The Nativity Story - Central Page
My Review for this film is here.There have been so many posts on The Nativity Story that I thought it would be worth putting links to all my posts on it, plus any other relevant ones, all in one place.
Internal Links
New Film On Nativity In Works
Hardwicke In Negotiations To Direct The Nativity
Writer Mike Rich On The Nativity
Keisha Castle Hughes To Play Mary In The Nativity
Script Review For The Nativity
Nativity Name Change
Lords of Dogtown
Scene Analysis
Similarities with Joseph of Nazareth
Nativity News vol.1 - Nativity Blog, central page, CT article
Nativity News vol.2 - Official Website, First Featurette, Teaser trailer,Time article.
Nativity News vol.3 - Thirteen review
Nativity News vol.4 - Photo Book
Nativity News vol.5 - Second Featurette
Nativity News vol.6 - CT interview with Mike Rich
Nativity News vol.7 - Interview with Mychael Danna
Nativity News vol.8 - EW Interview Hardwicke, Haertland Debut, Sacred Songs CD
Nativity News vol.9 - Interview with Alex Siddig, second nativity blog
Nativity News vol.10 - Theatrical Trailer, Third Featurette, Novelisation, DVD Documentary
Nativity News vol.11 - "Resources" website, Castle Hughes pregnant.
Nativity News vol.12 - Pauline Press books, Outreach screenings, PG rating.
Nativity News vol.13 - Pastor Screening, Outreach materials.
Nativity News vol.14 - Poster, numerous interviews and overviews
Nativity News vol.15 - Premiere, early reviews,Newsweek, clips
Nativity News vol.16 - Hughes pregnant? Time, Variety an LA Times articles, Isacc interview
Nativity News vol.17 - Reviews
Nativity News vol.18 - Reviews box office blame
Nativity News vol.19 - DVD release
Nativity News vol. 20 - Special Edition DVD, Chattaway comentary, CT post mortem
External Links
Official Website
IMDB Page
Nativity Blog
Another Nativity Blog
Cast and Crew
Shohreh Aghdashloo .... Elizabeth
Hiam Abbass .... Anna - mother of Mary
Keisha Castle-Hughes .... Mary
Eriq Ebouaney .... Balthasar
Ciarán Hinds .... King Herod
Oscar Isaac .... Joseph
Mary Matilyn Mouser .... Child (voice)
Matt Patresi .... Roman Soldier
Ted Rusoff .... Old Shepherd
Gabriele Scharnitzky .... Shyla Yvonne Sciò
Alexander Siddig .... Gabriel
Shaun Toub .... Joaquim
Tim Van Rellim .... Jerusalem Soldier #1
Shelby Young .... Naomi (voice)
Lynnanne Zager .... Voice (uncredited)
Director .... Catherine Hardwicke
Writer .... Mike Rich
Producers .... Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey
Original .... Mychael Danna
Cinematography .... Elliot Davis
Reviews
Entertainment Weekly
Slant
Variety
filmcritic.com
Hollywood Reporter
Shadows on the Wall
IGN.com
CNN
Los Angeles Times [Kenneth Turan]
Washington Post
New York Times
San Francisco Chronicle [Mick LaSalle]
The New York Times
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Boston Globe
Decent Films - faith on film [Steven D. Greydanus]
Eric D. Snider
Christianity Today [Peter T. Chattaway]
Christianity Today [David Neff]
Looking Closer [Jeffrey Overstreet]
Darrel Manson
Frederica Mathewes-Green
LAST UPDATED ON 7th DECEMBER 2006.
posted at 8:52 am © Matt Page 2005-2023
6 Comments:
At 4:16 am, August 27, 2006,
queen_spoo said…
Hey Matt! Great centralization of your "Nativity" posts. :)
P.S. If you want to change the post date whenever you edit to reflect when you added your most recent link/revision, go to the "Post and Comment options" on the lower left of your posting entry form, and you can change the date and time to what you want, instead of keeping the old date with your disclaimer. [it used to always be visible underneath your post text box, but now they "hid" the option and you have to click to change it]
At 1:25 pm, August 31, 2006,
Matt Page said…
Thanks Spoo,
I had seen the posting/comment option, but then it would interfere with all my current pages and mess my archives and links up. It would be good if blogger could give you non-dated pages as well as the more normal "blog" pages
Matt
At 5:16 pm, September 29, 2006,
queen_spoo said…
Too true. That would be nice if you could have posts without a date to put somewhere... I'm still glad you have this post centralizing everything, and still have it linked.
At 12:09 pm, October 06, 2006,
Matt Page said…
Thanks Spoo
Matt
At 1:46 am, December 03, 2006,
Anonymous said…
Give yourself the gift of a meaningful Christmas.
I went to see this last night, opening night. As a recently baptized Christian, I will tell you that this was a most welcomed, meaningful and revolutionary movie for me. It centers around the mother of Our Lord, Jesus Christ.
A superbly crafted and thoughtfully directed movie, it deserves a high rating. It is an unprecedented tribute to a woman who has been relegated to backdrop scenes. Finally, Mary gets to have a movie about her spiritual journey. In my own life, Mary was in the far distant background, giving her fleeting thought if I came across a Nativity scene at Christmas or if I heard the Beatles song, "Let It Be":
"When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom, let it be. And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me, speaking words of wisdom, let it be."
It was made for a certain niche -- the ~200 million or so Americans who consider themselves Christians. Two years ago, I was not in this niche, being "spiritual, but not religious." Long story, short, it was Mary who pointed me to her Son, lead me on my own spiritual journey and caused a revolution in my heart, mind and soul.
Those who take the time to learn about her and her role do not, as I was mislead to believe, worship her. They simply respect and venerate her. Leading folks to her Son, as I learned, is her job. In this movie, her character is doing exactly that again for me and viewers who are called to see it.
Ever since she lead me home, Christmas has taken on such meaning as I never imagined. This year, I've started the season -- called the Advent season -- with a faith-based movie that allowed me to slide right into it in a beautiful, gentle and do I dare say, beatific way.
This movie experience is an exquisite gift for the heart and soul. Moreover, it is a feast for the eyes. I went past the inanimate objects of Nativity displays to a visually rich and "fleshed" out Mary, Joseph, Baby Jesus, shepherds, Magi and stable animals. The director of the movie, Catherine Hardwick, referred to a line in the script: "...the greatest of kings born in the most humble of places."
"Power," she says, "is not a physical power. It's not riches, it's not money, it's not control of governments and nations. It's a deeper power, spirituality."
At the end of the movie, the audience burst out in spontaneous applause. For each of us, Christmas is not at all about holiday parties, frenzied shopping and the trappings and physical accouterments. Now, THAT'S revolutionary.
When this comes out in DVD, it will be a part of our yearly Christmas tradition, reminding us what it is all about.
"Merry Christ-mas!" I hope you will make it meaningfully merrier by giving yourself this movie experience of the life of Mary.
At 6:25 am, December 05, 2006,
Anonymous said…
Hey Matt,
nice review! I saw the film today and loved it. Thought is was pretty faithful too!
There is another great film review which I found while scanning: http://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=429
Check it out and tell us what you think?
Trent
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