<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">oh hell yes - see THE PASSION OF JEANNE D'ARC as soon as possible. that's required viewing for all human beings. my favorite dreyer for sure.<br><br>i always hate these lists and usually view them with disbelief. i just saw some top 10 greatest films of all time and was glad to see JEANNE on the list, but it had a lot of other misfires ... anyway - this is all horribly subjective of course. <br><br>i might post my top 100 here soon ... i can never get it down to 10.<br><br><div> </div>Phillip Greenlief<br>1075 Aileen Street Apt B<br>Oakland, CA 94608<br>510-501-7110<div><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">From:</span></b> Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen@hotmail.de><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Dave Monroe <against.the.dave@gmail.com>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l@waste.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, August 2, 2012 4:06:51 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: The Greatest Films of All Time 2012<br></font><br>
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The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time
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Number 9: Dreyer's <i>The Passion of Joan of Arc</i><br>
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Heavily debated in the Weimar Republic. Was liked by people as
diverse as Thomas Mann (who said that the movie must impress all who
believe in the possibility of the spiritualization of movies) and
Carl Schmitt. Schmitt watched the movie - in which he recognized
aspects of his own fate and motives - about a dozen times in just
half a year. Took friends, acquaintances and prostitutes to the
cinema to join him. <br>
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Must admit that I haven't seen it yet. Shall I order the DVD? <br>
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For some pictures plus the Thomas Mann quote see here:<br>
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About Schmitt's fascination by the movie Reinhard Mehring (Carl
Schmitt. Aufstieg und Fall. p 231) writes: "Mit Karl Eschweiler
zusammen besucht er einen Stummfilm-Klassiker über die Passion der
Johanna von Orleans, der ihn - Magie des 'Lichtspielwesens' (VRA,
369) - derart beeindruckt, das er tagelang darüber spricht. Der Film
stellt auf die Spannung zwischer religiöser Berufung und kirchlicher
Verurteilung ab, auf das Martyrium der Laienreligiösität gegen eine
weltliche Kirche. Schmitt sieht hier wohl - über die
nationalistische Freiheitskämpferin hinaus - auch seinen kirchlichen
Prozess gespiegelt, die ungerechte Verurteilung durch eine weltliche
Kirche. Die nächsten Monate wird er diverse Bekannte, Freunde und
auch Prostituierte in den Film schleppen. Binnen einen halben Jahres
sieht er ihn über zehn Mal."<br>
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