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There are a lot around...
From Don Camillo to Pane e Vino, passing to Ben Hur to....Huston´s epic...
" Mieux vaut une tête bien faite qu'une tête bien pleine."
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Chariots of Fire. Tremendous character study with religious faith as central theme.
Yes yes, I see your point.
Actually one of my very beloved picture.
" Mieux vaut une tête bien faite qu'une tête bien pleine."
unknown in the US but a masterstroke from the Brazilian New Wave director, Glauber Rocha. He influenced, heavily, many directors that came after him, such as Scorcese.
John Huston captured the essence of Flannery O'Connor's dark satire of southern evangelism.
One of Huston's best, and that's saying something. Brad Dourif and Harry Dean Stanton were both excellent in it too. one of the few examples of a furst rate adpatation of a literary classic. It truly captures the power and tone of the novel - no mean feat. Can't think of another movie that does justice to Flannery O'Connor.
Huston last film is his wonderful adaption of Joyce: The Dead. The last scene of that film, with Gabriel's VO quotation from the original story from The Dubliners, is one of the most moving in all his films. It's one of the most beautiful moments in movies:
"Yes, the newspapers are right: snow is general all over Ireland. Falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves.
One by one we’re all becoming shades. Better to pass boldly into that other world in the full glory of some passion than fade and wither dismally with age.
How long you locked away in your heart the image of your lover’s eyes when he told you that he did not wish to live? I’ve never felt that way myself towards any woman but I know that such a feeling must be love. Think of all those who never were, back to the start of time and me transient as they flickering out as well into their gray world. Like everything around me this solid world itself which they reared and lived in is dwindling and dissolving.
Snow is falling. Falling in that lonely churchyard where Michael Furey lies buried. Falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead. "
It transposes a bit from another passage in the story to Joyce's original closing lines - and it works perfectly. Always give me a shiver when I watch The Dead.
Huston's last film IIRC
"Poor People have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years.......and they are still poor."
So sayeth Charles Barkley
Released in 1987. He was very ill while making it, dying in fact, on oxygen and in a wheelchair much of the time. Quite amazing when you think of it. It was undoubtedly a labor of love. The Dead was an adaptation of arguably the world's greatest short story, by his favorite author, and a love song to his adored Ireland. He collaborated with son Tony on the screenplay, and of course Anjelica starred.
Huton made several movues after Wise Blood - Annie, Under The Volcano, Prizzi's Honor, and The Dead. Probably leaving something out too.
I guess I could have looked it up on IMDB
"Poor People have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years.......and they are still poor."
So sayeth Charles Barkley
...one of the last, great, living filmmakers of the classic era. I still remember seeing behind the scenes footage and interviews with Houston in a cheelchair, hooked up to oxygen. He wasn't shy about admitting his difficulty in finishing the movie. You knew he was on borrowed time.
Thise last films were all special to me - Under The Volcano, Prizzi's Honor and The Dead, The man went out in style.
Again and again, The Dead is the most satisfying film one can imagine.
It never get boring, it is just a wonderful film with not one flaw.
Not one.
The perfect film.
Maybe the best of the world.
Overall.
" Mieux vaut une tête bien faite qu'une tête bien pleine."
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Great film with two of the all-time best actors.
Baba-Booey to you all!
buzz buzz goes the chainsaw
classic!
Baba-Booey to you all!
Un gros degoutant!
" Mieux vaut une tête bien faite qu'une tête bien pleine."
And pay 50 bucks to yer boyfriend when you do it.
YECH
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“The fundamentals of our economy are strong.” - John McCain, September 15, 2008
A good one. Or the Bishop´s Wife...
" Mieux vaut une tête bien faite qu'une tête bien pleine."
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...loved it.
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" Mieux vaut une tête bien faite qu'une tête bien pleine."
Beyond that, except for "The Gospel According to St. Matthew" (which I haven't seen), I'm on board with the films and comments in Harmonia's list.
"Certainly AIG though with the construction bonds that they're holding and with the insurance that they are holding very, very impactful to Americans..." -- Sarah Palin
bleep
Malick?
" Mieux vaut une tête bien faite qu'une tête bien pleine."
I think at the least it can be seen as "spiritual" and the opening scenes of the ship arriving are as close to that as I get.
from the screenplay:
You don't make up for your sins in church.
You do it in the streets. You do it at home.
The rest is bullshit and you know it.
Lord, I'm not worthy to eat your flesh.
Not worthy to drink your blood.
Okay, I just come out of confession, right?
Right.
And the priest gives me the usual penance:
Ten "Hail Marys", ten "Our Fathers",
ten whatever.
Next week, I'll come back and he'll give me
another ten "Hail Marys" and...
...another ten "Our Fathers" and...
I mean, you know how I feel
about that shit.
Those things, they don't mean anything
to me. They're just words.
Now, that may be okay for the others,
but it just doesn't work for me.
I mean, if I do somethin' wrong,
I just want to pay for it my way.
So, I do my own penance for my own sins.
What do ya say, huh?
It's all bullshit except the pain, right?
The pain of hell.
The burn from a lighted match
increased a million times.
Infinite. Ya don't fuck around with the infinite.
There's no way you do that.
The pain in hell has two sides:
The kind you can touch with your hand.
The kind you can feel in your heart.
Your soul, the spiritual side.
And ya know...the worse of the two...is the spiritual.
-------------Call it, friendo.
...since it plumbs the depths of men's souls.
And, of course, it's from the most Catholic of directors.
...Danish director Carl Dreyer. Joan, an early silent masterpiece (IMO one of the greatest films ever lensed, which has been discussed here before) and Ordet ("The Word") his later, mature masterpiece, which is just as beautiful a film, if not so startlingly groundbreaking. I've never seen the meaning of "faith" explored better than in Ordet. The climax of the film is one of the most moving and powerful scenes in cinema. If you allow yourself to fall into the rythms of Ordet, it will just sweep you along.
Pasolini's "The The Gospel According to St. Matthew" would also have to be right up there...no doubt the best filmic depiction of Jesus ever, albeit selectively so (Pasolini was a gay, Marxist atheist, whoda thunk he would portray Jesus so movingly, although the political angle is right there). The cast of non-professional actors is remarkable, and they look like "real" people of the era, with not northern European, sanitized face to be found.
I have a deep fondness for "The Apostle", both Robert Duvall's wonderful performance and for its convincing snapshot of the realities of southern evangelical life. It's all very low key and small scale, just like the counstryside on a hot southern day. The Apostle makes a good companion piece to Duvall's Oscar winning performance in Tender Mercies, another small jewell of a (non-religious) film.
I think one of the most interesting films about religion - one usually overlooked - is Michael Tolkin's haunting 1991 movie "The Rapture", starring Mimi Rogers in maybe her best ever performance. This story of a personal search, conversion and obsession pulls no punches and is not an easy watch. Not for the faint hearted but worth the effort. The Rapture also stars a very young David Duchovny (who is quite good BTW).
Honorable mention to Scorsese's "The Last Temptation Of Christ", which is an honorable effort and quite intereesting once you get past the accents. I remember being in NYC when it premiered with all the attendant protests and hullabaloo from outranged evangelicals...who, of course, hadn't actually seen it. (Nor read the novel on which it was based.)
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My fave religious "comedy" remains Life Of Brian - always look on the bright side of life!
Life of Brian is my favorite by a mile
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...shows a return to Faith by a "former" priest, who harbored deep spiritual sorrow, anger, and rejection of belief - albeit in a roundabout context (though not unlike "The Night of the Iguana" in some way).
"Poor People have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years.......and they are still poor."
So sayeth Charles Barkley
A good cops and the Catholic church story, set in 1940's LA. Almost great.
bet of which could best pull off the other's role led to the switch.
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...but man it's depressing.
.
"The Gospel According to St. Matthew."
These two films almost made me nostalgic for Catholicism.
Almost.....
I think that ( we already talk about ) Pasolini´s film did get older, but not Francis..
I have both and the later is a master piece not dated for one cent.
" Mieux vaut une tête bien faite qu'une tête bien pleine."
One of Robert Duval's best efforts.
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"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." - Albert Einstein
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Saw it, a good one man show, but not so good of a film.
" Mieux vaut une tête bien faite qu'une tête bien pleine."
but Ben Hur and the Ten Commandments are pretty good too!
Baba-Booey to you all!
...Scorsese's "The Last Temptation of Christ" around the same time as Mel Gibson's "Pasion of the Christ", when it came out on video, maybe 2003.
I thought Scorsese's film was much superior.
I wouldn't call either of them a favorite.
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Well you can not mean that one....
" Mieux vaut une tête bien faite qu'une tête bien pleine."
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You should!
" Mieux vaut une tête bien faite qu'une tête bien pleine."
Face in the Crowd more or less lays open the whole mythology of evangelism and how it works on a social level to manipulate people.
AuPh
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