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Although the output of Danish film director Carl Dreyer (1889-1968) was slim by Hollywood standards, he was nonetheless a master of early cinema. His insistence on artistic independence and the person...
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Critical Essay by Kirk Bond
[It is difficult if not impossible to assess Dreyer's] later films without knowing the earlier films. One might go further. All or nearly all of the later films are ...
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Critical Essay by Paul Schrader
Dreyer was not an unwavering formalist; he did not define a single style throughout his career….
Each of Dreyer's individual film "styles" i...
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Critical Essay by Dai Vaughan
What kind of experiences shock the soul? What manner of abstraction is required for these spiritual experiences to be presented on film? Taking the Christian terms ...
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Critical Essay by Vlada Petric
Regrettably, most critics try to explain Dreyer's cinematic style by analysing and interpreting solely the literary component of his films, that is, his manuscrip...
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Critical Essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum
[De Naede Faergen (They Caught the Ferry) is an] adept Hitchcockian exercise. Devoted almost exclusively to the tension and exhilaration of speeding down a country...
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Critical Essay by AndrÉ TÉchinÉ
[There] is no film-maker more rudimentary than Dreyer. Unqualified to lay down the law or to pressurise in any way, Dreyer makes talking pictures c...
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Critical Essay by Harry Schein
[All Dreyer's films] deal with man on the outer borders of his being. I believe that the land beyond this border is really of no interest to Dreyer. It makes no d...
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Critical Essay by Ken Kelman
The President was Dreyer's first film, not the least pleasing visually, but the least personal. Still, there are many anticipations of what is to follow. The settin...
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Carl Theodor Dreyer
Critical Essay by Kirk Bond
