BAM Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Ave
718.636.4100
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The Passion of Joan of Arc
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Mar 13, 2009 – Mar 31, 2009
Daily (schedule)
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- Price
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$11
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Many of the screenings feature live piano accompaniment by Donald Sosin.
The great Danish early-cinema auteur Carl Theodor Dreyer produced otherworldly art out of basic, reactive elements — namely faith, family, and that age-old arc toward redemption. With its stark aesthetic and lingering, melancholy camera work, a Dreyer film achieves an oceanic emotional effect via the director's belief in intensive technique. Take The Passion of Joan of Arc (1927): Dreyer transforms his sullen martyr into cinema's Mona Lisa through repeated, haunting close-ups — a near-wordless buildup that reduced Anna Karina (among many) to tears. Beginning with his assured debut, The President (1918), and bracketed by his last experimental opus, Gertrud (1964), BAM's Dreyer-til-you-drop retrospective also features the supreme expressionist horror movie Vampyr (1931), and Ordet (1954), which tracks a pious father and his schismatic sons.
