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A GIRL ON A BEACH<\/span>: On October 30, I watched Nosferatu at the AFI Silver, with a live score by the Silent Orchestra. There are a lot of things one could notice about that experience (SOMEDAY I will own the SO-scored version of Alla Nazimova\u2019s Salome<\/span>!!!!) but I will just pick one.<\/p>\n

This movie is very long, for a silent movie, and it does have bland stretches. But it also offers lots and lots of scary ship upon a scary ocean<\/a>. And it also is only the second movie, after Barton Fink<\/a><\/span>, where I\u2019ve found an image from my personal horror iconography presented in all its beauty and terror.<\/p>\n

The Mina Harker character\u2013I can\u2019t remember her nom de ripoff, but you know which one I mean\u2013sits out on the beach and waits for her husband\u2019s ship. The waves crest black; the grasses shake in the wind. Crosses are planted here and there around the bench where she sits, memorials to sailors lost.<\/p>\n

This one scene twists in my gut. It takes the hope, the memory, the sense that once there was a place where we were at home\u2013all the things I associate with this scene of a beautiful girl on a beach\u2013and studs it with crosses, with death and heartbreak.<\/p>\n

I have been here before
But when or how I cannot tell;
I know the grass beyond the door,
The sweet keen smell,
The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2013Dante Rossetti, \u201cSudden Light\u201d (more from me<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Somewhere I have heard this before\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2013Nirvana, \u201cDrain You\u201d<\/p>\n

Just a beach and a pretty girl,
If you just take this potion<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2013The Levellers, \u201cFifteen Years\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love-
I and my Annabel Lee;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2013Edgar Poe, \u201cAnnabel Lee\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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