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Just a handful of news items.<\/span><\/p>\n

1. And now for the meta-Jesus movies (or should that be Jesus meta-movies?)! IndieWIRE<\/a> says Abel Ferrara\u2019s Mary<\/a><\/i>, which premieres in Venice and Toronto next month, will also open the San Sebastian Film Festival<\/a>\u2018s Zabaltegi section: \u201cThe film is a tale of the filming of a movie about the life of Jesus and how it draws the actress (Juliette Binoche) playing the part of Mary Magdalene into a spiritual crisis of profound consequences involving the director of the film, (Matthew Modine) and a New York journalist (Forest Whitaker).\u201d Hmmm, I wonder how it will compare to Pasolini\u2019s La ricotta<\/a><\/i> (1963) or Arcand\u2019s Jesus of Montreal<\/a><\/i> (1989), which admittedly was about a play and not a film, but still\u2026<\/p>\n

2. Having finished War of the Worlds<\/a><\/i>, Steven Spielberg is now going to re-make another 1950s disaster movie. FilmStew.com<\/a> and E! Online<\/a> report that he has taken over the producing chores on a remake of When Worlds Collide<\/a><\/i> (1951) \u2014 a film which, incidentally, inspired one of my favorite Daniel Amos<\/a> songs, albeit in title only. But wait \u2014 didn\u2019t Spielberg pretty much already do this with Deep Impact<\/a><\/i> (1998), which he executive-produced?<\/p>\n

3. The Washington Post<\/a><\/i>, Video Business<\/a><\/i> and Studio Briefing<\/a> all have items up now on the demise of the VHS format. The latest development? Star Wars: Episode III \u2013 Revenge of the Sith<\/a><\/i> will be released on DVD only<\/i>. Ah, brings back memories of how the \u201cdirector\u2019s cut\u201d of Lawrence of Arabia<\/a><\/i> (1962\/1989) was one of the very first major studio films not to be released on Beta.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"