Sumptuous, frightening and textural, but the ending is simply irredeemable to me. The last few minutes, where Ellen is raped and killed, are the only part of the film that at all justify the title Nosferatu (rather than Dracula), since that ending is used by Murnau in the original Nosferatu (itself an otherwise straightforward adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel). The decision to use this ending, where Ellen's (Mina's in the novel) connection to the Count and her cleverness in tricking…

Fried Green Tomatoes was my mother's favourite film. She watched it again a few years ago and asked if I wanted to her, but I had a different film I wanted to watch that afternoon and said no. Out of everything that losing her made me regret doing, for some reason that's the thing I regret the most. She was a wonderful person and a wonderful mother, and if she had any faults I've completely forgotten them. Her funeral…