RES: [PEN-L] Mad Mel

2003-08-06 Thread Renato Pompeu
-Mensagem original- De: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] nome de Yoshie Furuhashi Enviada em: terça-feira, 5 de agosto de 2003 00:25 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assunto: Re: [PEN-L] Mad Mel There was in the sixties e very good Polish film called (I am translating literally) "M

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2003-08-04 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
> even better, in imitation of many Hollywood endings, the camera pulls back to show a panorama of perhaps 50 or even 100 people singing "look on the bright side," while dancing on their crosses. I think this is where it's announced that the sound track is for sale in the theater lobby. (BTW, witho

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2003-08-04 Thread Devine, James
yea verily! Saith I: the best movie about Jesus is still "Monty Python's Life of Brian." speaketh Jurriaan: Yep that is what I said to, especially the ending: hanging on the cross, the three sing "look on the bright side of life". even better, in imitation of many Hollywood endings, the camera

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2003-08-04 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Jim wrote: Of course, the best movie about Jesus is still "Monty Python's Life of Brian." Yep that is what I said to, especially the ending: hanging on the cross, the three sing "look on the bright side of life". But can't we make a better movie ? See further http://www.all-creatures.org/hr/hra-

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2003-08-04 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Me too. I own the video of Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. mbs I love Burt Lancaster!!! In addition to _Kadosh_, I also recommend _Passions of Joan of Arc_ (1927) and _The Day of Wrath_ (1943), both directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer. Cf.

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2003-08-04 Thread Joanna Bujes
"Did he say 'Blessed are the cheesemakers?'" j. > Best religion movie is Elmer Gantry. > Have watched it many times. > > mbs > > > Of course, the best movie about Jesus is still "Monty Python's Life of Brian." > > > Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.ed

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2003-08-04 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Best religion movie is Elmer Gantry. Have watched it many times. mbs I love Burt Lancaster!!! In addition to _Kadosh_, I also recommend _Passions of Joan of Arc_ (1927) and _The Day of Wrath_ (1943), both directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer. Cf.

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2003-08-04 Thread Louis Proyect
Max B. Sawicky wrote: Best religion movie is Elmer Gantry. Have watched it many times. (I reviewed this when it was in the theaters. Now it is available in video.) Kadosh "Kadosh," a hard-hitting feminist polemic, revolves around the tangled sexual politics of three men and two women in an ultra-

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2003-08-04 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Best religion movie is Elmer Gantry. Have watched it many times. mbs Of course, the best movie about Jesus is still "Monty Python's Life of Brian." Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine

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2003-08-04 Thread Devine, James
--- Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine > -Original Message- > From: Louis Proyect [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 6:52 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PEN-L] Mad Mel > > > NY Times, Aug. 3,

Mad Mel

2003-08-03 Thread Louis Proyect
NY Times, Aug. 3, 2003 Mel Gibson's Martyrdom Complex by Frank Rich The Jews didn't kill Christ," my stepfather was fond of saying. "They just worried him to death." Nonetheless, there was palpable relief in my Jewish household when the Vatican officially absolved us of the crime in 1965. At the