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THE FRIDAY PIC is a frame from Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 “Passion of Joan of Arc.” I got my latest look at the film in a gorgeous room-filling projection in “The Madness of Crowds,” yet another brilliant group show at Carriage Trade gallery in New York.

I was more blown away than ever by Dreyer’s film, and especially by his use of almost-static close ups. For a Warholian like me, they immediately made me think of Warhol’s Screen Tests, but I admit that the connection seemed unlikely.

Then, five minutes ago, I checked my vast Warhol database … and found an obscure text where the owner of the amazing Outlines gallery in Pittsburgh, a vital hangout for Warhol in the 1940s, said that she did indeed show the Dreyer, as part of her wildly ambitious program of screenings.

Knowing how Warhol was a Dyson vacuum for telling imagery, I feel almost certain that Dreyer was a real and direct influence on the Screen Tests.