“Something made to move has to move a crowd”, Dreyer once stated. Dreyer wanted mass catharsis, the way Greek theatre did, or maybe the way college...
Film historian David Bordwell draws our attention to Dreyer’s debut, The President, which is usually regarded as a second-tier work. The President is...
In this essay Claire Thomson from University College London explores how sculpture in Thorvaldsen and in Dreyer’s cinema more generally serves to...
Throughout his career, Carl Theodor Dreyer was concerned with arranging all of the details in the staging of his films as precisely as possible...
In February 1967, Dreyer met with the American professor Dr. Dale D. Drum, who had come to Denmark to research a book about Dreyer and his films...