What I have done here is arrange in chronological order entries about films by Denmark’s Carl Theodor Dreyer that appear in two lists included elsewhere on this site, the 100 Greatest Films and the 100 Greatest Films from Germany, Scandinavia, Finland & Austria. 1919 LEAVES FROM SATAN’S BOOK. D. W. Griffith ponderously made Intolerance (1916) […]
Daily Archives: May 13, 2007
“Hungary in the 1950s. It was a time, my father used to say, when everybody he knew was either in jail or going to jail—or worse.” The parents of writer-director Éva Gárdos fled Stalinist Hungary. Zsuzsi, now Suzanne, grows up a rebellious teenager in cookie-cutter U.S. suburbia, toting a cultural identity crisis. Margit, Suzanne’s mother, […]
