Word: jesus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...history. Searching for inspiration, the buddies visit a cemetery across the street from Maximus Films. Abruptly, the body of a long-buried mogul passes in review. Is it an apparition? What about the hideous beast that begins to haunt the Brown Derby restaurant? And the performer who has played Jesus Christ in movies for 25 years: Is he an actor or an authentic Saviour? Are they all characters in someone else's movie...
...JESUS OF MONTREAL. An avant-garde theater troupe performs its own radical updating of the Passion play. Now, shouldn't a film with that story enrage a few conservative zealots? Alas, Denys Arcand's French-Canadian satire is so solemn that it is not worth patronizing -- or even picketing...
...viewer one thing at a time to look at, one emotion to feel. A dyna-movie demands more; the eye must search every corner of the film frame for glancing gags. Look closely in the villain's lair in RoboCop 2 and find effigies of his patron saints: Jesus, Mother Teresa, Elvis, Oliver North. Listen hard to Gremlins 2 and catch witty details about zillionaire Daniel Clamp's cable empire. It includes 24-hour channels devoted to archery and laundry, and a movie channel featuring "Casablanca, but with color -- and a happier ending." Gremlins 2 should carry the warning...
...Deity is described as being "like a mother who will not forsake her nursing child." Moreover, belief that the Holy Spirit "calls women and men to all ministries of the church" is for the first time elevated to creedal status alongside such fundamental matters as the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And the soothing assertion that the Holy Spirit "sets us free to accept ourselves" is more akin to pop psychology than to the stern confessions of yore. What would John Calvin...
...commission reworked the basic text, itself a 19th century revision by a local priest, Alois Daisenberger. The new version was prepared in consultation with Jewish agencies and two Catholic scholars, Leonard Swidler and the Rev. Gerard Sloyan of Temple University. The numerous alterations include the re-Judaization of Jesus and his disciples, who wear prayer shawls and yarmulkes, and the removal of stereotypes of the Jews as avaricious and mercenary. "They have made very significant improvements," says Swidler, who has been working with the text commission for twelve years. "There are very few things remaining we would see as problems...