Movie Poster of the Week: “The Passion of Joan of Arc” and the Widescreen Posters of René Péron
Adrian CurryA pair of stunning giant posters for Dreyer’s masterpiece, and other over-sized posters by the artist René Péron.
Carl Th. Dreyer
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Win Dreyer's "Ordet" on DVD!
David HudsonThe BFI’s complete retrospective features an extended run of one of Dreyer’s greatest films.
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Notebook's 4th Writers Poll: Fantasy Double Features of 2011
NotebookIn our annual poll, we pair our favorite new films of 2011 with older films seen in the same year to create fantastic double features.
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Daily Briefing. "Twin Peaks" @ 20
David HudsonAlso: The Passion of Joan of Arc accompanied by Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Will Gregory (Goldfrapp).
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Henning Bendtsen, 1925 - 2011
David HudsonBendtsen and Dreyer on the set of Gertrud (DFI); Ordet "Danish cinematographer Henning Bendtsen — whose career stretched from the 1940s to 1991, with his final film, Lars von Trier's Europa — has
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Dreyer, Malle, Davies, Huston
David HudsonThe Carl Theodor Dreyer retrospective at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley has been going on since the beginning of the month and runs through December 12. Time to catch up with Kelly Vance's piece
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TIFF 2010. Images of the day
Daniel KasmanFrom Martin Arnold's Jeanne (2002), currently being projected at the Bell Lightbox.
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Movie Posters of the Week: Early Dreyer
Adrian CurryFor a retro of films by master Carl Th. Dreyer at the BFI in London, a post from our archives.
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The Tubular Muse: The Close-Up
Daniel KasmanAnna Faris in "Smiley Face" (2007) & Maria Falconetti in "The Passion of Joan of Arc" (1928) "I will never find the way to say how much I love American close-ups. Point blank. A head suddenly appears
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Dreyer Diary #7: "Love One Another" + "Vampyr"
Ryland Walker KnightThe Brooklyn Academy of Music ran a Carl Th. Dreyer retrospective, appropriately and monolithically titled DREYER, from March 13 - March 31. Here you will find my quick notes as I plunge in deep with the
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Image of the day: Martyrs & Saints
Pacze MojThe Interrogation (Bugajski, 1982): two shots of Krystyna Janda as a political prisoner, which remind me of Maria Falconetti in Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc.
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Dreyer Diary #6: "Gertrud"
Ryland Walker KnightThe Brooklyn Academy of Music is running a Carl Th. Dreyer retrospective, appropriately and monolithically titled DREYER, from March 13 - March 31. Here you will find my quick notes as I plunge in deep