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The Shadow of Nazareth (1913)

Shadow of Nazareth is unusual amongst Jesus films because it sits, somewhat awkwardly between films that are primarily about Jesus, and tho...

Carl Theodor Dreyer is rightly revered as a filmmaker of some repute, whose bold and uncompromising films, such as Ordet (1954) and La Pass...

This is the latest in a series of posts about the relationship between the Bible, the idea of canonicity and film. The latter part of the s...

Robert Wiene will, rightly, always be best remembered for his 1920 expressionistic classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari , but by 1923 with hi...

Thanhouser's The Star of Bethlehem (dir. Lawrence Marston, 1912) originally ran to three reels, but only around one reel's worth of...

Please note this post is very much a work in progress and as such a few parts of it need closer fact checking In the previous two posts in t...

In my previous entry in this series I was looking at how the stories from the Hebrew Bible that the earliest filmmakers adapted into the f...

For a long time I've been meaning to sit down and actually watch La naissance, la vie et la mort du Christ ( The Birth, Life and Death...