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...solitary nature, led him to pioneer the now-common practice of independent financing. It was via this method that Malick made his first feature, “Badlands,” in 1973. Five years after “Badlands” came “Days of Heaven,” which film critic Roger Ebert has placed in the “Great Movies” section of his website, commenting calling it “above all one of the most beautiful films ever made. Malick’s purpose is not to tell a story...
...apocryphal scene of his death surrounded by Mary and Jesus was translated into his patronage of good deaths. ("When I was a little Catholic girl," recalls Anne Rice, "we used to pray to Joseph for a happy death.") Eventually he was assumed to protect the Universal Church from heaven as he had the Family on earth. In 1955 Pope Pius XII traded on Joseph's identification as a working man, decreeing a second feast day for him on May 1 to compete with communist May Day galas. In 1962 Pope John XXIII inserted Joseph's name in the canon...
...today, the most creative popular inquirer into Joseph's merits may well be an evangelical Protestant. Jerry Jenkins looks cautious, almost nervous discussing Holding Heaven's boldness. "If we get criticized for Left Behind," he says, "it's, 'Are you adding to Scripture?' And we say, 'We're not adding. We're saying what prophesy would really look like.' You're really on more dangerous territory, though, when you quote an entire chapter and a half of a novella from a guy who's not quoted in Scripture, ever...
...Holding Heaven, Jenkins' project with illustrator Ron DiCianni, has only two scenes: one in Egypt as Joseph talks his restless infant to sleep by describing the miracles of his life thus far and another 30 years later at the Nazareth carpenter's deathbed as the old man querulously but determinedly extracts from the adult Jesus the grim story of Christ's future and his good news for humanity...
...rocked a sleepless infant or grasped a bedridden father's hand--as well as a tingly intuition of the special nature of those particular players. When the young Joseph muses that "when You settled into my arms it felt as if I were holding heaven," the Christian reader is meant to realize that he actually...