Francis Coppola’s most successful film of the 1990s was also his most audacious. Breaking from the prevailing image of Count Dracula as a debonair, tuxedoed swell, Coppola gives us a sexy, bohemian aristo, a whiskery Gary Oldman—hiding a venal old man on the inside. The horror mythology gives the director license to cut loose. You would be hard pressed to come up with a more stylized studio film from the period. Shot on sound stages and incorporating a full panoply of practical effects, the movie harkens back to Murnau’s Nosferatu but with a luscious blood-red palette; costumes by Eiko Ishioka, cinematography by Michael Ballhaus (GoodFellas).
Magnificent… astonishing… This is Coppola the master showman, the conjurer and maestro, directing at full tilt.
Hal Hinson, Washington Post
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Francis Coppola
Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, Anthony Hopkins, Sadie Frost, Monica Bellucci
USA
1992
English
Indigenous & Community Access
Credits
Screenwriter
James V. Hart
Cinematography
Michael Ballhaus
Editor
Anne Goursaud, Glen Scantlebury, Nicholas C. Smith
Original Music
Wojciech Kilar
Production Design
Thomas E. Sanders
Art Director
Nathan Crowley, Andrew Precht
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