JULY 9 - SPECIAL SEASON: THE PASSION OF CARL DREYER
July 9 - 7:00pm
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Carl Dreyer (1927) 82 mins
Dreyer’s intense, profound & stylistically innovative film seems like an historical document from a time before cinema existed. This landmark work, conceived from the actual trial manuscripts, is driven by Rudolph Maté’s starkly illuminated images & Dreyer’s meticulous attention to the brutal & experiential dimension’s of Joan’s plight, evoking from the singular Maria Falconetti the cinema’s most serene & agonised performance. With Antonin Artaud & Michel Simon.
35mm print courtesy of Danish Film Institute.
July 9 - 8:30pm
Vampyr
Carl Dreyer (1932) 70 mins
Dreyer’s memorable, unofficial retelling of the Bram Stoker classic is marked by a concern for the oneiric & the interplay of light & shadow. With Rudolph Maté’s cinematography imbuing the film with a dreamlike reality suggestive of the liminal realm of the vampire, Dreyer went far beyond the purely Gothic, creating a horror film that not only contains a number of the most unsettling images in cinema history (including the point-of-view of a body being led to burial) but that makes most other examples pale into insignificance.
35mm print courtesy of Danish Film Institute.
July 9 - 9:50pm
Once Upon a Time
Carl Dreyer (1922) 75 mins
While approximately half of its original footage has been lost, Dreyer’s adaptation of Holger Drachmann’s popular play remains an engaging early work. Thought lost until 1964, when fragments of celluloid were discovered in a long-forgotten vault, the surviving footage is supported by stills & intertitles, which help to make up the complete narrative. With its echoes of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew & its fairytale atmosphere, Dreyer’s film is a light-hearted affair of considerable historical interest.
35mm print courtesy of Danish Film Institute.
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