November 18, 2017 Moses und Aron Other Films Chronik der Anna Magdalena BachThe Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1967) Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach (1968) is the film that put the "and" in Straub and Huillet. Whilst it was the third of Straub...
November 03, 2017 Other Films Martin Luther in Film Image from the 1913 film Die Wittenberger Nachtigall Somehow the commemorations for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, specifically ...
September 29, 2017 Other Films mother! (2017) Hard quite to know what should be classified as a spoiler for this film. I've tried not to give too much away, but it's hard to dis...
August 18, 2017 Other Films The Death of Louis XIV (2017) Being a fan of Rossellini's The Rise to Power of Louis XIV , a regular viewer of the BBC's Versailles and having previously enjoyed...
April 17, 2017 DeMille Epic Genre Other Films Cleopatra (1934) and What it Says about DeMille Whilst Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra (1934) may not quite be a biblical film it's worth of a few words of consideration here not onl...
January 26, 2017 Other Films La Vie de Jesus (1997) The title of Bruno Dumont's La Vie de Jesus (The Life of Jesus, 1997) may catch the eye of those like me, but its biblical themes are f...
August 24, 2016 Buñuel Other Films The Young One (1960) I've been watching quite a bit of Luis Buñuel recently and just finished watching The Young One (1960). Without giving too much away a ...
January 18, 2016 Last Temptation of Christ Other Films Scorsese The Wolf of Wall Street vs Last Temptation of Christ I finally managed to catch up with Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street last night and as I'm also preparing a talk on his Las...
September 12, 2015 DeMille Other Films Ten Commandments (1956) Heston, DeMille and The Greatest Show on Earth Four years before The Ten Commandments Charlton Heston and Cecil B. DeMille teamed up for a different kind of big film The Greatest Show on...