Ep. #97 - Christmas MASH-UP!: Nosferatu v. A Complete Unknown

Welcome to our FFF Christmas mash-up where we are going to look at the two important titles released on the 25th of December in the year of  Our Lord 2024: Nosferatu, directed by Robert Eggers and starring Lily Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Bill Skarsgard, and Willem Dafoe up against A Complete Unknown directed by James “Walk the Line/Ford Vs. Ferrari” Mangold and starring Timothee Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Maria Barbaro, Dan Fogler, and the one two punch of craggy, Oakie-faced Narcos Alums:  Boyd Holbrook and Scoot McNairy.

I’m your host Gino Caputi and I am joined by the lean and mean crew of Roseanne Caputi and Gordon Alex Robertson. 

Before we throw down with the garlic, wooden stakes, crucifixes and Gibson J-50’s, the synopses:

In Nosferatu the Dracula story is reimagined as a German tale where newlywed, social climbing Thomas Hutter is sent to Transylvania to sell a house to the mysterious Count Orlok. Orlok in turn knows Hutter’s Wife Ellen as years before she allowed him to enter her soul. After Hutter escapes Orloks castle of horrors, Orlock relocates to Wisborg and brings evil and plague with him. With the town gone mad, it is up to Ellen to stop Orlok. 


In A Complete Unknown, it is 1961 and a young Bob Dylan arrives in New York City to meet his idol Woody Guthrie. Introduced to Guthrie by Pete Seeger in the hospital where Guthrie is dying, Dylan becomes immersed in the New York Folk scene, developing a relationship with folkl sensation Joan Baez. Years go by and Dylan decides to go against Seeger and the Folk community by playing an electric guitar at the famous Newport Folk Festival. Chaos ensues. 

So which film best exemplifies the spirit of Christmas? 

Find out! 


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