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    Carl Theodor Dreyer (Danish: [ˈkʰɑˀl ˈtsʰe̝ːotɒ ˈtʁɑjˀɐ]; 3 February 1889 – 20 March 1968), commonly known as Carl Th. Dreyer, was a Danish film director...
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  • Vampyr (category Films directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer)
    1932 gothic horror film directed by Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer. The film was written by Dreyer and Christen Jul based on elements from J. Sheridan...
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    The Passion of Joan of Arc (category Films directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer)
    Carl Theodor Dreyer and stars Renée Jeanne Falconetti as Joan. It is widely regarded as a landmark of cinema, especially for its production, Dreyer's...
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    film actress, notable for her acclaimed role as Joan of Arc in Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 silent The Passion of Joan of Arc and subsequent mysterious...
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  • Ordet (category Films directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer)
    as The Word in English), is a 1955 Danish drama film, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer. It is based on a play by Kaj Munk, a Danish Lutheran priest, first...
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  • Benjamin Dreyer (b. 1958), American writer and copy editor Benedikt Dreyer (1495–1555), German sculptor, carver and painter Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889–1968)...
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  • Day of Wrath (category Films directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer)
    Wrath (Danish: Vredens dag) is a 1943 Danish drama film directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer and starring Lisbeth Movin, Thorkild Roose and Preben Lerdorff Rye...
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    Renoir, Cecil B. DeMille, King Vidor, Victor Fleming, Raoul Walsh, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Sergei Eisenstein, and Stanley Kubrick have praised Griffith. Griffith...
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  • from Carl Theodor Dreyer's films and from Robert Bresson's. Thus David Thomson writes enthusiastically that seeing Ida is "like seeing Carl Dreyer's The...
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  • childhood idol. He gave me a beautiful bottle of wine and a DVD set of the Carl Dreyer Vampyr. It was a really graceful and wonderful introduction." During...
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    original story while investigating a series of murders. Danish director Carl Dreyer loosely adapted Carmilla for his film Vampyr (1932) but deleted any references...
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    themes, sexual frankness and technical innovation. The Danish filmmaker Carl Th. Dreyer is considered one of the greatest directors of early cinema. Other...
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  • Gertrud (film) (category Films directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer)
    Gertrud is a 1964 Danish drama film directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer; it is based on the 1906 play of the same name by Hjalmar Söderberg. The title role...
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  • important for our times as the works of Griffith, Leni Riefenstahl, Carl Dreyer and Luchino Visconti were for theirs." Pauline Kael championed the film...
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    narrative films are Day of Wrath, Ordet and Gertrud, all directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, the order depending, "almost entirely on which one I’ve seen most...
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  • and the format was later adapted for cinema by Ingmar Bergman and Carl Theodor Dreyer. The name is derived from the term chamber music. Closet drama Drawing...
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  • and Edgar Allan Poe, to the cinema of Robert Bresson, Jean Renoir and Carl Dreyer.[citation needed] French critic Jean Douchet has written that Godard's...
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  • intertitles to narrate the story. Lupu Pick F. W. Murnau Carl Mayer Georg Wilhelm Pabst Carl Theodor Dreyer Shattered The Last Laugh German Expressionism German...
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    participant on the Palace project – providing a live soundtrack for the Carl Dreyer silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc, at the National Film Theatre...
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  • Carl Th. Dreyer: My Metier (Danish: Carl Th. Dreyer: Min metier) is a 1995 Danish documentary film directed by Torben Skjødt Jensen [da] about the film...
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    partnership with Fritz Lang, but also for writing scripts for F. W. Murnau, Carl Dreyer, E. A. Dupont, and other German luminaries". Her brother, Horst von Harbou...
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  • movie, only [the film] is not a comedy. It also evokes something by Carl Dreyer, but [the film] is not that pious." Scott Tobias of The A.V. Club opined...
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  • Shadows. Besides his work on John Cassavetes, Carney has written on Carl Theodor Dreyer, Frank Capra, and Mike Leigh. He has also written extensively on...
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    personality.[citation needed] He also played the monk Massieu in Carl Theodor Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928).:17 Artaud wrote a number of film...
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  • "shattering", with a "combination of ambiguity and intensity that recalls both Carl Dreyer and Nicholas Ray". When the two female leads exchange glances with each...
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    Von Trier. Denmark has had a strong tradition of movie making and Carl Theodor Dreyer has been recognised as one of the world's greatest film directors...
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  • Michael (1924 film) (category Films directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer)
    and Heart's Desire) is a 1924 German silent drama film directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, director of other notable silents such as The Passion of Joan of...
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  • Carné's third feature they came together as archetypes." Danish director Carl Dreyer included Port of Shadows in his top 10 film list. A scene from the film...
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  • Alain Resnais, Yasujirō Ozu, and many other film theorists and artists. Carl Dreyer was a particularly recurrent influence, particularly his film The Passion...
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    Master of the House (category Films directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer)
    Danish silent drama film directed and written by acclaimed filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer. The film marked the debut of Karin Nellemose, and it is regarded...
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