Halloween season continues: Warming up with 'Nosferatu' for two screenings of 'The Bat'

Looking more and more like Max Schrek: outside the Flying Monkey prior to last night's screening of 'Nosferatu' (1922). Sometimes it all comes together: a score flows seamlessly from one scene into another, the right music falls into place, and you go from one powerful scene to the next.That's what happened, I think, on Thursday, Oct. 22 at the Flying Monkey Moviehouse and Performance Center in Plymouth, N.H., where I accompanied 'Nosferatu' (1922).You'd think this wouldn't be an issue with a film I've accompanied literally more than 100 times over the years. It ought to all be there, and fall into place just as a matter of course.But it doesn't work like that, at least the way I accompany a film. Each screening is a fresh opportunity to bring a movie to life—and sometimes the movie just won't cooperate.I think it's similar to how pilots talk about "staying ahead of the airplane," which means anticipating how an aircraft is likely to respond in advance of any adjustment while in…