Working method

When grand ambitions meet the harsh realities of filmmaking

07. apr 2021. The conflict between artistic ambitions and economic realities runs through the history of cinema. A famous and often cited example of this ongoing conflict took place 100 years ago in the

Perilous Performance: Dreyer's Unity of Danger and Beauty

Carl Th. Dreyer has been called everything from misunderstood genius, to reserved bourgeois director, to “The Tyrannical Dane” as Paul Moor put it in his 1951 article in which, consequently, he also

The Tyrannical Dane

"The Tyrannical Dane" is an article by Paul Moor, published in Theatre Arts Magazine, April 1951. Thanks to Nick Wrigley - mastersofcinema.org/dreyer - we can bring it on carlthdreyer.dk. This

Jørgen Roos about Carl Th. Dreyer

Jørgen Roos regarded Dreyer as “the great master” and admired him greatly. He dedicated a whole chapter in his unpublished memoirs to Dreyer in which he describes their working relationship and

Dreyer goes to Africa

22. dec 2017. In 1934, Dreyer was hired for a film project to be shot in Africa. He wrote, together with the Italian journalist Ernesto Quadrone, a screenplay - "L'Homme ensablé" - and subsequently traveled to