The Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo will screen La passion de Jeanne d'Arc (The Passion of Joan of Arc, Carl Theoodore Dreyer, France 1928, 114 min.) with a live score performed by Pamela Swarts.

… "Dreyer's final version of the film was cut down due to pressure from the Archbishop of Paris and from government censors. For several decades it was released and viewed in various re-edited versions that had attempted to restore Dreyer's final cut. In 1981 a film print of Dreyer's final cut of the film was finally discovered in a mental institution in Oslo, Norway and re-released. Despite the objections and cutting of the film by clerical and government authorities, it was a major critical success when first released…" (Ebert)

[source: Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center website, 2016-May-17]