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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Passion of Joan of Arc at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Joan of Arc was instrumental in chasing the English out of France, although Paris was still held by Burgundians at the time of her death.
		Joan of Arc was eventually captured by the pro-English French, who held her as a prisoner for some time before she finally was put on trial.
		Joan, memorably portrayed by Maria Falconetti, is frequently brought to tears from her piety and the cruelty of the clergy.
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	The Passion of Joan of Arc
		The "passion" in Carl-Theodore Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc refers in part to the elemental, all-encompassing religious conviction of its heroine, who believes so deeply in the God who has called her that her Christianity, like other forms of passion, cannot easily be expressed in words to the outside world.
		Joan's emotions themselves are the things on trial, disturbing as they are to a scholarly and élite group of men who believe themselves to be close to God but who have no context for the urgent religious sensations of which this young, illiterate girl speaks.
		Despite some mawkish end titles describing Joan's spirit as "the white soul of France," The Passion of Joan of Arc is not terribly interested in resolving the ambiguities of its heroine's spirituality, her convictions, or her subversive personal politics.
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	The Passion of Joan of Arc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Passion of Joan of Arc (French: La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc) is a silent film produced in France in 1928.
		Passion was originally intended to use the new technology of sound, but Dreyer did not have sufficient financing and so the film is silent.
		Actress Renée Jeanne Falconetti in a scene from The Passion of Joan of Arc.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Passion_of_Joan_of_Arc (590 words)

	La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (The Passion of Joan of Arc)
		The story of tPoJoA is monomaniacal: over the entire course of the film, the energies of the story are directed to drive home the conflict between the Church's steadfast belief that Joan's presence undermines the Church and Joan's steadfast conviction that she is doing the work of God.
		Throughout the film, Joan is rarely portrayed centered in the frame; frequently her face runs diagonal to the frame, or the camera is held at a Dutch angle, or her eyeline creates an abnormal horizon line, or her head is framed off-center.
		Joan voluntarily walking to the stake - even grabbing the loose cords which bind her to the post to make the executioner's job easier - is as poignant as anything I've ever seen, on film or off.
	www.metalasylum.com /ragingbull/movies/passionofjoan.html (2956 words)

	The Passion of Joan of Arc
		Century France, Joan of Arc is on trial for heresy in front of a court of French religious judges who are sympathetic to the English.
		Joan claims that she will be delivered from prison "by a great victory", although she doesn’t realize this deliverance will be spiritual rather than physical.
		Joan’s suffering is then echoed by the widespread suffering in the crowd: soldiers brutally beat unarmed people, a child is seeing crying alongside a fallen parent, a cannon is fired into the melee.
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	The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, France, 110 min (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"Passion" is a word that is operating on more than one level here: the religious sense (as in the Christ Passion, the last hours of Christ) and in the more general sense of the word.
		Joan is on trial for religious heresy, but clearly there are political underpinnings to her indictment.
		The Passion of Joan of Arc is celebrated for its use of close-ups.
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	CINETEXT The Passion of Joan of Arc
		Joan, during a subsequent battle, was captured by Frenchmen involved with the English, the Burgundians, and they sold her to the English.
		Joan is taken to a small room, a cell, in which she is kept and she sees on the floor the shadow of the window's bars have formed a cross, which gives her comfort.
		The explorations of history, law, and faith, of Joan of Arc's exalted participation in the war between the English and French, presented with Dreyer's inventive technique—the different angles for Joan and her judges, the close-ups, and the occlusion of anything extraneous to the main action and content of the story—remain admirable.
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	The Passion of St. Joan of Arc by Ryan McMaken
		It would make more sense to compare Gibson’s film to other films that are themselves passion tales, and while reviewing the recent smear campaign against Gibson’s film I am reminded of another passion film that has become available on DVD in recent years: Carl Dreyer’s 1928 masterpiece The Passion of Joan of Arc.
		In its depiction of the heroine of the Hundred Years’ War, La Passion was denounced as "Anti-English propaganda," censored by the British government, criticized for not focusing enough on the happier moments of Jeanne’s life, and eventually deemed a "harrowing and crushing" experience not suitable for viewing by ordinary people.
		Joan requested an appeal to the Pope, but this was illegally refused, and at Jeanne’s re-trial twenty-four years later, her original trial and her execution were declared in defiance of a myriad of ecclesiastical laws, and her sentence was annulled.
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	MetroActive Music \| Voices of Light
		The Maid of Orleans, as Joan of Arc came to be known, has fired the imaginations of countless artists and writers, including Voltaire, Anatole France and George Bernard Shaw, who wryly dubbed her the first Protestant.
		Although she was a devout Catholic, Joan of Arc took a crucial step away from the grip of the Church when she chose to honor her personal relationship with God over her duty to organized religion.
		Joan's text is extracted from the Bible, her own letters and the writings of the 13th-century penitent Blessed Angela of Foligno and other female mystics.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/08.01.96/joan-arc-9631.html (1584 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: The Passion Of Joan Arc review
		This film begins with the trial of Joan of Arc, a young woman who claims she is the messenger of God.
		Joan's torment at the trial is the main point of focus as the questions and accusations continue, with even a torture chamber coming into play.
		All of Joan's emoting becomes ponderous and tiresome because it is not based in truth.
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	CIRCA Art Magazine - Online review - Carl Dreyer: The passion of Joan of Arc (La passion de Jeanne d'Arc), 1928, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1431 Joan of Arc was tried and condemned as a heretic in the castle tower of a château in Rouen, France, the then seat of the English occupying government.
		Joan's inner turmoil is palpable as she struggles, not just with her accusers, but also with her own conscience, as she tries to understand and come to terms with her spiritual destiny.
		Joan's jailers make her a grass crown and mock her by having her pose in the attitude of a saint.
	www.recirca.com /reviews/2005/joanofarc/joan.shtml (1740 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| The Passion of Joan of Arc
		Carl Dreyer’s 1928 masterpiece about the trial and death of France’s fifteenth-century warrior-maiden reverses the cliché that "life imitates art." Like Joan, it was "denounced, cut, and burned," a story told at length on this DVD that in its way is as fascinating as the film itself.
		"The close quarter combat between Joan and her judges" is how Dreyer described his vision of the film, but the "combat" takes place mostly on a spiritual plane, in the sorrowful stares and sudden illuminations that cross the face of Falconetti intercut with the warts-and-all faces of her tormentors.
		Joan is seen mostly in isolated shots, emblems of her lonely battle against the church and the military, but behind her the viewer is always aware of the serene, almost glowing white walls, a constant reminder of Joan’s purity and transcendence in the face of corrupt earthly forces.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /27/joanofarc.html (1563 words)

	DVD Savant Review: The Passion of Joan of Arc
		Captured general Joan of Arc is handed to the Holy Office for trial, to be treated not as a vanquished foe, but as a heretic.
		The continuity is reestablished, with Joan being brought out several times, refusing to confess, only to give in from utter exhaustion allows her to be deceived by her cruel inquisitors.
		Joan goes to her fate as alone as a human possibly can be, and it's an unrelieved horror.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s545joan.html (966 words)

	DVD Times: Region 1 Reviews: The Passion of Joan of Arc
		In Joan's native France, Robert Bresson made The Trial of Joan of Arc in 1962 and more recently there was Luc Besson's treatment of the story, with Milla Jovovich in the lead.
		Her Joan goes through a whole range of emotions: vulnerability and later defiance, to simple wonder when the shadow of a window takes the form of a cross.
		The Passion of Joan of Arc is a silent film, and Dreyer did not authorise a score for it.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /reviews/region1/passionofjoanofarc.html (948 words)

	BBC - Films - review - La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (The Passion of Joan of Arc)
		In his silent, fl and white masterpiece of 1927, "La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc", Dreyer captured all three facets of her personality, drawing on a monumental performance from Renée Maria Falconetti as the French military leader turned martyred saint.
		Opening with Joan's trial, the film is comprised of a series of questions and answers, the threat of torture and, ultimately, her execution.
		Joan's experience as she's mocked, debased and left shaven-headed waiting for death, offers a terrifying glimpse of state-sanctioned murder that would, a few years later, claim millions of lives in Europe.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2003/06/23/la_passion_joan_arc_1927_review.shtml (465 words)

	Images - The Passion of Joan of Arc
		This doesn’t prevent the director from making grim hints at more visceral horrors, as in the montage of torture devices to be used on Joan that Dreyer cross-cuts with her face, or in the violent peasant uprising triggered by her death.
		Joan is seen mostly in isolated shots, emblems of her lonely battle against the church and the military, but behind her the viewer is always aware of the serene, almost glowing white walls, which symbolize her purity and transcendence in the face of corrupt earthly forces.
		The Passion of Joan of Arc is available on DVD from The Criterion Collection in a new transfer with digitally restored image and sound.
	www.imagesjournal.com /issue08/reviews/joanofarc/text.htm (1590 words)

	Combustible Celluloid film review - The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), Carl Theodor Dreyer, Maria Falconetti, Antonin ...
		In November of 1999, in conjunction with Luc Besson's The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (which was not a memorable film), the Criterion Collection released a new DVD version of The Passion of Joan of Arc.
		His original script was a sweeping epic (probably not unlike Besson's new film), but he scrapped it for the original transcripts of Joan of Arc's trial from the 15th century.
		Joan's face is resplendent, and her eyes are extraordinary.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /passjoan.shtml (1074 words)

	Joan Of Arc DVD Review La Passion Jeanne Carl Dreyer Criterion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Such is the case with one of the long lost masterpieces from Europe, Carl Theodor Dreyer's intensive dramatic depiction of LA PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC - THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC.
		LA PASSION DE JEANNE D'ARC is a French production, and not a Danish one, as some might have expected, and this fact was one of the major problems for the excentric director in even making the film.
		The dramatic texture had its foundation in Dreyer's way of producing La Passion de Jeanne D'Arc; the sequences were shot chronologically in the hope to get the actors more involved in their parts.
	www.dvdscan.com /dreyerjoan.htm (901 words)

	The Passion of Joan of Arc movie Review at The Z Review UK movie review
		Joan believes God is speaking to her, and telling her to behave certain ways, etc. For much of the trial, she is defiant against persecution.
		You might believe Joan is a heroine, a woman who values the individual pursuit of spirituality, against the tyranny of the church.
		Joan, as well, looks more genuine, for she looks like the plain, common person she is. Other numerous images are just as effective with or without sound, and any open-minded person should at least try to view what is considered the most celebrated of silent films.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /reviews/p/passionofjoanofarcthe.htm (968 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - The Passion of Joan of Arc (Criterion Collection) (1928) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dreyer recreates the trial and execution of St. Joan with near-documentary authenticity, as if one were present at the actual 15th century event and both defendant and accusers were the genuine article.
		Passion of Joan of Arc is a silent film, but the original transcripts of Joan's trial are brilliantly conveyed by the pantomime of the actors.
		The entrance of Jean (Joan) at the beginning is one of the most startling scenes I've ever seen, for the sheer ordinariness of her look.
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=4143 (512 words)

	Amazon.com: The Passion of Joan of Arc - Criterion Collection: DVD: Maria Falconetti,Eugene Silvain,André ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although the story is epic in its implications, the film is composed primarily of extreme close-ups, especially of Joan and her principal interrogator, Bishop Cauchon, and medium shots of small groups, often shot from low angles.
		Joan believed she was the blessed daughter of God and had been inspired by heavenly visions.
		The plot is based on the preserved transcripts of Joan of Arc's 1431 trial, in which she was accused of being under the influence of the devil, and condemned to die.
	www.amazon.com /Passion-Joan-Arc-Criterion-Collection/dp/0780022343 (3376 words)

	The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (1928) - Channel 4 Film review
		From the film's title, The Passion Of Joan Of Arc, parallels are made between the central character and Jesus, not just in the nature of their deaths, but in such details as soldiers mockingly placing a crown of thorns on Joan's head.
		Devoid of make-up, and filmed primarily in close-up, she memorably conveys Joan's physical ordeal and her spiritual defiance, which ultimately refuses to be crushed by the (male) forces of State and Church.
		A brilliant marriage of style and content, The Passion Of Joan Of Arc is a work of formalist beauty and emotional power, with a luminous central performance from Falconetti.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=106951 (400 words)

	Amazon.com: The Passion of Joan of Arc: Video: Maria Falconetti,Eugene Silvain,André Berley,Maurice Schutz,Antonin ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dreyer's account of Joan of Arc-- legendary heroine and universal symbol of faith and bravery--centers on her trial and execution.
		It seemed as though she became Joan from the start, and as she presented her role, she seemed to almost be consumed by the spirit of Joan's demise herself.
		Passion was one of more than a dozen silent films made about Joan of Arc.
	www.amazon.com /Passion-Joan-Arc-Maria-Falconetti/dp/B00001REAJ (3265 words)

	Xiibaro Reviews: Gladiator and The Passion of Joan of Arc
		One of the biggest mistakes in the Besson film is that it portrays Joan as being a defiant leader, a portrayal that does not fit history.
		Then compare this to the portrait of Joan in Passion, one of a pious, scared, and rueful woman that cannot come to terms with where her God has placed her.
		Jeanne, more commonly known as Joan, is less scared of what the tribunal will do to her as what God will do if she tells them she was not speaking to him.
	www.cinema-scene.com /archive/02/18.html (1545 words)

	Le Passion de Jeanne d'Arc
		There are no details about who Joan is or what she has done, nor are there any details of her interrogators or their political alignment.
		Joan's pain is palpable and it is said that Dreyer had Falconetti kneel on stone floors until her discomfort was unbearable and that he repeatedly reshot footage (in an act akin to the psychological torture displayed by the clergy in the film) to refine the nuances of an expression.
		Joan becomes empowered and this victim becomes strong, a moral figure demanding great respect as her truth will condemn her.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/00/5/passion.html (1095 words)

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