Isaiah Films
Through the Bible in Five and a Half Years has got as far as Isaiah - a book whose poetry far outweighs its narrative. So it's hardly surprising that Isaiah has never been made into a film (even though Jeremiah was in 1998 by the Bible Collection).
But given the significance of Isaiah's work on the New Testament in particular, it's strange we don't find more of him somewhere. All there is is about ten minutes of a Living Christ episode where the story from Isaiah 36-37 appears by way of introduction to the prophet and his writings, which in turn introduces Jesus, whom the series is really about. But that is all. It does, however, give us one of the best shots of the whole series (above) as Isaiah paces about behind his scribe.
Does anyone else know of a film that features Isaiah?
But given the significance of Isaiah's work on the New Testament in particular, it's strange we don't find more of him somewhere. All there is is about ten minutes of a Living Christ episode where the story from Isaiah 36-37 appears by way of introduction to the prophet and his writings, which in turn introduces Jesus, whom the series is really about. But that is all. It does, however, give us one of the best shots of the whole series (above) as Isaiah paces about behind his scribe.
Does anyone else know of a film that features Isaiah?
7 Comments:
At 5:03 pm, January 21, 2009, Peter T Chattaway said…
Didn't Martin Scorsese have a cameo as Isaiah in The Last Temptation of Christ? (I think he did, but the IMDb page for that movie doesn't list Scorsese as one of the actors.) That's probably not quite what you're looking for, though.
At 5:43 pm, January 21, 2009, Matt Page said…
Oh yes! Although he wears a hood. There's even a photo of it at the Criterion Contraption review of it.
Matt
At 3:15 am, March 14, 2018, Anonymous said…
I have been hoping that a movie would be made about Isaiah and Elijah. There is a segment on Vimeo about Isaiah but not an actual epic movie.
At 11:39 pm, May 27, 2018, Matt Page said…
Sorry to be so slow in getting back to you. I would be interested to see one as well. Do you have a link for the Vimeo segment?
Matt
At 2:09 am, September 15, 2019, Anonymous said…
https://vimeo.com/19578219
Isaiah on Vimeo
At 9:02 am, January 24, 2020, Matt Page said…
Thanks for posting this.
Matt
At 1:45 am, April 14, 2020, Unknown said…
Is that a movie app like nexflix
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