Cinema Series

“It is a wonder of the civilized world,” Count Dracula (Gary Oldman), a remnant of an archaic world, remarks to his prey, Mina Harker (Winona Ryder), while in disguise as a gentleman at a cinematograph exhibition in London. To Coppola, this early film technology was inherently mystical: “It’s a form of alchemy, of magic,” Coppola once said of the medium.