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FT 235

First up, two silent genre classics: FW Murnau’s 1922 German expressionist masterpiece Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror (Eureka £19.99) gets what must rank as its definitive release as part of Eureka’s Masters of Cinema series. This two-disc set features the 2007 restor­ation complete with the original Hans Erdmann score and boasts an hour-long German document­ary on the film’s creation and an excellent, scholarly 80-page book.


Victor Sjöström’s The Phantom Carriage (Tartan £19.99) is also available with its original score (rather than the sonic water-tort­ure of the recent ‘KTL Edition’) and the bonus of fellow Swede Ingmar Bergman’s penultimate work, the 2000 TV-film The Image Makers, in which Sjöström screens his film for The Phantom Carriage’s imperious author.