Come and See: How Movies Encourage Us to Look at (and with) Jesus
In orthodox Christian belief, Jesus is both God and man, fully divine and fully human. And it is because God has revealed himself in the form of a particular person who lived in a particular time and a...
View ArticleTop Ten Jesus Movies
They’ve been making films about the Son of God for over a century. Here’s one man’s list of those that ascend to the top of the cinematic pack. Of the making of movies about Jesus, there is no end. In...
View ArticleEthnicity in Jesus films – does it matter?
In 1961, Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer produced King of Kings, the first major Hollywood film about the life of Christ since the silent era. The virgin Mary was played by Siobhan McKenna, a respected Irish...
View ArticleMary Goes to the Movies / How the mother of Jesus has been portrayed through...
Making a movie about Jesus is difficult enough. Anyone who would dramatize the life of Christ must strike a fine balance between his full humanity and his full divinity, and many filmmakers have erred...
View ArticleHistory and tradition in movie depictions of the Cross.
Did Jesus carry a full cross or just a crossbeam? Did the nails go through the palms of his hands or through his wrists? Were the thieves nailed to their crosses or bound to them with rope? And did...
View ArticleHow well have movies depicted Jesus the exorcist?
The History Channel is teaming up with a few horror-movie makers to produce a series about Jesus as a young exorcist. Here are four films -- from the silent era to a recent animated film -- that have...
View ArticleThe Vancouver Sun posts its list of the best Jesus movies
The top five films about Jesus, the top five films with a "metaphorical Christ", and the top five films "with Christian themes", as determined by religion and ethics reporter Douglas Todd -- with a...
View ArticleThe Ascension of Christ in film: literalism, symbolism, etc.
How a dozen films (silent and sound, Hollywood and foreign, live-action and animated) have depicted or at least hinted at the moment when Jesus was taken up into Heaven.
View ArticleWhy are some Bible stories turned into movies more often than others?
Is there a "canon" of Bible films, independent of the biblical canon itself? And is there a reason why certain biblical stories get filmed again and again while others go ignored?
View Article20 things about The Prince of Egypt, which turns 20 today.
Detailed notes on the making, and legacy, of the first successful Bible epic since the genre's golden age.
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