“If you look at my portrait of Marian Anderson, it's clear the degree to which Dreyer's Joan of Arc affected me.” -Richard Avedon, Berkeley, 3/18/80.

“Austere Carl Dreyer masterpiece shows the anguish of the French peasant girl during the last day of her trial and her execution. Remarkable both for the starkness of the decor and for Dreyer's frequent use of enormous close-ups, and also for the intensity of Marie Falconetti's performance which was a tour de force and one of the greatest of all silent screen portrayals. The cameraman was Polish-born Rudolph Mate who worked again with Dreyer on Vampyr and later, in Hollywood, with Wyler (Dodsworth), Hitchcock (Foreign Correspondent), and Charles Vidor (Cover Girl, Gilda).” -R.A.E.P.