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Posted by Sean | Feb 28th, 2009
Carl Dreyer’s “The Passion of Joan of Arc”
It’s Easy to Become Passionate About “The Passion of Joan of Arc”
Once in a while, a film comes along which is so brilliant and insightful it needs no vocals — or even dialogue subtitling, on occasion — to get its message across. 1928’s The Passion of Joan of Arc is just such an example. Directed in newly-developed panchromatic black-and-white film stock by Carl Theodore...