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 ...

Claire Thomson, head of the Department of Scandinavian Studies at University College London, will deliver the annual Loftur Bjarnason lecture Wednesday, March 30, at 3 p.m. in 238 Herald R. Clark ...

Seven Days is 30, and we need your help to celebrate. With your donation, we’ll stay on track, delivering rigorous reporting on Vermont news and culture. One of the many, many close-ups in The Passion ...

Originally released in 1924, Carl Theodor Dreyer's "Michael" was a film that was quite different from what audiences of the time were used to. "Michael" is about a gay artist who loses his young male ...

Five years after the launch of Swedish website Ingmar Bergman Face to Face dedicated to the memory of its most celebrated filmmaker, Denmark has taken a similar initiative with its own film legend, ...

Cure, Mulholland Drive, and Don't Look Now are all among the scariest horror movies in the esteemed Criterion Collection.

"'Vampyr' is as close as you get to poetry in film," del Toro has said about Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1932 classic. With readers turning to their home viewing options more than ever, this daily feature ...