Theodor Dreyer
What do you consider to be the top 5 historical films?
10 points for the best-supported, most knowledgeable answer.
Mine are:
1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)-Carl Theodor Dreyer
2. Andrei Rublev (1966)-Andrei Tarkovsky
3. Battleship Potemkin (1925)-Sergei Eisenstein
4. Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972)-Wernor Herzog
5. Napoleon (1927)-Abel Gance
Runners-up: The Leopard (1963), Birth of a Nation (1915), Intolerance (1917), Gone with the Wind (1939), Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) and Henry V (1944).
Historical, as in set in an important period in history, and generally (but not necessarily) dealing with real people, not as in the historical importance of the film.
i am going to agree with your list. I would add Roland Joffe’s The Mission, the forgotten Milius classic The Wind and The Lion and the overlooked by teenage girls because it doesn’t have Leonardo DiCRaprio A Night To Remember.
it is nice to see someone in Yahoo Answers who takes their movie watching seriously and doesn’t think that Pirates of the Caribbean is the best movie ever made.
Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932)
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The Passion of Joan of Arc [VHS] $13.98 Carl Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc is as truly mythic as any film ever shot, its artistic achievement rivaled by its turbulent history. The focal point of controversy when released in 1928, the original film was lost for a half-century until an intact copy of Dreyer’s original version was recovered in the early ’80s.Seeing Joan of Arc today remains a cinematic revelation, its approach to sto… |
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Vampyr [VHS] $10.00 In this chilling, atmospheric film from 1932, Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer favors style over story, offering a minimal plot that draws only partially from established vampire folklore. Instead, Dreyer emphasizes an utterly dreamlike visual approach, using trick photography (double exposures, etc.) and a fog-like effect created by allowing additional light to leak onto the exposed film. The … |
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Ordet [VHS] $29.95 One of the most powerful and profound films about faith ever made, Carl Dreyer’s Ordet (which translates to “The Word”) turns a Romeo and Juliet story into a passionately spiritual drama of love and acceptance. Young lovers in a rural farming community are kept apart by the religious differences of their parents. But although the parents appear strict and ascetic, Dreyer gives them tender moments … |
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The Passion of Joan of Arc (The Criterion Collection) $23.77 Dramatizes the trial of the country girl who led the armies of France in triumph against the English.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: UNRelease Date: 9-NOV-1999Media Type: DVD… |
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Vampyr (The Criterion Collection) $27.08 One of the earliest and best vampire-based horror films, Carl Theodor Dreyer’s moody, dreamlike thriller centers on a traveler whose stay at an isolated castle is beset by a series of hauntingly surreal visions–including a shadow that seems to move on its own, a scythe-wielding figure, and a horrifying dream of being buried alive. Julian West and Maurice Schultz star. 75 min. Standard; Soundtrack… |
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Carl Theodor Dreyer Set (Day of Wrath / Ordet / Gertrud / My Metier) (The Criterion Collection) $43.95 No Description Available.Genre: Foreign Film – SwedishRating: UNRelease Date: 21-AUG-2001Media Type: DVD… |
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Photo Jigsaw Puzzle of PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC. The French actress Maria Falconetti as the title from Granger Art on Demand $24.99 Photo Puzzle, PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC. The French actress Maria Falconetti as the title. PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC. The French actress Maria Falconetti as the title character in a scene from the silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928. Chosen by Granger Art on Demand. 10×14 Photo Puzzle with 252 pieces. Packed in black cardboard box of dimensions 5 5/8 x 7 5/8 x 1… |
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Transcendental Style In Film (Da Capo Paperback) $10.19 The acclaimed director of Mishima, American Gigolo, Hard Core, Blue Collar, Cat People also the screenwriter for Taxi Driver, Paul Schrader here analyzes the film style of three great directorsâYasajiro Ozu, Robert Bresson, Carl Dreyerâand posits a common dramatic language by these artists from divergent cultures. Unlike the style of psychological realism, which dominates film, the trans… |
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Carl Theodor Dreyer and Ordet: My Summer with the Danish Filmmaker (Screen Classics) $24.95 Regarded by many filmmakers and critics as one of the greatest directors in cinema history, Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889–1968) achieved worldwide acclaim after the debut of his masterpiece, The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), which was named the most influential film of all time at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. In 1955 Dreyer granted twenty-three-year-old American student Jan Wahl the… |
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