(Jewish Group) With a new score and new ideas, 'The Golem' is a must for your Jewish Halloween
How do you breathe new life into an age-old tale of creation? With a little help from the drummer of The Flaming Lips.
On Oct. 28, Jewish arts and culture non-profit Reboot is launching “The Golem Rescored” a digital series that adds a fresh score to the 1920 German Expressionist classic “The Golem: How He Came into the World.” The series divides the film into eight parts, each scored by different artists, that can be streamed on YouTube.
Reboot CEO David Katznelson, a horror movie buff and veteran music producer, launched the project after learning that, though Paul Wegener’s massively influential retelling of the Jewish mystique Rabbi Loew’s molding of a man from clay had a production date of 1920, its actual premiere was 1921, making this year the 100th anniversary of its debut.
“The movie originally came out in June,” Katznelson said. “We made a decision. You know what? Come on. We’re gonna put it out June? Or are we gonna put it out on Halloween?”
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We have a copy of this movie on Blu-Ray with multiple scores. We watched with the original-ish score and English and Yiddish subtitles. It is worth a watch. The version we watched is a silent movie.