Dracula Pages from a Virgin's Diary
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 15 minutes
- Video: Black & White / Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 18, 2004
- Originally Released: 2003
- Label: Zeitgeist Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Zhang Wei-Qiang, CindyMarie Small & Tara Birtwhistle | |
Performer: | David Moroni, C.M., Johnny Wright, Stephane Leonard, Matthew Johnson, Keir Knight, Brent Neale & Stephanie Ballard | |
Directed by | Guy Maddin | |
Edited by | Deco Dawson | |
Composition by | Gustav Mahler | |
Produced by | Vonnie Von Helmolt | |
Director of Photography: | Paul Suderman | |
Executive Production by | Robert Sherrin |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make."
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Just when you think that holly stakes, garlic, crucifixes and capes are all there is to vampire stories, Maddin and the Royal Winnipeg put Dracula back on his toes.
Orlando Sentinel
Rating: 4.5/5 --
A production that is as sexually charged as it is beautifully designed.
Film Threat
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Marries B&W silent horror-movie style with beautifully eerie ballet in a succulently cinematic, lustfully melodramatic adaptation that is at once wholly unique and uncommonly faithful to Bram Stoker's classic novel.
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SPLICEDWire
Though it sounds like an offbeat idea even for horror fans, the tech work is so well done that it could disarm unwary buffs attracted by the campy title.
Variety
[I]njected with such florid life and vigour that it sweeps you off your feet. Irresistible.
Total Film
...[DRACULA] ranks among the more eccentric wonders of the new-movie world....It's sexy, brainy and slightly nuts...
Los Angeles Times
... the most startlingly original and creative reading of the novel ever put to film.
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Product Description:
This silent, black and white film, adapted from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's interpretation of Bram Stoker's DRACULA, is Guy Maddin's dramatic masterpiece. It is an atmospheric, gothic work full of dance and eroticism, accompanied by Gustav Mahler's music. Clearly a modern film that has been styled to mimic the earliest works of cinema, DRACULA: PAGES FROM A VIRGIN'S DIARY is grainy and its light is often distorted. It uses large, emphatic title cards that introduce the characters, give loose plot structure, and serve as ironically comic punctuation to the action. There are sound effects that bring reality to some of the more gruesome vampire-hunting sequences. And there are moments of color--for instance, when blood is crudely drawn from the arm of the victim's fiance into a large antique tube, or when Dracula tosses his bright green dollar bills into the air. The film is divided into two chapters dedicated to Dracula's two victims. In the opening sequences, Lucy (Tara Birtwhistle), a pale vampy creature clad in a white gown, flirts with three suitors, but abandons all of them to welcome the elegant and seductive Dracula (Zhang Wei-Quang) into her arms late at night. After Lucy has passed, the focus turns to a more virginal, demure victim: Nina (CindyMarie Small). Pursuing the demon are a group of forthright men bearing stakes, garlic, crosses, and other tools of the trade. With DRACULA, Madden has created a truly inspired work that successfully combines ballet, film, and horror.
Keywords:
Ballet
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Dance
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Silent
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Vampires
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Recommended
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Theatrical Release
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Silent Cinema
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Adaptation
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Silent Films
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Canadian
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Based On A Novel
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- UPC: 795975105132
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