Shadow Of The Vampire is one of Nic's production projects, but one I think he was very close to in it's creation. What an incredibly, incredible film. A premise of the film within a film and based on the story of the creation of the film Nosferatu through it's unfolding on and off set for the the filmakers and cast, it is atmospheric, mutli layered and I would say timelessly compelling.

Here is our Movie Synopsis:

Shadow Of The Vampire is a fictionalised account of the making of the classic horror vampire movie 'Nosferatu, eine symphonie des Grauens' focussing on the director F.W Murnau and his crew, and the method actor, Max Schrek who is playing the lead role as the vampire Count Orlock. Some of the crew became frightened but assume it is just Schrek taking his method acting seriously when he describes himself as a vampire and drinks the blood of a bat in front of them. As the story unfold, the truth becomes known. 

and here is an interesting review!

http://fiveleggediguana.blogspot.com/search/label/nicolas%20cage

"Our battle, our struggle is to create art. Our weapon is the moving picture.

"Because we have the moving picture, our paintings will grow and recede. Our poetry will be shadows that lengthen and conceal. Our light will play across living faces that laugh and agonize.

And our music will linger and finally overwhelm, because it has a context as certain as the grave.

"We are scientists engaged in the creation of memory. But our memory will neither blur nor fade."

--F.W Mernau