{"id":832,"date":"2008-06-03T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/06\/newsbites-the-biblical-themes-edition-2\/"},"modified":"2008-06-03T10:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T10:24:00","slug":"newsbites-the-biblical-themes-edition-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/06\/newsbites-the-biblical-themes-edition-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Newsbites: The biblical themes edition!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Just catching up on a few items I\u2019ve had sitting around for a while, plus one new item that surfaced today.<\/span><\/p>\n

1.<\/a> Carolyn Arends<\/a> has written an article for CT Movies on Magdalena: Released from Shame<\/a><\/i>, the latest film to mix brand-new, demographically-targeted footage with footage from the Campus Crusade for Christ movie Jesus<\/a><\/i> (1979). The interesting thing about this<\/i> film \u2014 unlike, say, The Story of Jesus for Children<\/a><\/i> (2000) \u2014 is that the new footage features at least one character who was also part of the original film, but presumably played by a different actor. So is the character played by two different women in the new film? Did they re-shoot any of the older scenes? Did they digitally insert the new actress into the older scenes? I am curious, especially in light of the article\u2019s description of how the filmmakers tried to insert new footage of Jesus<\/i> into the film.<\/p>\n

2.<\/a> Speaking of movies that fictionalize and recontextualize stories from the Bible, Books & Culture<\/a><\/i> has an article looking at how Evan Almighty<\/a><\/i> (2007) functions within the \u201cancient tradition of Ark midrash\u201d because it is \u201can appropriation of the flood story that reflects the needs and contexts of its readers.\u201d In related news, Carolyn Arends has another<\/i> item<\/a> up at Christianity Today<\/i> in which she springs off a scene in Evan Almighty<\/i> to muse on the relationship between God\u2019s wrath and God\u2019s love.<\/p>\n

3.<\/a> Variety<\/a><\/i> has a review of El cant dels ocells<\/a><\/i>, AKA Birdsong<\/i>, a Spanish film that played at Cannes a couple weeks ago:<\/p>\n

Patience was no doubt required of the Three Wise Men as they made their way toward Bethlehem, and the same will be required of auds who seek out \u201cBirdsong,\u201d Albert Serra\u2019s minimalist reinterpretation of the Magi\u2019s journey. Hushed, contemplative but often quite droll experiment offers beautifully sculpted images on a black-and-white canvas across its sometimes hypnotic, sometimes tedious runtime. . . .<\/p>\n

Three robed men (all played by thesps with the first name Lluis) tread very, very slowly across a craggy landscape, bickering comically over how they should proceed in their search for the Christ Child. Grounded in desert dunes and rocky ruins, pic reps a profound attempt to locate the spiritual within the material. . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This reminds me, I have wanted to see Ermanno Olmi\u2019s Cammina, cammina<\/a><\/i> (1982), which also concerns the journey of the Magi, for some time, but none of the local video stores seem to have it.<\/p>\n

4.<\/a> Variety<\/a><\/i> reports that NBC likes what it has seen of the pilot episode<\/a> for Kings<\/a><\/i>, Michael Green\u2019s modernized take on the rivalry between Saul and David, and has picked it up as a series, starring Ian McShane and Christopher Egan.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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