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Post by Mattsby on May 11, 2018 21:22:01 GMT
I've only seen The Passion of Joan of Arc tbh quite some time ago. Gonna jump into his work very soon. Starting with the big five (Passion of Joan of Arc, Vampyr, Day of Wrath, Ordet, Gertrud) and then some of the other interesting seeming ones (Master of the House, Michael, etc).
Thoughts on his filmography? What have you seen? Thx!
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Post by stephen on May 11, 2018 22:02:16 GMT
I’d argue he was the most important filmmaker of the 1920s.
1. The Passion of Joan of Arc
2. Day of Wrath
3. Leaves from Satan’s Book
4. Ordet
5. Master of the House
6. The Parson’s Widow
7. Michael
8. The President
9. Vampyr (kind of the It Comes At Night of its time -- all mood, no meat)
10. Gertrud (needs a rewatch)
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Post by therealcomicman117 on May 11, 2018 23:35:30 GMT
The Passion of Joan of Arc
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Day of Wrath
Vampyr
The Parson's Wdow
Need to see more of his filmography, but of what I have seen, is pretty excellent.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 12, 2018 0:10:30 GMT
I think he's a crucial, austere filmmaker but I only really love two of his films but I love them a lot - although he has very great images all the way back to the start. I see him as kind of a matching case with Bresson who I love more, but that's probably because he worked and made his masterpieces (my faves anyway) later (1975, 1980) .......... so I see Bresson and Bergman as more modern. Taken in total though, they are all monumental and they set the stage for Kieslowski to me (though not so much Bela Tarr like some people say). They quite simply belong to a different era and time and different kind of cinema.
The two films I love from Dreyer are Ordet and Day of Wrath. Day of Wrath is a powerful statement - like you can watch it now and think it's about America today even - it clearly influenced everything even remotely witch related whether people saw it or not - especially The Crucible and Mother Joan of the Angels and even today..........The Witch etc. Its ending is a knockout.
But Ordet is to me a bigger and broader film - its the film Von Trier ripped off for Breaking the Waves and its ending, which to me suggests LvT doesn't actually get the Dreyer film or the nature of faith. There's not many films like it and there's not many films that so overwhelmingly state the case for their director as a genius. One of the great foreign films of the 50s, along with La Strada, Elevator To The Gallows, The Seventh Seal, etc.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2018 0:31:09 GMT
A great filmmaker. Ordet is probably the best film ever made about religion that wasn't directed by Ingmar Bergman.
1. Ordet
2. Vampyr
3. Gertrud
4. The Passion of Joan of Arc
5. Day of Wrath
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Post by Joaquim on May 12, 2018 8:00:43 GMT
1. Ordet
2. The Passion of Joan of Arc
3. The President
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Post by Javi on May 12, 2018 11:12:04 GMT
I've only seen The Passion of Joan of Arc tbh quite some time ago. Gonna jump into his work very soon. Starting with the big five (Passion of Joan of Arc, Vampyr, Day of Wrath, Ordet, Gertrud) and then some of the other interesting seeming ones (Master of the House, Michael, etc). Thoughts on his filmography? What have you seen? Thx! One of the best. I know he's often compared to Tarkovsky, Bergman, Bresson but to me he's clearly superior to all of them. There's no false austerity in his best films. Nothing can top The Passion of Joan of Arc as far as I'm concerned (emotionally his most personal; visually his most modern work), but Day of Wrath is a masterpiece too and comes dangerously close. Easily the best film of the 40s imo. Vampyr is very different to these two but makes for a fascinating watch. IMO his "medieval" movies are the ones that best express modern anxieties. Ironically Ordet which is actually set in modern times (1920s) and is a very literal denunciation of the contemporary spiritual state of things feels smaller and more obvious than his early classics... more in line with the timid half-religious movies of the 50s and 60s European arthouse, but minor Dreyer is still a must-see and even with its flaws it's a memorable study of doubt. |
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2018 14:09:13 GMT
1. The Passion of Joan of Arc
2. The Parson’s Widow
3. Vampyr
I think they’re all solid, but none of em are too special imo.
Need to see more, especially Ordet.
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Post by Joaquim on May 15, 2018 7:17:21 GMT
1. The Passion of Joan of Arc 2. The Parson’s Widow 3. Vampyr I think they’re all solid, but none of em are too special imo. Need to see more, especially Ordet. Salient new avatar. |
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Post by clunkybob2 on May 17, 2018 18:30:24 GMT
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