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Nosferatu Review
Ooooh. We hate to admit this, but we have never seen a silent dramatic film. Yeah, we've seen our fair share of Chaplins and Keatons, but never a drama. No Metropolis, and yes, we're heathens.
Imagine how terribly spoiled we feel now, having just seen Nosferatu -- featuring a live, original score by Inversion Effect -- at the Alamo-Lake Creek, that crazy, WASP-ish, NW-Austin branch of the ever-trendy Alamo chain of movie theaters.
But we digress. Really, we are throwbacks to some sad population of unenlightened cretins, for we have, for the first time, experienced a silent film with the expert, impressive accompaniment of a contemporary band (uh, can we say "band" or is that also terribly dated??). Inversion Effect's score was, wow, so impressive. We're really not sure what it would be like to see Nosferatu without IE's score, but we've rested assured that it would for sure be nowhere near as moving as the film we experienced tonight.
The band (group? trio?...but...there seem to be more?) created themes & movements that carried throughout the film. We like to consider ourselves to be pretty observant, and we were mighty impressed by things like: our intrepid hero & his lovely lady had their own theme + variations; many visual effects had subtle but nice sound effects; and most significantly, the climax of the film was scored so beautifully that we were almost in tears and were really getting the entire, tragic, vampire-plague thing. Maybe it was all that red wine, but we don't think so. It was truly moving, and while the film is admittedly a great & revered classic, the score was the thing that got to us. In a good way.
And then there was all that red wine. The theater was woefully underfilled (maybe 1/8 capacity or less?), but the waitstaff was nevertheless friendly, helpful and prompt. And we must say, perhaps $40 seems steep for dinner + a movie, but glurgh, the food was top rate. We had to take a doggie bag b/c the steak was so large & the quantity of food so ample. Maybe that's not such a good thing, though we appreciated it because we're cheap and we look forward to enjoying our Nosferatu feast for lunch tomorrow...and breakfast on Friday, even.
All said & done, we just have to say that we would strongly recommend checking out a dinner+movie at Alamo. It was really a great gastronomical & theatrical experience for us. And we would also suggest taking in a show from Inversion Effect -- say perhaps October 31, 9pm sharp, Elysium -- because they impressed us mightily.
