Hello, my name is Justin the Clue, and I'm here today with Will Slown, and you're listening

to The Important Cinema Club.

And today, we are discussing the work of Carl Theodore Dreher.

Dreyer?

Will, you got me all screwed up at the beginning.

It's Dreher, and when I was growing up at the beginning. It's Dreyer.

And when I was growing up and I was taught that film was in the profane realm, I was always attracted to film that was in the spiritual realm. And that's what we're going to be talking about today. Wow, I can't believe you got Paul Schrader to appear in the pot. Whoa, he's all muscular. he just took his shirt off and now he's dancing with all of his favorite celebrities.

Oh, get him off the AI. Get him off. Yeah, he had to, he had to leave. He's busy. Oh, he just flew away on his jetpack. But yes, we are talking about Carl Theodore dry. Sorry, here's the thing. Now I'm screwed up. Now, I got it right. You got it right. It's dryer. Yeah, when I said it, and Will went, I think it's Dreier.

No, the thing is, I'm screwed up. Now I got it right. You got it right. It's dryer.

Yeah, when I said it and Will went, I think it's Dreyer.

No, the thing is, I've been calling him Carl Theodore Dreyer for years. Seconds before we started recording, I was like, let's verify this. Let's make sure it's not Dreyer. It's Dreyer. It's Dreyer. Yeah.

What an awful way to start this episode.

That puts everybody on the

footing of what we'll follow when we discuss these films. Just two average Joe's, two bozos,

talking about the highest art that cinema has ever achieved. A subject that I feel like has been

covered a lot. He made many feature films before you hit The Passion of Joan of Arc, but they're not

very well regarded.

Yeah, I mean, in my layman's perspective of Dreyer's work, it's sort of divided into two

kinds of movies.

There's The Passion of the Joan of Arc and Vampier, you know, the two early ones.

And then Long Break, after the Second Second World War or actually beginning during the Second World War, you get Day of Rath or Dat Gertrude, which is a very different style of movie.

Or at least that's how I viewed it in my head before this week.

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