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...Thus, in the 28-minute Passion segment of "Il Vangelo," does Jesus stride to his death, across the same countryside (Matera, in Puglia, near the heel of the Italian boot) where Gibson shot much of his film. And the mob rushes after him. One screams: "His blood be on our children!" This is the phrase, implicitly condemning Jews for the murder of Christ, that Gibson said he removed from his film. (Turned out, he removed only the subtitle for the Aramaic translation of the curse.) We leave for another day the debate over whether a film is anti-Jewish...
...script by Anthony Burgess and top Italian filmwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico ("Open City," "The Bicycle Thief," "Big Deal on Madonna Street," "The Leopard") makes clear the legal grounds for killing Jesus. Under Mosaic law, blasphemy ("I'm Yahweh") is a capital crime; under Roman law, calling yourself King of the Jews is treason. The writers' touch is especially careful and coherent in the trial scene. The Sanhedrin is no lynch mob; they are a group of elders searching for common ground, trying to understand a young rebel who gives them no quarter. ("I beg you, bring peace...
...menacing force is roaming the Iraqi countryside. They are armed to the teeth, and they want your pottery. They call themselves the “Culture Cops,” and their Italian-designed, vase-emblazoned uniforms are the hottest thing to hit the Mesopotamian marshes since the July United Service Organizations tour of California’s recently-inaugurated governor. Officially known as the Archaeological Site Protection Force, this band of former civilian guards represents America’s latest attempt to quell the broad criticism of its failure to protect Iraq’s cultural treasures from being...
Funded by the State Department and trained by Italian national police, their ranks are barely sufficient to patrol six of Iraq’s 18 provinces, and their presence has thus far proved little more than an annoyance to hardened looters. Iraq is a mine of ancient treasures, with over 100,000 archaeological sites, only a tenth of which are registered. Even when fully trained and mobilized, the 2,000 armed police will be a barely-serviceable deterrent...
...says the book business doesn't care about art anymore? It's not the art of fiction we have in mind here. It's fiction that manages to work in a few Italian frescoes or a Dutch still life. Stirred by the success of Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring, about a household servant who inspires Vermeer, publishers have rushed in with titles like Christopher Peachment's Caravaggio; Will Davenport's The Painter, about Rembrandt; and Mario Vargas Llosa's The Way to Paradise, about Gauguin. As a rule, the books are intelligent, sometimes even ingenious...