European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 27, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse I loved it that s All i know. I be Only spoken to her twice in my if Rice really loved it then she s eerie than we Al ready suspected an author who appreciates a director remaking her vision into his own. Interview with the Vampire is besides being a film of occasionally startling violence and quarts of blood an exercise in Camp. Gone is much of the. Dark tonality of the Book with cruise cracking the kinds of jokes that Wouldhave done love at first bite proud. Were the laughs wrong Jordan asks. I just thought some things were inherently funny. They re eating rats it s hilarious. Well then let s have pm eat . Let s get some chickens. In t there something funny in Louis dilemma a Vampire who won t kill yeah but George Hamilton would have been cheaper than cruise and Brad Pitt and Antonio ban Deras and Stephen Rea All those love hunks made up to look like they need naps and transfusions. But alas this is a big budget Vampire tale one that suggests a Litany of allusions although it was first published in 1976, before aids had a Nam and All of which Jordan dismisses what fascinated me was the idea that there s no moral responsibility y know he says. Louis be comes a Vampire and has to do these unconscionable acts to survive. And he says Why is there no punishment Why in t god punishing me and of course nobody punishes him and that s what drives him nuts. I thought it was an amazing moral ques Tion. I thought if you could bring that to the fore front then you d have a Story. Because it really is a subjective Book in t it it s not Story that leaps to your mind when you think of efforts to find metaphors in interview arc an at tempt to justify the Book s darkness he says he d rather depict an amoral universe. And that s not a metaphor he says it s a Jordan is not like so Many other readers of Rice s Vampire chronicles a longtime fan. David Geffen asked me to do it is How it happened Jordan says. He sent me the Book i read it i read Anne s script and i said i d love to do it but i have to do it As an in dependent movie. I have to have my own Way with the screenplay cause that s what i am a a writer lost in the world of multimedia As he puts it. Jordan began his career As an author of fic Tion then became a scriptwriter and began directing when his scripts were ill used by others. On inter View however he gets no writing credit. The writer s Guild has decided it s her screen play he says. Maybe they re right. Her script needed quite a bit of work and i did quite a bit of when Jordan Speaks there s a lilt and a hint of impatience. He seems tired if not of vampires then of talking about them. His next project will be More of a european film a biography of Michael col Lins the Man who made the Irish revolution happen and who la be played by Neeson. He s ready to get on to it. Interview took a total of 17 years and various aborted efforts to get to the screen. It s time for the unto Comesup. Los Angeles times Washington Post news service from Nosferatu to interview by Pittsburgh Post Gazette a panel of critics offers these picks for the 10 Best Vampire movies in chronological order Nosferatu they Don t come any creepier than this 1922 original directed by . Turnau. It s a wonder audiences Ever went to see another. Dracula Bela Lugosi forever earned a place in Hollywood history with this 1931 Tod Browning re lease. After playing the title role on Broadway and on the Road he could wrap his accent around i. Brad Pitt portrays Louis who destroys the theater of the vampires in interview with the Vampire. Am. Drac Ula with chilling conviction on Filev Vampy the great european director Carl Dreyer made this 1932 film about a Young Man who believes himself surrounded by vampires and dreams of his own burial. The film is particularly noteworthy for its stylized lighting and camera angles. The fearless Vampire killer or Pardon me but your Teeth Are in my neck the combination of director Star roman Polanski and actress Sharon Tate is kind of Creepy Given what was to happen later. But this 1967 film also known As dance of the vampires is really a ghoulish Hoot. Martin George Romero directed this 1978 film about a modern Day Vampire. At the time news week critic Jack Kroll called it the Best balance of wit and horror since Romero often cites it As his favorite film he even plays a priest in it. Nosferatu the Vampire Werner Herzog directed this haunting 1979 remake of Turnau s Clas sic. The cast includes Klaus Kinski As the most frightening Vampire Ever Isabelle Dajani and Bruno Ganz. Often cited As the All time Best Vampire film. Dracula in 1979, director John Badham put his imprint on the tale with suave Frank Langella As the transylvanian count who Heads for redder pastures in London. The cast includes Laurence Olivier. The hunger directed by Tony Scott and photo graphed As if it were a Vogue fashion layout this could be interpreted As a nightmarish satire on the modern obsession with staying Young. Released in 1983, it stars Catherine Deneuve David Bowie and Susan Sarandon. Bram Stoker s Dracula or Francis Ford Coppola s Dracula we should say. On the hipness scale this is Way up there Given the appearances of Gary Oldman Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves Al though the actor who later developed a need for Speed seems out of his depth in this lavish Over wrought often erotic period piece released in 1992. Interview with the Vampire elegant stylish and faithful adaptation of the Anne Rice novel. Scrupps Howard news service november 27,1994 sunday Page 7
