IFC Center Screens a Restored Version of Day of Wrath

By Jessica Wall
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/blog/item/carl_theodor_dreyer_day_of_the_wrath_ifc_center_20080805/
Looking for a way to celebrate Labor Day? Why not attend a screening of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Day of Wrath (1943) at IFC Center? In an effort to honor the film’s 65th anniversary a brand-new restoration (each frame of the original negative was cleaned and digitally scanned to create a new 35mm print), the film will be playing at New York City's IFC Center from August 29th to September 4th. Called “one of the most completely moving films ever made” by film critic Pauline Kael, seeing Day of Wrath is not only a chance to view the work of a true auteur but also an opportunity to view something that is a part of history, since it was filmed in Nazi-occupied Denmark right before Dreyer fled.