I'm convinced that FW Murnau is the greatest filmmaker ever. Period.
Tonight I watched another one of his works, Faust:
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Of course, one of the beauties of silent film is that it offers a blank slate for interpretation. A few years ago I watched Nosferatu with a live band doing avant-garde jazz accompaniment. My hair literally stood on end during the final sequence. I think the Vivaldi works very well in the clip above. It wasn't in the version I watched at home on DVD.