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...produced Alien vs. Predator. And then there's Hardwicke, raised by Texas Presbyterians and best known for her gritty portraits of young people in Thirteen and Lords of Dogtown. For her, the most religious experience in making Nativity was sitting under an ancient olive tree in the town of Matera, Italy, where most of the film was shot. "If I were an angel, I thought, I'd go visit Mary there," says Hardwicke. That's where she set the Annunciation...
...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...
Gibson has few kind words for previous Passion films. Mention Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Gospel According to St. Matthew (which, like Gibson's location shots, was filmed in the Italian town of Matera), and he fakes a big yawn. On Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ: "You've got Harvey Keitel as Judas saying"--and here Gibson shifts into a Brooklyn accent--"'Hey, you ovah dere...
Also elected were: Karen W. Levy, American Literature, Adams House; Elizabeth J. Logsdon, Social Studies, Kirkland House; Army E. Margolin, American Literature, Mather House; Brooke A. Masters, History, Mather House; Elizabethg L. Matera, Literature, Mather House; Martha L. Moore, Religion, Lowell House; Penelope C. Papailias, American Literature, Eliot House; Annie Penn, Biology, Dunster House; Lisa P. Reiss, Psychology, Winthrop House; Kathryn E. Rorer, American Literature, Eliot House; Elizabeth Safran, Geological Sciences, Cabot House; Heidi M.V. Sullivan, Anthropology, Lowell House; and Celia M. Wren. Literature, Quincy House...
...dancers are like fragile 18th century porcelain figures, the young women in Barbara Matera's exceptionally pretty tutus. But there is nothing delicate about the work Martins set them. His choreography tends to be difficult and full of steps; Les Petits Riens, with its big, complicated moves and witchy shifts in direction, is no exception. But the performers' aplomb made the details flow together and the ballet seem like a lyrical visualization of Mozart...