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The Artist's Touch: Dreyer, Thorvaldsen, Venus

In this essay Claire Thomson from University College London explores how sculpture in Thorvaldsen and in Dreyer’s cinema more generally serves to pose questions about film art, about the nature of…

Paul Auster about 'the word'

22. dec 2017. In his novel Invisible (2009) Paul Auster sends one of his characters to the cinema to watch Dreyer’s Ordet (The Word). He experiences the miracle at the end of the film as a transcendent moment that…

Dreyer goes to Africa

22. dec 2017. In 1934, Dreyer was hired for a film project to be shot in Africa. He wrote, together with the Italian journalist Ernesto Quadrone, a screenplay - "L'Homme ensablé" - and subsequently traveled to…

Perilous Performance: Dreyer's Unity of Danger and Beauty

Carl Th. Dreyer has been called everything from misunderstood genius, to reserved bourgeois director, to “The Tyrannical Dane” as Paul Moor put it in his 1951 article in which, consequently, he also…

Dreyer’s Jesus – A Jew among Jews

Dreyer’s Jesus-film—to judge from the excellence of the screenplay—could have added to posterity’s invaluable works of art. The film was never realized, but Dreyer had very clear intentions of…

An Unrealised Lifelong Dream - Dreyer's Jesus Film

Carl Th. Dreyer’s "Jesus film" may well be the most widely discussed never-made film in film history. From a close reading of Dreyer’s screenplay, theologian Jes Nysten offers an in-depth look at…

Two films in Berlin Generation

19. dec 2017 | BERLINALE. The animation film 'The Incredible Story of the Giant Pear' is invited to the Berlin Film Festival's children's film competition Generation Kplus, while the debut film 'Denmark' will be in the youth…

Carl Dreyer's Michael - Digitalization and the rediscovery of a classic kammerspiel-film

18. dec 2017. This brief article traces the popular and critical reception of Dreyer’s Michael (1924) from its theatrical release to its DVD editions. Michael was largely considered a lost and forgotten…