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Book Review: The Silents of Jesus in the Cinema (1897-1927)

The Silents of Jesus in the Cinema (1897-1927) Edited by David J. Shepherd Routledge, Taylor and Francis (2016) 292 pages 61 B/W Illustratio...

I'm reviewing this film as part of the Early Women Filmmakers Blogathon (though I've been meaning to do so for some time). The film...

Shadow of Nazareth is unusual amongst Jesus films because it sits, somewhat awkwardly between films that are primarily about Jesus, and tho...

Carl Theodor Dreyer is rightly revered as a filmmaker of some repute, whose bold and uncompromising films, such as Ordet (1954) and La Pass...

Robert Wiene will, rightly, always be best remembered for his 1920 expressionistic classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari , but by 1923 with hi...

Thanhouser's The Star of Bethlehem (dir. Lawrence Marston, 1912) originally ran to three reels, but only around one reel's worth of...

For a long time I've been meaning to sit down and actually watch La naissance, la vie et la mort du Christ ( The Birth, Life and Death...

In addition to watching and writing a lot about Bible films, I'm also a big fan of silent movies, so when the two come together I'm ...

Of all the silent Jesus films that I have reviewed for this blog Der Galiläer is the most wonderfully composed; it is also the one that mos...