffe looks at the similarities between The Northman and Conan the Barbarian. Spoilers follow… After success and masses of acclaim for his small scale masterworks The Witch and The Lighthouse, director Robert Eggers went large scale in his third outing. The Northman is a big budget Viking revenge epic. In every way, it’s the […]
The Art of Ambiguity in Cinema
Tom Jolliffe looks at the finest in ambiguous cinema, and asks ‘how do you pull it off?’… Often in the law books of screenwriting there’s a section which might tell the studious aspiring writer that a film must have clarity. Plot threads must lead to resolution. Each act and your central character arcs should be […]
Movie Review – The Northman (2022)
The Northman, 2022. Directed by Robert Eggers. Starring Alexander Skarsgård, Anya Taylor-Joy, Claes Bang, Nicole Kidman, Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Gustav Lindh, and Björk. SYNOPSIS: A young Viking prince embarks on an epic quest to avenge his father’s death. Robert Eggers broke into the Hollywood scene in 2015 with his period horror flick The Witch. […]
Movie Review – The Northman (2022)
The Northman, 2022. Directed by Robert Eggers. Starring Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Ethan Hawke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Gustav Lindh, Elliott Rose, Willem Dafoe, Phill Martin, Olwen Fouéré, Eldar Skar, Edgar Abram, Jack Gassmann, Ingvar E. Sigurðsson, Oscar Novak, Jack Walsh, Björk, Ian Whyte, Katie Pattinson, Andrea O’Neill, Rebecca Ineson, Kate Dickie, Ísadóra Bjarkardóttir Barney, […]
The Box Office Problem: The Desertion of the Cinephiles
Tom Jolliffe looks at the disappointing box office returns for The Northman and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, and the possible implications for cinema… The box office has been improving of late. We’re getting back to a stage of careful optimism and growth closer to the kind of numbers which films were pulling in […]
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