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Monday, August 27, 2018

Il Vecchio Testamento (The Old Testament, 1962)

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One and Two Maccabees are an unusual pair of books. The two 'deuterocanonical' books appear in what is commonly known as the Apocry...
Saturday, August 18, 2018

Solomon and Sheba (1959) - part 1

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This is the first in a series of posts looking at the 1959 epic Solomon and Sheba "At times, a man feels drawn toward the dangers...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Othon (1969)

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Of all the films which Huillet and Straub made prior to Moses und Aron , Othon is perhaps the closest. Both films are adaptations set, at...
Wednesday, August 08, 2018

The Ten Commandments (1956)

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The paradox of The Ten Commandments  is that it is one of the easiest films to mock and parody, and yet it's magnificence is such that ...
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Saturday, August 04, 2018

Reflections on the Books of the Maccabees

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As someone who was brought up as a Protestant, I've never really read the Books of the Maccabees in full before. But in preparation for...
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Friday, August 03, 2018

Machorka-Muff (1962)

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Machorka-Muff  was the first project Huillet/Straub were able to complete as their plans for their film on Bach and the film that would ult...
Friday, July 27, 2018

Sodom und Gomorrha (1923)

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The 1920s saw two men battling for supremacy of the biblical epic, Cecil B. DeMille and the Hungarian Mihaly Kertesz. DeMille went on to ma...
Thursday, July 26, 2018

A.D. (2015) - Part 9

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This is part 9 of a series of posts covering A.D. episode by episode & are initial impressions not a review. You can read them all here...
Thursday, July 19, 2018

Sicilia! (1998)

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Sicilia! (1998) is one of only a few of Straub/Huillet's films from their Italian work to be available in the UK and their last work t...
Sunday, July 08, 2018

The Story of Jacob and Joseph (1974)

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According to the Bible, Jacob was the man who founded the nation that later adopted his pseudonym - Israel - for itself. Yet there has neve...
Sunday, July 01, 2018

Why the Film Community Needs to Rethink its Stance on the Biblical Film

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I think it's time film lovers revisited the Bible film. I understand their a bad reputation: too often they have suffered from being ...
Tuesday, June 26, 2018

More Old Thoughts on Peter and Paul (1981)

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For a while now I've been meaning to post a few thoughts I wrote down after an early viewing of the 1981 film Peter and Paul , and seei...
Sunday, June 17, 2018

St. John in Exile (1986)

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Somewhere between about ten and twenty years ago, I picked this up, on VHS. I imagined, perhaps purely from the title, that it would be a f...
Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Salomé (1910)

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Incredibly, even before 1910 there had already been seven silent film adaptations of the story of Herodias' daughter including four rel...
Saturday, June 09, 2018

Book me to speak!

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If you're interested in what you read here, or even if you're looking for something a bit different for your group / conference / c...
Saturday, June 02, 2018

Wholly Moses! (1980)

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Such was the unexpected financial success of Monty Python's Life of Brian  that other filmmakers quickly decided to follow suit. With t...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

David and Goliath (2015)

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Back in 2013-14 I wrote a chapter for the book " The Bible in Motion " about film portrayals of David (and, by extension, Goliath...