A spiritual journey can’t be rushed the mind and body must submit to long hardship for the spirit to attain its goal. García takes his time in the early scenes, allowing us to ease into the rhythms of this eremitic phase in its protagonist’s life. First, though, let’s talk about how right Gibson was for The Passion of the Christ. I doubt Gibson is the right filmmaker for the job. Why a Mel Gibson sequel to The Passion is probably a bad idea On paper, and sometimes even on screen, there’s some promise and potential in this remake of Ben-Hur. To begin with, Jesus himself was on the big screen in an extraordinary number of screen incarnations. I can’t think of another year quite like 2016. The many faces of Jesus at the movies in 2016 It’s a little like The Nativity Story meets The Secret Life of Pets, which probably sounds like a winning formula to some people.Īfter the four Gospels, if one text is more influential than any other in the tone of Jesus of Nazareth, it might be the Vatican II declaration on the Church in relation to non-Christian religions, Nostra Aetate, a watershed document in Jewish-Catholic relations. Somewhere roughly between Risen and Last Days in the Desert in its narrative and interpretive sensibilities, Mary Magdalene presents an interpretation of Jesus’ ministry, passion and resurrection that seems in some ways - with important caveats - fairly traditional, viewed from a feminist perspective with some biblical justification. Mary Magdalene as a penitent with a notoriously wanton sexual past, a profligate adulteress or harlot. “Where the Bible comes to life” is the slogan of Sight & Sound Theatres, headquartered in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in the heart of Amish country.Ī reader of my review of Mary Magdalene offers an impassioned defense for the medieval Western view of St. Sight & Sound Theatre’s Jesus: An Evangelical Gospel story
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The Bible world of Roma Downey and Mark Burnett’s LightWorkers Media productions sometimes seems not unlike a movie about Shakespeare in which you hear lines like “To be or not to be, that is the question” and “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players,” but everyone seems to have heard them already. Our seasonal movie-watching during Advent, Lent, and the Christmas and Easter seasons varies from year to year, but Triduum is always the same.
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Part of the success story behind writer-director Dallas Jenkins’ popular life-of-Jesus TV series is the remarkable crowdfunding approach spearheaded by viral marketing strategist Derral Eves. Interview: The Chosen producer Derral Eves
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