Review: The Bible Collection (dir. various, 1993-1995)
• Abraham, Warner Alliance, 1993, dir. Joseph Sargent. • Jacob, Warner Alliance, 1994, dir. Peter Hall. • Joseph, Warner Alliance, 1995, dir. Roger Young. BIBLE MOVIES refer so often to “the God of our...
View ArticleHebrew Hammer sequel: time-traveling into both testaments
The Jewish Journal reports that writer-director Jonathan Kesselman is looking at making a sequel to The Hebrew Hammer, the 2003 “Jewsploitation” flick that starred Adam Goldberg as an Orthodox private...
View ArticlePutting a bit of the New Testament into the Old
I just came across a few more videos from The Bible, the mini-series that premieres on the History Channel next month. In one, the actress who plays Samson’s mother describes her character as “a woman...
View ArticleThe Bible: first episode, first impressions
From creation to Joshua, how did The History Channel do portraying the Good Book?
View ArticleThe Bible / What works and what doesn’t in the ambitious mini-series
It’s common these days for each new episode of a TV series to begin with a montage that sums up all the relevant plot points from previous episodes. So it was only natural that, when the History...
View ArticleAbraham and the Three Visitors: five filmed interpretations
Five films, five different ways to interpret the mysterious story in which Abraham receives three mysterious visitors. (Are they angels? Is one of them God?)
View ArticleBible movie of the week: The Bible: In the Beginning… (1966)
The last major film produced during the classic Bible-epic era is a leisurely paced, creative and occasionally abstract treatment of the first 22 chapters of Genesis.
View ArticleExclusive: Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel on how they developed the script...
Part two of my exclusive four-part interview with the makers of Noah.
View ArticleNoah interview round-up: co-writer Ari Handel
The co-writer and co-producer of Darren Aronofsky's Noah discusses fidelity to the text, whether God can learn something from humans, and the surprising backlash the film has received from some...
View ArticleLaurence Fishburne to play Melchizedek in The Alchemist?
A recent casting rumour prompted me to dig up the two films I can think of that depict this mysterious king and/or priest who blessed Abraham.
View ArticleThe life of Isaac, son of Abraham: a movie treatment
There are many movies about his father Abraham, his son Jacob and his grandson Joseph -- but there are no movies about Isaac himself. Here's why that's something of a missed opportunity.
View ArticleWhy are some Bible stories turned into movies more often than others?
Is there a "canon" of Bible films, independent of the biblical canon itself? And is there a reason why certain biblical stories get filmed again and again while others go ignored?
View ArticleProphet Joseph — episodes one and two
The stories of Jacob and his son Joseph are told from a Muslim point of view in this Iranian TV series.
View ArticleProphet Joseph — episodes five and six
In which Joseph's brothers finally turn against him -- with a little prodding from Satan himself -- and Jacob declares that "Palestinians" were living in Canaan even before Abraham moved there.
View ArticleProphet Joseph — episodes thirty-nine and forty
In which the relationship between Joseph and Zuleikha, Potiphar's widow, reaches a major turning point.
View ArticleProphet Joseph — episodes forty-one and forty-two
In which Joseph and his younger brother Benjamin are finally reunited, and Jacob learns that he must give up his favorite sons the same way Abraham had to sacrifice one of his.
View ArticleProphet Joseph — episodes forty-three to forty-five
In which Joseph and his father Jacob are finally reunited -- and Joseph's brother Judah ends the series on a somewhat ominous note.
View ArticleThe Chosen — season one, episode eight
In which Jesus dines with sinners, heals a mother-in-law, and befriends an ostracized Samaritan woman.
View ArticleCovenant to depict modernized, dystopic Bible stories
The new streaming series is billed as "Black Mirror meets The Watchmen with Bible roots."
View ArticleInterview: David Helling on directing His Only Son
The first-time feature-film maker talks about tackling one of the Old Testament's more controversial stories and how he tied it back to the story of Jesus.
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