Je t’aime je t’aime, Nosferatu the Vampyre

A rare foray into science fiction for the great Alain Resnais, Je t’aime je t’aime focuses on the first man chosen to test time travel—an experiment that lands the subject in a maze of fractured memoires. As film critic Raymond Durgnat notes, “With Marker’s La jetée and Tarkovsky’s Solaris it constitutes a holy trinity of meditations on the horrors of eternal life.” (91 mins., 35mm) Originally released in the US in English, this alternate German version of Werner Herzog’s daring and beautiful homage to the silent horror classic Nosferatu remains virtually unseen in this country. With Klaus Kinski giving an indescribable performance as the title character and Bruno Ganz and Isabelle Adjani as the Harker couple, the film creates an atmospheric spectacle that’s full of attention to historical details. (107 mins., 35mm)