The Passion of Joan of Arc

(Carl Theodore Dreyer). Carl Theodore Dreyer’s 1928 feature is the one of the culminating masterpieces of European silent cinema. Shot almost entirely in close-up, the movie is ecstatically claustrophobic.
Fri., March 13, 6:50 & 9:15 p.m., 2009

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