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JESUS MOVIES I& #39;M TRYING TO (BUT WON& #39;T) WATCH DURING PASSION WEEK
This summer I picked up King of Kings(1961) at a yard sale for no good reason and now I have to watch it. It& #39;s three hours long, I put it on two nights in a row so far and am only half way through. Jesus& #39; eyes=blue
This summer I picked up King of Kings(1961) at a yard sale for no good reason and now I have to watch it. It& #39;s three hours long, I put it on two nights in a row so far and am only half way through. Jesus& #39; eyes=blue
Tubi has Jesus Of Nazareth (1977) streaming for free. Apparently this one is quite good, albeit stuffed with cameos, 6.5 hours long, and starring a Jesus who was cast on the basis of his...amazingly blue eyes.
I haven& #39;t seen it, but I have on VHS a copy of The Miracle Maker, which is stop-motion animated and from the perspective of Jairus& #39; daughter. I read that it& #39;s an underrated gem! I think Ralph Fiennes voices Jesus.
We have the VHS, I might also have a DVD (a street fair evangelist gave me like 10), I& #39;m sure you can watch it online; but I can& #39;t bring myself to put on the 1970s Jesus movie, apparently nearly word for word out of The Gospel of Luke.
Nor is this the year I& #39;ll watch The Gospel of John, a word-for-word adaptation from 2003 that I think you can watch on the same website as the older Jesus movie.
I think Tubi has the Bruce Marchiano-starring Gospel of Matthew movie that started Mr. Marchiano playing Jesus almost as a career. But what I& #39;m *actually* interested in seeing is Pier Pasolini& #39;s 1963 Italian language Gospel According to St. Matthew...
...which apparently stars a 19 year old law student as Jesus and is supposed to be among the best Biblical films ever made, despite Pasolini being an atheist. Tubi has the original b&w version as well as a severely shortened colorized and dubbed version.
Tubi also has The Passion of the Christ (and the edited broadcast version too!) which I& #39;ve been saying I& #39;ll finally watch for a few years now. Hopefully this year.
Oh, expletive, I have my unwatched copy of The Bible miniseries (I watched the broadcast) on DVD here too, which was...edited or something? into the film Son of God, which I don& #39;t have. Not motivated to watch that.
I feel like I should want to watch that recent Mary Magdalene movie with Rooney Mara, but what I *actually* want to see is that recent film starring Ewan McGregor as both Jesus and Satan (the film is about Jesus& #39; temptation in the wilderness)
Not watching The Young Messiah. Or The Greatest Story Ever Told, despite Max von Sydow as Jesus and John Wayne cameoing as a centurion.
Can I rewatch Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)? Low-key my favorite Bible movie.
Let& #39;s not forget local Bible theater Sight & Sound is making their recording of their musical Jesus available via TBN for free for a few days later this week!
I feel like I started this thread to clarify which Jesus movies I should watch this week and now I& #39;m more confused then ever. Maybe I need to break them up into a three-year cycle like the lectionary does with the gospel readings
