The 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 for the East Bay Express: "The Danish writer-director (1889-1968) is responsible for some of the boldest, most emotionally powerful visuals in history as well as for moments of vulnerable, unforced tranquility. His is the cinema of painful redemption simultaneously co-existing with hopeful transcendence — and of the irresistible image versus the almighty word.... [S]enior film curator Susan Oxtoby has gathered together all fourteen of the filmmaker's surviving features, beginning with The President (1918) and ending with 1964's Gertrud — plus the 1948 short, They Caught the Ferry. Centerpiece of the series is, naturally, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Dreyer's most notorious creation and one of the most magnificent, and most emotionally wrenching, experiences in screen history."...
- 11/20/2010
- MUBI
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