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THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC W/ LORI GOLDSTON
1928
Director
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Starring
Maria Falconetti
Eugène Silvain
André Berley
Maurice Schutz
Antonin Artaud
Runtime
81 minutes
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Cellist LORI GOLDSTON provides live accompaniment to one of the most transcendent masterpieces of the silent era!
Spiritual rapture and institutional hypocrisy come to stark, vivid life in THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC. Chronicling the trial of Joan of Arc in the hours leading up to her execution, Danish master Carl Theodor Dreyer depicts her torment with startling immediacy, employing an array of techniques—expressionistic lighting, interconnected sets, painfully intimate close-ups—to immerse viewers in her subjective experience. Anchoring Dreyer's audacious formal experimentation is a legendary performance by Renée Falconetti, whose haunted face channels both the agony and the ecstasy of martyrdom.
”Dreyer's most universally acclaimed masterpiece remains one of the most staggeringly intense films ever made.” - Tony Rayns, Time Out
”This is neither a hopeful nor a hopeless film, but one of feeling so colossal and resplendent, it can't be constrained by prison or consumed by fire.” - Jaime N. Christley
”Dreyer's radical approach to constructing space and the slow intensity of his mobile style make this 'difficult' in the sense that, like all the greatest films, it reinvents the world from the ground up.” - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, possessor of a restless, semi-feral spirit, LORI GOLDSTON is a cellist, composer, improvisor, producer, writer and teacher from Seattle. Her voice as a cellist, amplified or acoustic, is full, textured, committed and original. A relentless inquirer, her work drifts freely across borders that separate genre, discipline, time and geography.
Spiritual rapture and institutional hypocrisy come to stark, vivid life in THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC. Chronicling the trial of Joan of Arc in the hours leading up to her execution, Danish master Carl Theodor Dreyer depicts her torment with startling immediacy, employing an array of techniques—expressionistic lighting, interconnected sets, painfully intimate close-ups—to immerse viewers in her subjective experience. Anchoring Dreyer's audacious formal experimentation is a legendary performance by Renée Falconetti, whose haunted face channels both the agony and the ecstasy of martyrdom.
”Dreyer's most universally acclaimed masterpiece remains one of the most staggeringly intense films ever made.” - Tony Rayns, Time Out
”This is neither a hopeful nor a hopeless film, but one of feeling so colossal and resplendent, it can't be constrained by prison or consumed by fire.” - Jaime N. Christley
”Dreyer's radical approach to constructing space and the slow intensity of his mobile style make this 'difficult' in the sense that, like all the greatest films, it reinvents the world from the ground up.” - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, possessor of a restless, semi-feral spirit, LORI GOLDSTON is a cellist, composer, improvisor, producer, writer and teacher from Seattle. Her voice as a cellist, amplified or acoustic, is full, textured, committed and original. A relentless inquirer, her work drifts freely across borders that separate genre, discipline, time and geography.