The score to "Passion of Joan of Arc"

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i'm generally adverse to these (anachronistic?) couplings of silent films with various contemporary soundscapes, from new music oratorios to drum n bass to cat power to what have you--not on principle, but because nine times out of ten the results are close to dire and certainly don't do any justice to the film being accompanied.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 09:57 (twenty years ago) link

So, if you take amateurist at his word, you've totally ruined the film for yourself forever, the damage undoable. No matter. It's not even among the five best films Dreyer directed. (Well, I guess it might be the fifth-best, but I do cherish Master of the House so.)

certainly don't do any justice to the film being accompanied

or the music, to be fair... At any rate, whatever piece of shit is on my Man with a Movie Camera DVD is to be muted.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 10:56 (twenty years ago) link

aarrrgh the alloy orchestra don't get me started! they are goddam abomination

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 11:04 (twenty years ago) link

fourteen years pass...

Saw a version of this tonight in a freezing church with an "early music" choir. I'm fairly certain I haven't seen it before (and hadn't realised it is considered a "classic") but bits of it seemed familiar. Is there another context I might have seen parts? (I wonder if images have been used on a record sleeve or similar??)

― djh, Friday, 9 February 2018 00:23 (six years ago) link

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