The first movie on this list should be better known. (It’s an indispensable part of our domestic Holy Week liturgy, viewed in three installments over Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday.)
Well done. I think your point about Last Temptation is right on: Scorsese was never irreverent and the film, regardless of how it strikes us over time, provokes great questions. I remember the furor that arose when it was released and I remember walking through a picket line to go see it in Philadelphia.
The movie did not make me leave the church. If anything, it made me think about it more deeply.
The first movie on this list should be better known. (It’s an indispensable part of our domestic Holy Week liturgy, viewed in three installments over Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday.)
I think the only reason I'm aware of Miracle Maker in the first place is because of your writing about it!
Well done. I think your point about Last Temptation is right on: Scorsese was never irreverent and the film, regardless of how it strikes us over time, provokes great questions. I remember the furor that arose when it was released and I remember walking through a picket line to go see it in Philadelphia.
The movie did not make me leave the church. If anything, it made me think about it more deeply.
Jesus of Montreal is one of my all time favorites!