Critical analysis of landmark international and independent cinema-Carl Theodor Dreyer ...

Carl Theodor Dreyer, director, born in Denmark-1889.

Film has always been considered something of a mongrel art form, inherently populist and therefore of dubious aesthetic value, and lacking even a firm identity since it s distilled from other arts such as photography and the theatre. One effect of this axiom has been a severe lack of standards in ranking films and filmmakers. After the brief A-list of Welles, Renoir, Eisenstein, and a few ...