Carl Theodor Dreyer and Odet My Summer With the Danish Filmmaker by Jan Wahl (University Press of Kentucky, 192 pages, $40) THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day.

Half a decade after it was thought lost, this influential silent movie was rediscovered in a hospital cupboard.

Renée Marie Falconetti as Joan, in Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1927 'The Passion of Joan of Arc' Dreyer was born in 1889. His mother was the maid of a Danish farmer working in Sweden. After time spent in an ...

As much as we'd love to believe certain myths, no filmmaker has simply waltzed into making a masterpiece without cutting their teeth beforehand. Jaws may have been the first modern blockbuster, but ...

Following The Passion of Joan of Arc, each subsequent movie Dreyer made seemed to advance toward a nirvana of material calm.Gertrud (1964), his swan song, is a memory melodrama told through ...

Carl Theodor Dreyer (3 February 1889 – 20 March 1968), commonly known as Carl Th. Dreyer, was a Danish film director. He is regarded by many critics ...

Writes THR's Todd McCarthy: "Above all, this memoir provides the special service of greatly humanizing one of the most imposing and singular of the old masters, a prolific figure during the silent ...

Carl Theodor Dreyer believed in miracles. He said so to an interviewer in 1955, in a discussion about the Danish director’s body of work: “I believe that there are human beings endowed with ...

Thomson’s lecture will be titled “Of Bridges, Boulders and Bacteria: Cultures of Nature and Technology in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Short Films for Dansk Kulturfilm, 1942–1954” and is sponsored by ...

The chance to see all 14 of the great Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer's full-length films and a selection of his shorts during the BFI’s season is unique. Conviction and mysticism are central to ...