I realize that you'd probably get tons of complaints if you upped the cost on the release. But if you could find some way to sucessfully market it as a premium release, personally Passion of Joan of Arc is a title I wouldn't mind spending some extra money on for a really high quality release.peerpee wrote:Royalty costs per unit mean that it's quite prohibitive for the distributor to include more than one score on a release, unless that extra cost is added to the asking price.
I don't really find that to be a problem with the Voices of Light score, the singing seems to act as additional instruments rather than conventional singing, and since I don't speak Latin or Old French, there's never that mental divide where I'm reading inter-titles and trying to ignore the words I'm heading that happens with more poorly done vocal scores.Jonathan S wrote:The Voices of Light score always dissuaded me from buying the Criterion DVD - I find any vocal score for silent films very distracting, especially when there are lots of intertitles.
By the way, about the claim that Passion of Joan of Arc should be silent. I remember reading a quote where Dreyer expressed the wish to make a truly silent film that didn't need music. But was there ever any evidence that he thought Passion of Joan of Arc shouldn't be seen with music?