My small group is looking at Acts at the moment and last week there was a bit of a mix up over who was doing what and so seeing as we were at my house I suggested watching the passage fr the day (Acts 2) in some different film versions. Whilst there are quite a [...]
I’ve written about The Miracle Maker many times before, most commonly around Easter when I find myself watching it perhaps with my children, or perhaps just with others. This year we sat down to watch it as a family and I had a number of new thoughts about it that I hadn’t really considered before. [...]
The Celluloid Madonna: From Scripture to Screen Catherine O’Brien Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Columbia University Press (13 Dec 2011) Language English ISBN: 978-0231161654 It’s been a while since there was a new film out on Bible Films so I was really pleased to hear that Catherine O’Brien’s “Celluloid Madonna” has finally been published. (I heard [...]
I’m going to be writing a short entry for the Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception on Fratricide, so I thought I’d sketch down a few thoughts here first of all. The obvious place to start is with Bible films that cover the story of Cain and Abel. There are a good number of [...]
Sunday’s lectionary gospel reading (in the Church of England at least) was the story of the Wedding at Cana and Jesus turning Water into Wine. In the CofE’s lectionary it is one of the few passages from Jesus’ ministry to appear every year, and so it’s perhaps not surprising that it occurs in a good [...]
It’s perhaps fortunate that in a year in which I’ve struggled to blog regularly there’s not been a great deal happening. 2010 was a quiet year; 2011 was quieter still. From the point of view of this blog, major change was the start of the Facebook page. Apologies if I’ve been banging one but this, [...]
In the absence of a significant Jesus film this year, the BBC version’s of The Nativity remains the most recent portrayal of the events surrounding Jesus’ birth. The first three half hour episodes I watched with the kids, but knowing the content was a little harsher in the final episode I watched that one alone. [...]
I know Christmas ended yesterday in the west, but as there is at least one regular reader of this blog that celebrated Christmas yesterday, I thought I might make at least one more entry in this series before moving on. In fact, there might be at least one more give the last news from Mark [...]
Having started with Pasolini’s nativity scene a few days ago, I thought we’d go back to the beginning and look at The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ. My kids have watched silent films before, mainly Buster Keaton, so it wasn’t so much of an education. That said the real advantage for them of watching [...]
I thought a good way to resurrect this blog would be to revisit some of the film portrayals of the Nativity story in the run up to Christmas. It’s a good way to attempt to ensure that the kids don’t get so focussed on the fat guy in the red suit that they forget about [...]