Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW. The life of Christ in a fresh and fascinating film based wholly on Scripture and played like an act of faith by a non-professional cast under Director Pier Paolo Pasolini, an Italian Communist...
...Kurt J. Isselbacher, Matthew A. Budd, and Lewis B. Holmes of the Medical School, and Dr. Kay Tanaka, a visiting assistant professor at the Med School from the University of Tokyo, believe that a special low-protein diet may prevent the brain damage...
Such problems were simpler for Dreyer to deal with. Joan's characters were neither so numerous nor so challenged by our preconceived images. And as a "trial story," Dreyer's film was better suited to objective, formal set-ups, which are less risky than Matthew's hand-held tracking shots...
...worst problem in Matthew was one which no film of Joan's era had to deal with--the sound track. Pasolini gambled again, trying to match the implicit emotional values of his music to those of his images. He has permitted himself to range from Bach to Mozart to Prokoviev to Odetta to the Missa Luba to Leadbelly. Running head-on against our various stock responses, he inevitably creates image-sound discords. For me such discords arose between the healing of a leper and a cotton-field blues moan, between the infant Jesus and Odetta's annoyingly mannered "Sometimes...
...general, however, Matthew is a masterpiece of restraint. I am grateful, however, for the one somewhat pyrotechnical sequence in it, which some reviews have objected to. This is the Sermon on the Mount, which is abridged, but still of a length that could not be managed visually without some staging extravagance. The alternation of day and night, good weather and bad, is what Pasolini has directed, brilliantly, I think...