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The Nativity (1978)

The demise of the biblical epic in the 1960s saw adaptation of the Bible moving instead onto television. With budgets greatly reduced the sp...

One of the things that neither Bible film fans, nor the people who write about them like to admit, is that, more often than not, they are a ...

Having had only the most limited theatrical release back in April, Brett Miller's Chasing the Star comes out on DVD next month, several...

Back in June I compiled what I thought was a comprehensive list of films based on the Nativity . Within days I'd come across two further...

In contrast to films such as the BBC's The Nativity , which uses a romance between Mary and Joseph to drive the plot, Guido Chiesa's...

At 159 minutes long Raffaele Mertes' La Sacra Famiglia (2006) is one of the longest films primarily about the birth and childhood of J...

Joseph and Mary is just one of five films from 2016 and 2017 to make an explicit attempt to cover the birth and childhood of Jesus. The Sta...

In the run up to the release of The Nativity Story back in 2006 I drew up a list of films about the birth and childhood of Jesus . I've ...

Back in the first few months that I was writing this blog I wrote two pieces about a potential adaptation of Anne Rice's novel " ...

Little Baby Jesus of Flander (Van den Berghe, 2010) was released just two years after Serra's Birdsong and is certainly reminiscent of...

Two years after The Nativity Story and Spanish/Catalan director Albert Serra produced El cant dels ocells ( Birdsong ). In contrast to The...

This essay isn't so much of a review as a look at some of the film's main themes. As such it will contain spoilers though there are...