VAMPYR (1932)
with soundtrack, 75 minutes.
German audio with English subtitles.
Tickets: $25/$20
The session is presented with the assistance of the Danish Film Institute. Stephen Robertson, cinephile and loyal supporter of the sessions, will introduce the classic.
New restoration by the DFI of master director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s first foray into sound filmmaking with one of the finest and most enduringly mysterious of all horror films. Dreyer's ceaseless innovation delivers a tour-de-force of supernatural phantasmagoria and creeping unease, via audacious camerawork and sound design.
Guillermo del Tor described it as a unique film and supreme example of horror sensed rather than seen. A young man spends a night in a lonely inn and suspects that he is surrounded by vampires and has a dream of his own death. No outline of the vague, deliberately confused story can convey anything of the extraordinary atmosphere engendered by Vampyr.
Dreyer’s genius for creating mesmerising atmosphere and austere, unsettling imagery in the horror genre is on display in this excellent restoration. “The result—a chilling film about a student of the occult who encounters supernatural haunts and local evildoers in a village outside of Paris—is nearly unclassifiable. A host of stunning camera and editing tricks and densely layered sounds create a mood of dreamlike terror. With its roiling fogs, ominous scythes, and foreboding echoes, this masterpiece is one of cinema’s great nightmares.” Hitchcock’s view: “the only film worth watching- twice.”
German audio with English subtitles.
Tickets: $25/$20
The session is presented with the assistance of the Danish Film Institute. Stephen Robertson, cinephile and loyal supporter of the sessions, will introduce the classic.
New restoration by the DFI of master director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s first foray into sound filmmaking with one of the finest and most enduringly mysterious of all horror films. Dreyer's ceaseless innovation delivers a tour-de-force of supernatural phantasmagoria and creeping unease, via audacious camerawork and sound design.
Guillermo del Tor described it as a unique film and supreme example of horror sensed rather than seen. A young man spends a night in a lonely inn and suspects that he is surrounded by vampires and has a dream of his own death. No outline of the vague, deliberately confused story can convey anything of the extraordinary atmosphere engendered by Vampyr.
Dreyer’s genius for creating mesmerising atmosphere and austere, unsettling imagery in the horror genre is on display in this excellent restoration. “The result—a chilling film about a student of the occult who encounters supernatural haunts and local evildoers in a village outside of Paris—is nearly unclassifiable. A host of stunning camera and editing tricks and densely layered sounds create a mood of dreamlike terror. With its roiling fogs, ominous scythes, and foreboding echoes, this masterpiece is one of cinema’s great nightmares.” Hitchcock’s view: “the only film worth watching- twice.”
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