The View From The Mountain

Director Robert Eggers remaking Nosferatu is a perfect fit. Eggers, whose films are all period pieces that are expertly researched down to how people speak in a specific time period, manages to entice the viewer into his stories by making them believe they are really in the era they are watching onscreen. The mundane complaint that Hollywood is running out of ideas is constantly being proved wrong by Eggers, who is telling his stories from across the breadth of time. And his take on Nosferatu is no exception. The original 1922 silent film Nosferatu was born out of the desire of telling the Dracula story from Bram Stoker’s seminal novel, but without paying for the rights. So certain names and locations were changed, and presto: we wound up with a classic silent film that still holds up exceedingly well, thanks to its extremely creepy vampire that became an enduring menace in his own right. Egger’s Nosferatu is a ...

I got this moon buggy toy from the movie Diamonds Are Forever back when I was a little spud around when the movie first came out. But I recall being annoyed upon seeing, instead of an astronaut, it had a guy in a suit driving it. Not realizing this was supposed to be 007 (I had never even heard of James Bond at that point in my young life), I removed the silly guy in the suit and always pretended that the moon buggy was driven by a proper astronaut. The arms are folded in front of it because they can no longer hold a pose. But the radar dish still spins when you roll it along.