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...been a tough year for the Jews. Mel Gibson set off anti-Semitic smoke alarms with his film The Passion of the Christ. Judith Steinberg Dean let herself be trotted out before the voters just in time to see her husband's presidential campaign implode. And the first fully reconceived Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof since the 1964 original has been faulted for ethnic blandness. Writing in the Los Angeles Times before the show opened, author Thane Rosenbaum (The Golems of Gotham) criticized the show for "an absence of Jewish soul...
Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List and Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ couldn't seem farther apart. Gibson's film is accused of fanning hatred against the Jews; Spielberg's, which won the Best Picture Oscar and six others in 1994, dramatizes the toxic effects of that hatred, and the ability of one man--the gentile factory owner Oskar Schindler--to save 1,200 Jews in Poland during the Nazi Occupation. The two movies are kin, though, as serious, violent historical dramas made against great odds--and as personal testaments that, their directors have said, transformed them...
...emotional response stirred by Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ has historical precedent. Witness the furor from Christian groups over Martin Scorsese's fictionalized version of the life of JESUS, The Last Temptation of Christ, the subject of a 1988 TIME cover...
...Gibson defends the film by saying that he wanted to be faithful to the texts, but there are two problems with his defense. First, though I don’t presume to be a Biblical scholar, I have read enough commentaries by some who state that there are definite inaccuracies. Mother Mary goes to Roman soldiers for help in one scene, which isn’t right. Although the subtitle is clipped out, Pilate still proclaims to the Jews that “His blood is on your hands,” even though this is only in one gospel...
While the award for Most Violent Film Ever has been recently handed off to Mel Gibson, Quentin Tarantino certainly provides his fair share of splattered glory in last year’s instant midnight-movie classic. Uma Thurman first fights Vivica A. Fox, then Buck (who likes to…rhyme), then eighty eight Japanese mobsters (including a blood-craving, mace-twirling schoolgirl), and finally Lucy Liu. The story’s second (and supposedly better) half has been postponed until April 16, so make sure to experience this first sanguineous volume on the big screen. Tickets...