Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974) .. Jacques Rivette Gertrud (1964) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer The Green Ray (1986) .. Eric Rohmer Chimes at Midnight (1965) .. Orson Welles Early Summer (1951) .. Yasujiro Ozu Late Spring (1949) .. Yasujiro Ozu Sans Soleil (1983) .. Chris Marker L'Atalante (1934) .. Jean Vigo The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) .. Victor Erice Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) .. Robert Bresson...
L'Atalante (1934) .. Jean Vigo The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) .. Victor Erice Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) .. Robert Bresson Tokyo Story (1953) .. Yasujiro Ozu Man with a Movie Camera (1929) .. Dziga Vertov La Règle du Jeu (1939) .. Jean Renoir Playtime (1967) .. Jacques Tati L'Avventura (1960) .. Michelangelo Antonioni Sunrise (1927) .. F.W. Murnau The Conformist (1970) .. Bernardo Bertolucci...
They Caught the Ferry (1948) is a short highway safety film – much like the ones we used to watch in Drivers Ed. - produced by the Danish Film Commission, and directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, the legendary auteur of The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), Vampyr (1932), Day of Wrath (1943), Ordet ( The Word , 1955), and Gertrud (1964). It’s a macabre little story about a young couple on a motorcycle...
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...
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...
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) ,...
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....
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 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...
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 [...]
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