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The Greatest Story Ever Told: it suffers in the retelling
24 December 2009 12:00 AM, PST
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With such inherently dramatic source material, George Stevens's cameo-packed 1965 dramatisation of the life of Jesus Christ still manages to be long, plodding and unintentionally funny
Director: George Stevens
Entertainment grade: E
History grade: C
Jesus of Nazareth is believed by Christians to have been the son of God.
Violence
The film begins in the reign of Herod the Great, who died in 4Bc. (This is the reason that many historians date the birth of Jesus to between 11 and four years before himself.) Told by three magi that a new king has been born in Bethlehem, Herod orders a massacre of local children. This massacre appears only in Matthew's gospel and is not mentioned in any non-biblical sources, such as Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews, which details Herod's murderous record at some length. John's gospel implies that Jesus was born in Nazareth, not Bethlehem. This doesn't put the film off.
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- Alex von Tunzelmann
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Our Favorite Movie Messiahs
14 December 2009 3:55 AM, PST
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With Christians around the world gathering to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, it's a fitting time to look back at those actors who've portrayed him on the big screen.
Whether playing the actual Son of God or merely his analogue, the eight performers in Our Favorite Movie Messiahs made us believe.
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The Matrix | The Last Temptation of Christ | The Big Lebowski | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Tron | Jesus Christ Superstar | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | The Greatest Story Ever Told
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Why must grown adults whinge about TV spoilers?
1 December 2009 2:10 AM, PST
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We've turned into a nation of short-fused brats
As with many over-indulged western lounge sloths today, my eyes are much greedier than my telly. Disgustingly so, particularly now Sky+ has updated the Epg (electronic programming guide), making it speedier and sexier to harvest entire seasons of television. Currently, Curb Your Enthusiasm season seven, E4's Misfits, all of HBO's In Treatment and at least 37 episodes of The Wire are clogging my box, plus hours more of "unmissable viewing". I limped behind BBC2's The Restaurant, until the episode where the couple who resembled Wham! convinced Raymond Blanc that a bistro serving mainly Scotch eggs wasn't lunacy, but then Blanc and co joined the "recorded" pile too.
Luckily, I find the concept of "outdoors" vastly overrated. I envied George the Blue Peter tortoise enormously every time they placed him into his cardboard box and Sellotaped the exit. My other saving grace
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- Grace Dent
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Birthday Suits: Oscar-Snubbed
10 November 2009 5:11 PM, PST
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Today's birthday list doesn't make me feel celebratory so much as oscarighteously furious. Perhaps I should explain. It's only the four first birthday boys whipping me into a golden frenzy. Then things calm down.
Claude, Ann and Dick
Todays Birthdays 11/10
1889 Claude Rains, never won an Oscar. This despite being a great screen actor, whose filmography reads like a catalogue of Golden Age greatness. He's an actor who made indelible contributions to not 1, not 2 but 7 Best Picture nominees, a number that doesn't even reflect films like Notorious, Now Voyager, The Wolf Man, The Invisible Man, Mrs. Skeffington or The Greatest Story Ever Told. He didn't even get an honorary statue!
1925 Richard Burton, never won an Oscar. This despite winning exactly as many nominations as Liz Taylor won husbands.
1928 Ennio Moriccone has never won an Oscar. This despite being a world reknowned composer, being worshipped by film fanatics and revolutionizing how people scored Westerns.
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- NATHANIEL R
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Happy 80th to Max von Sydow
10 April 2009 3:32 PM, PDT
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It's a big day in Sweden: The great Max von Sydow turns 80 today. Most people only vaguely familiar with von Sydow probably expect him to be older, because he's played older characters most of his career.
It's astonishing to me that this graceful actor has only received one Oscar nomination, for Pelle the Conquerer. He's been fantastic for 50 years, beginning with his work with Ingmar Bergman. The Seventh Seal is a favorite, but check him out in Wild Strawberries, Through a Glass Darkly, and The Virgin Spring, which I just watched about a month ago because it's the same story as The Last House on the Left.
He's played Jesus (The Greatest Story Ever Told), he's riffed on Blofeld and Ming the Merciless, and has dressed up as Freud, Eugene O'Neill, popes and cardinals, and Brewmaster Smith in Strange Brew. He's done independent films in a host of languages, including
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- Colin Boyd
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Bradford International Film Festival Diary Day 3:
28 March 2009 3:22 PM, PDT
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Lee Pfeiffer reports on the Bradford International Film Festival -Day 3
Today's events began at 10:00 Am with a crowd gathering in the Pictureville Cinema for Cinerama Ventures, a festival of documentaries hosted by Dave Strohmaier and Randy Gitsch, producers of the acclaimed documentary Cinerama Adventure. The presentation included new featurettes about the making of How the West Was Won that were frustratingly dropped from the recent deluxe DVD release. One documentary looked at the film's return engagement in the 1990s at the Arclight Hollywood Cinerama Theatre and featured moving interviews with attendees who spoke about how much the film meant to them. Another fascinating documentary centered on the film's legendary run at the small Neon Theatre in Dayton, Ohio. The theater was specially fixed to conform with Cinerama projection standards and How the West Was Won was intended to run for a matter of weeks...instead it ran for years,
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