The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Denmark Feature Film Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer Writers: Carl Theodor Dreyer, Hjalmar Söderberg Cinematographer: Henning Bendtsen Composer: Jørgen Jersild Cast: Nina Pens Rode, Bendt Rothe, Ebbe Rode, Baard Owe, Axel Strøbye Dreyer’s majestic final film - in which the attractive, refined lady of the title strives (and fails) to connect with the four men in her life, refusing...
Movie Cross Rhodes (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
Film Review #211: The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928/DVD 1999 Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer Cast: Renee Maria Falconetti & others The idea of what makes a woman hero dates back at least to female medieval mystics, among them Joan of Arc, the illiterate French peasant girl whose “divine voices” told her to unite France, assist in the crowning of the young Charles VII and expel the English...
Movie Moxie (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer (The Passion of Joan of Arc) Source Material: the novel "In a Glass Darkly" by Sheridan Le Fanu Cast: Julian West, Maurice Schultz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz France / Germany , 1932 Seen: August 29, 2009 Reason to Review: Vampathon: Vampire Film Marathon * Vampyr was quite a hidden gem for me, I had ordered it from the library thinking it was Nosferatu (1922) ,...
Moon in the Gutter (Free subscription) | 08/29/2009
Recently I had the chance to watch and write on a terrific new modern noir starring Tom Sizemore and Sasha Alexander called The Last Lullaby . This incredibly effective film is the first feature from a very talented young filmmaker named Jeffrey Goodman. Jeffrey has been gracious enough to take part in this Question and Answer session for Moon in the Gutter that I hope everyone will read and enjoy....
gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
The first 39 pages of Dreyer's draft script for 'Vampyr' from the Carl Theodor Dreyer Collection at the Danish Film Institute.
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 08/01/2009
In 1928, the Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer released "The Passion of Joan of Arc," which has remained a hardy perennial on almost every critic's top 10 list of all-time greatest films. His career after that -- the subject of a National Gallery of Art retrospective that begins Sunday -- was ...
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
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The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
74 votes Citizen Kane (1941) _Orson Welles Vertigo (1958) _Alfred Hitchcock 64 votes 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) _Stanley Kubrick 57 votes The Godfather (1972) _Francis Ford Coppola 55 votes Casablanca (1942) _Michael Curtiz 52 votes The Third Man (1949) _Carol Reed 49 votes Taxi Driver (1976) _Martin Scorsese 48 votes Seven Samurai (1954) _Akira Kurosawa Psycho (1960) _Alfred Hitchcock 47 votes Dr....
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
Citizen Kane (1941) .. Orson Welles Vertigo (1958) .. Alfred Hitchcock 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) .. Stanley Kubrick The Godfather (1972) .. Francis Ford Coppola Casablanca (1942) .. Michael Curtiz The Third Man (1949) .. Carol Reed Taxi Driver (1976) .. Martin Scorsese Seven Samurai (1954) .. Akira Kurosawa Psycho (1960) .. Alfred Hitchcock Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and...
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
The General (1927) .. Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton The Wind (1928) .. Victor Sjöström Duck Soup (1933) .. Leo McCarey It Happened One Night (1934) .. Frank Capra La Grande Illusion (1937) .. Jean Renoir Bringing Up Baby (1938) .. Howard Hawks His Girl Friday (1940) .. Howard Hawks Rebecca (1940) .. Alfred Hitchcock The Shop Around the Corner (1940) .. Ernst Lubitsch Hail the Conquering...
Observations on Film Art (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Bust of Carl Theodor Dreyer in the Dagmar Bio, the film theatre he once managed. DB here: Denmark was the first foreign country I ever visited. Having never been to Canada or Mexico, I took off in the early summer of 1970. Technically, I touched down in Reykjavik first because I was flying Icelandic Airlines, the Ryanair [...]
One1more2time3's Weblog (Free subscription) | 05/28/2009
LA PASSION DE JEANNE D’ARC was produced a silent film in france in 1928, directed by CARL THEODOR DREYER. even for today standards the film is a masterpiece, in acting – especially the main role played by RENEE JEANNE FALCONETTI, as well as for the visuals. the camera concentrates mainly on the actor’s facial features. [...]
M.HULOT'S NOTHING DAYS (Free subscription) | 04/15/2009
απ' το wikipedia : voices of light is a 1994 musical composition by richard einhorn. it was inspired by the silent film the passion of joan of arc (dir. carl theodor dreyer), which is also accompanied with a live performance. the libretto is based on excerpts from a variety of ancient writings, most of it from medieval female mystics. it is scored for a small orchestra, chorus...
National Review Online (Free subscription) | 04/09/2009
Art, like food, can be a vehicle for the expression of the most profound of spiritual realities.
The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 03/31/2009
By Dan Callahan The last five films of Carl Theodor Dreyer are accepted classics of world cinema, written about, shown regularly, and given the full Criterion treatment on DVD. Many who have only seen a few silent films have seen his The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), and Criterion recently put out a comprehensive Vampyr (1932) that helped to shed some light on that misty, eternally disorienting film,...
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