Your complimentary articles You’ve read one of your four complimentary articles for this month. You can read four articles free per month. To have complete access to the thousands of philosophy articles on this site, please Films Ștefan Bolea considers two very different artistic approaches to love and death. Director Robert Eggers’ movie Nosferatu , released on December 25th, 2024, was a remake of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent German Expressionist classic, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror , itself an unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula . Murnau’s unauthorised rendition led to a copyright infringement lawsuit from Stoker’s widow, and the court ordered the destruction of the movie. Some copies survived, though, making the original Nosferatu an almost mythical prototype of the horror genre. In terms of appreciating contrasting approaches to this classic tale, it may be even more fruitful to consider Eggers’ film alongside the 1992 movie Dracula , directed by Francis Ford Coppola.…