Screening Date: Tue. Mar. 18, 2025
Time: 7:30
Venue: Parkway Theater
Cost: $15 adv. | $20 door
Run Time/Year/Country: 114min, 1928, France
Director: Carl Dreyer

Rare screening of the 1928 French silent film, The Passion of Joan of Arc, by acclaimed Danish director Carl Dreyer. Widely considered a landmark in cinema due to its production design, Dreyer’s direction, and the powerful performance by lead actress, Renée Jeanne Falconetti, the film will be live-scored with a performance featuring new work by Paris 1919, the musical collective of celebrated composer Chris Strouth and select Twin Cities musicians, including Natalie Nowytski (a classically-trained vocalist-turned-folk music geek who sings in 50+ languages and 12+ distinct vocal styles), guitarist Kent Militzer, and multi-instrumentalist David J. Russ. Strouth’s work has been described as “aggressively ambient,” and this new composition complete with a five-piece choir promises to be the perfect accompaniment to this iconic film, that is perhaps even more impactful today than upon its release almost one hundred years ago.