Day of Wrath
Cinema de Merde (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Fantasia on judgement, righteousness and condemnation. Party time!
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Carl Theodor Dreyer
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FILM IN FOCUS GETS A FACELIFT
Filmmaker Magazine: Blog (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
The FilmInFocus site has just undergone what is in my opinion a very nice 2.0-ish facelift, with a much cleaner new design and better organization of articles. (I'm one of the editors of this site along with Peter Bowen and Nick Dawson.) Please check it out, and to give you a leg up, here's some new stuff on the site that I recommend: Filmmaker's Jason Guerrasio explores the cult of The Big
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100% Day of Wrath
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
Carl Theodor Dreyer directed this austere and beautiful tragedy, set in 16th century Denmark. A pastor presides over a trial for witchcraft, ultimately finding the accused guilty.
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Day of Wrath, Church of Cinema
The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
By Steven Boone [ Day of Wrath opens today for a one-week run at Manhattan's IFC Center. Click here for screening information. ] Like the esteemed film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum, I discovered Day of Wrath in my teens. One of the local PBS stations was showing Carl Theodor Dreyer's film about 17th century Danish witch trials (adapted from Anne Pedersdotter by Norwegian playwright Han Wiers Jenssen)...
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Day of Wrath.
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
"It's masterfully photographed and alive to the human complexity of its characters, but offers an unsparing view of their failures and their blindness. It's intensely erotic, although it depicts nothing more risqué than a young couple kissing. It brings...
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Two from the Vault
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Day of Wrath (Vredens Dag) (1943), from a screenplay by Dreyer, Paul Knudsen and Mogens Scot-Hansen, is being shown in a new 35mm print from New Digital Restoration in a special one-week run at IFC Center from Aug. 29 to Sept. 4. The film was shot in Nazi-occupied Denmark in the midst of World War II, and Dreyer fled Denmark shortly after the film was released. Hence, Day of...
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Vampyr
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
In the first ever vampire film (1922), used the full expressionist force of his black-and-white imagery to underscore the conflict between darkness and light that is so essential to vampire mythology. Made almost a decade later, Carl Theodor Dreyer's lesser known (but in many ways superior) Vampyr similarly plays out in a twilit shadow-world (even its protagonist has the surname Gray), but it could...
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Ole Schmidt's music for the silent film "Jeanne d'Arc"
Leonard Link (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
It may seem useless to plug a recording that is out of print, but perhaps it will come back into print some day. Many years ago, in response to a positive review in a record magazine, I sought out a...
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Watch This: 'Vampyr'
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
The plot of "Vampyr," such as it is, isn't much. On a fishing holiday, a young man with an interest in the occult stays in a creepy rural inn. The visitor finds two women in danger. One of them, in fact, has acquired a mysterious wound on her neck. You can pretty much guess the rest. Obviously, plot isn't why "Vampyr," which is based on a Sheridan Le Fanu short story, "Carmilla," ranks with "Nosferatu"...
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New DVDs 7-22-2008
DaveKehr.com (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Two very different horror movies, released within a few months of each other: Karl Freund’s austere, minimalist “The Mummy” and Carl Theodor Dreyer’s unrestrainedly experimental “Vampyr,” considered here in the New York Times.
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Critic’s Choice: New DVDs: ‘Vampyr’ and ‘The Mummy’
New York Times (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
New on DVD this week are Karl Freund’s film “The Mummy,” starring Boris Karloff, and Carl Theodor Dreyer’s “Vampyr.”
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Vampyr (Criterion Collection)
GreenCine Guru (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Reviewer: Jeffrey M. Anderson Rating (out of 5): ***** Vampyr (1932) One of the all-time great filmmakers, the Danish-born Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889-1968) made what Paul Schrader termed "transcendental" films. That is, they attained something a little greater than...
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This Week's Interesting DVD Releases (July 22nd, 2008)
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
I have only seen a couple of episodes of the British sci-fi comedy series Spaced, but those few shows have had me eagerly awaiting the series to be released on DVD. Tomorrow the complete series is released, including deleted...
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Vampyr (Masters of Cinema Series) in August
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
News: Eureka Entertainment have announced the UK DVD release of Carl Th. Dreyer's Vampyr as part of their Masters of Cinema Series on 25th August 2008 priced at £19.99. The first sound-film by legendary director Carl Theodor Dreyer leads the viewer, as tho...
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Cannes. O' Horten.
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
"The 'O' stands for Odd, which is a Norwegian male first name. And, in the most affectionate sense, this film is 'odd,'" writes Duane Byrge in the Hollywood Reporter. "It's also outstanding." "Bent Hamer's unique blend of absurdist humour...
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