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The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) More at IMDbPro »La passion de Jeanne d'Arc (original title)
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8 items from 2012
The Films Of Robert Bresson: A Retrospective
18 April 2012 10:40 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
“We are still coming to terms with Robert Bresson, and the peculiar power and beauty of his films,” Martin Scorsese said in the 2010 book “A Passion For Film,” describing the often overlooked French filmmaker as “one of the cinema’s greatest artists.”
But while he may be revered by some as the finest French filmmaker bar Jean Renoir, outside hardcore cinephile circles he and his films are virtually unknown (perhaps regarded as too opaque or nebulous). Just consider the fact that almost every definitive book on the elusive director was published during the aughts to feel the full truth of Scorsese's statement about how we're still in the process of appreciating and understanding his life and work. Even Bresson’s actual birthdate is contested, adding further the ambiguities surrounding the director.
“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen,” the meticulous Bresson once famously said, hinting at »
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Ordet – review
8 March 2012 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The strangeness of this gripping and eerie tragedy of the supernatural benefits in some ways from its theatrical style
A gripping and eerie tragedy of the supernatural and an unmissable re-release (made in 1955), though my personal view is that it falls a millimetre short of Day of Wrath or The Passion of Joan Of Arc on account of its overtly theatrical compositions: two characters in dialogue scenes will speak and face outward, as if to an imaginary auditorium. Yet perhaps even this stylisation adds to its strangeness and cumulative power. A widowed farmer, Morten, is oppressed by life's cares: his three grownup sons have all distressed him; his closest bond is with his pregnant daughter-in-law, Inger. A confrontation with his pious neighbour leads to this man calling for a grotesque "miracle" for Morten – and this gripping film sets about giving birth to one. Part of its power lies in the »
- Peter Bradshaw
The Forgotten: Epic Movie
7 March 2012 8:40 PM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
The first in a short series celebrating the films of the Pathé-Natan company, 1926-1934.
The late silents and early talkies of France are arguably neglected in comparison with, say, the German cinema. Yet at Pathé-Natan, work was produced which rivals in sophistication that of any other country you care to name. Directors from France, Germany and Russia worked there, innovating and developing under the umbrella of a distinctive "house style." Time they had their due.
La merveilleuse vie de Jeanne d'Arc (1929), directed by Marco de Gastyne, was a big hit: it easily beat Dreyer's La passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928) at the box office, benefitting, in the eyes of French audiences, from having a real Frenchwoman as Joan. The Dreyer was a multi-national co-production, but what audiences overlooked was that the Gastyne film was produced by a Romanian Jewish emigre, Bernard Natan, who had bought control of Pathé, the country's most distinguished film company. »
Five silent films to shout about
2 March 2012 6:32 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Intrigued by The Artist but don't know where to start exploring the silent film archives? Try these five classics, which lead to plenty more…
It doesn't take long for a novelty to be hailed as a trend. Internet film rental service Lovefilm reports that the buzz around The Artist has sparked a boom in curiosity about early cinema, with a 40% rise in the number of people streaming silent films on its site in the week leading up to the Oscars.
The top 10 most-streamed silents include a clutch of Buster Keaton's ingenious comedies, some heady Hollywood melodrama (A Fool There Was, starring Theda Bara, and The Son of the Sheikh, with Rudolph Valentino) and creepy Swedish horror The Phantom Carriage. There are only two films on the list that seem to bear any relation to Michel Hazanavicius's surprise hit: Frank Borzage's mournful romance Seventh Heaven (which inspired the »
- Pamela Hutchinson
Oscar's big miss: 'Singin' in the Rain'
25 February 2012 9:58 AM, PST | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
It seemed an easy task when I told Guy and Gerard to follow Roth's lead and help me turn the idea of "Oscar's big miss" into a quick mini-series at the end of the season. Roth's pick was undeniable. Gerard's was inspired. Guy's was well-spotted. What would I spring for? Look, the truth is there are a lot of movies the Academy hasn't properly recognized over the last 84 years, and they go all the way to near the beginning. "Metropolis," "The Passion of Joan of Arc," "City Lights," "King Kong," "Modern Times," "Sullivan's Travels," "Paths of Glory," "The Last Temptation »
- Kristopher Tapley
This week's new film events
24 February 2012 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Movies At The Mansion, Luton
A classier interpretation of pop-up cinema here: screenings in the opulent state rooms of Wrest Park, recently reopened after a major restoration of its gardens. After a free screening of The Gruffalo for kids, there's a choice of movies by Stanley Kubrick (whose own mansion wasn't far from here). The epic 18th-century sweep of Barry Lyndon should look right at home in these surroundings, while The Shining at least offers labyrinthine topiary for the gardening set. Kubrick's producer Jan Harlan introduces the screenings.
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The Passion Of Carl Dreyer, London
Most of Carl Dreyer's films were considered failures at the time; today many of them are considered masterpieces, particularly his best-known works, The Passion Of Joan Of Arc and Vampyr. Beautifully crafted, grippingly dramatic and infused with an uncanny spiritual intensity, his movies seem to come from another place – or at least »
- Steve Rose
Movie Experts Pick Top 10 Silent Films
23 January 2012 2:01 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Film buffs at America's TCM classic movies TV network have listed Hollywood's 10 best silent classics as a salute to this year's black and white Oscars favourite The Artist.
D.W. Griffith's 1915 Civil War movie The Birth of a Nation makes the list, as does Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments and Lon Chaney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
The most recent film on the list is 1928's The Passion of Joan of Arc, starring Renee Maria Falconetti. »
TCM Celebrates The Artist With List Of 10 Most Influential Silent Films
18 January 2012 2:09 PM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has unveiled its list of 10 Most Influential Silent Films in celebration of Michel Hazanavicius’ ode to the silent era, The Artist, which won three Golden Globes® Sunday night, including Best Picture . Musical or Comedy, Best Actor . Musical or Comedy for Jean Dujardin and Best Original Score. The Artist also picked up 12 British Academy Film Award nominations. The Weinstein Company will expand its release of The Artist nationwide on Friday.
TCM’s list of 10 Most Influential Silent Films spans from the years 1915 to 1928 and features such remarkable films as D.W. Griffith’s groundbreaking (and controversial) The Birth of a Nation (1915), which revolutionized filmmaking techniques; Nanook of the North (1922), a film frequently cited as the first feature-length documentary; Cecil B. DeMille’s epic silent version of The Ten Commandments (1923); Sergei Eisenstein’s oft-imitated Battleship Potemkin (1925), which took montage techniques to an entirely new level; and Fritz Lang’s »
- Michelle McCue
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