Amistad Gives African Americans Their Due / Abolitionists fare less well.
It is a bitter irony, much noted by critics, that many films dealing with the civil-rights movement and its legacy — Mississippi Burning, Cry Freedom, and, most recently, Ghosts of Mississippi, to name...
View ArticleLike DeMille before him, Aronofsky tips his hat to Doré
One of the most haunting images in Noah was inspired by a picture from an illustrated Bible first published in 1866.
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 ArticleWhat if A.D. The Bible Continues was a silent movie?
The NBC series has some interesting things in common with the Bible films made a hundred years ago or so.
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