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I love these postcards from the 1916 silent Italian Jesus film CHRISTUS (dir. Giulio Antamoro) courtesy of European Film Star Postcards. They have some nice detail about the film too.
https://t.co/LfX3lD0rT1
#100BibleFilms no.98
Seder-Masochism (2018)
Nina Paley: US – 78 mins
#100BibleFilms100Days
It's good that this year William Shakespeare's birthday ties in with #SaturdayShakespeare, he was #BOTD 1564. Obviously his plays & poetry are world-renown but I'd like to celebrate their movie adaptations.
#100BibleFilms no.63
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Martin Scorsese: Canada/US – 164 mins
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Lastly #pepla based on the NT:
-Il figlio dell'uomo/The Son of Man (Virgilio Sabel,1954)
-La spada e la croce/The Sword and the Cross (Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia,1958)
-Erode il grande/Herod the Great (Victor Tourjansky,1959)
-Ponzio Pilato (Irving Rapper,Gian Paolo Callegari,1962)
#100BibleFilms no.32
The Star of Bethlehem (1956)
Lotte Reiniger: UK – 18 mins
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From my archives, my overview of 'Comedy Bible Films' posted #otd 2010. There would be many more to add today. A variation of this piece was eventually published in the "Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception"
https://t.co/6rOnSNfRLc
My latest blog post is a write up of s1e4 of THE CHOSEN (2019) which weaves together Mark 1&3, Luke 4&5 and John 1&21 into a single narrative about how Simon Peter joined the Jesus movement.
https://t.co/SFnnmxXjb0
Hot off the press, my write up of the 4th episode of @thechosentv an episode which like THE MIRACLE MAKER & JESUS OF NAZARETH rearranges a number of incidents with Peter into more of a story:
https://t.co/SFnnmyeU2y
Sorry this should read 1911. Here's a rave review from p1411 of 1910's omnibus edition of Moving Picture World.
#SilentFilm