― The River Kate (kate), Saturday, 21 February 2004 21:10 (9 years ago) Permalink
― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 03:38 (9 years ago) Permalink
I like Barbara Hershey. She's excellent. I am a huge fan of Mr. Dafoe. Supercool as Jesus.
The ending with the technicolored Stan Brakhage type stuff was awesome.
And I agree about the soundtrack. It's crazy that NIN sampled it!
― Star Hustler, Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:12 (9 years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:15 (9 years ago) Permalink
― Star Hustler, Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:19 (9 years ago) Permalink
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:23 (9 years ago) Permalink
― Star Hustler, Tuesday, 24 February 2004 05:26 (9 years ago) Permalink
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 06:26 (9 years ago) Permalink
soundtrack to this shit is awwwwesome
― max, Monday, 28 July 2008 03:24 (4 years ago) Permalink
In my day, a premium choice for hot hot dorm room sex. (Did you remember to put the scrunchy on the doorknob?)
― kenan, Monday, 28 July 2008 03:29 (4 years ago) Permalink
the sources disc is good too
― max, Monday, 28 July 2008 04:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
harvey keitel's judas was a little rich.
-- s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, February 24, 2004 5:23 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link
after getting those 30 pieces of silver, sure!
― latebloomer, Monday, 28 July 2008 14:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
Music, great. Film, dud, spoiled by wildly inappropriate accents as much as anything else. If there's one thing even Gibson/Passion-haters have to agree, it's that the attention to language/detail in the Gibson film was ace. It's kind of spoiled other "historical" films for me where they speak in English (when the characters wouldn't have).
― James Morrison, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 00:39 (4 years ago) Permalink
like "romeo and juliet" for example
― max, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 00:41 (4 years ago) Permalink
if only shakespeare had paid as much attention to the language and detail of italy as gibson did to judea and galilee
― max, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 00:42 (4 years ago) Permalink
shakespeare's "italy" was more or less invented, tho
― goole, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 00:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
ha, like gibson's "jerusalem" wasn't?
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 00:52 (4 years ago) Permalink
uh yeah but the bible's jerusalem wasn't. we have texts in aramaic, there's no original italian version of romeo and juliet
god i need to get out of the house
― goole, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 00:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
yeah but scorsese differs so greatly from the bible on plot points that you can hardly expect him to make the accents scrupulously faithful
― max, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 00:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
yeah, that's true. i should see this again but i remember bowie as pilate being good. and john lurie! who's he, thomas or something? if john lurie is in your movie, i will go see it.
― goole, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 01:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
My main problem was Keitel as Brooklyn Judas.
― James Morrison, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 07:29 (4 years ago) Permalink
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Good non-argument, though. Shakespeare, that well-known Hollywood director of historical films.
― James Morrison, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 09:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
how was Last Temptation a historical film other than that it did recreate events from the Bible sprinkled with a story that was mostly fiction?
HOW CUM THE PPL IN STAR WARS ALL SPEAK ENGLISHSHSH
― Elvin Wayburn Phillips, Sunday, 2 August 2009 18:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
The Sound of Music wd be way better if they all spoke German.
― Calamari Merkin (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 2 August 2009 19:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
I don't get why they had english accents tho
― Cyberdune Butt (Elvin Wayburn Phillips), Sunday, 2 August 2009 19:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
implacable upper-class gravitas in English is the way to go with historical films.
― Akon/Family (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 2 August 2009 20:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
"I say Genghis, would you pass the Yak milk please?"
"Certainly old chap. Wind's getting up on the Steppes tonight, what?"
― Calamari Merkin (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 2 August 2009 20:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
I wish everybody in Boyz in the Hood spoke like Michael Caine
― Cyberdune Butt (Elvin Wayburn Phillips), Sunday, 2 August 2009 20:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
just saw this again for the third time. surprisingly fewer special features than most Criterion dvds, but the movie alone is worth it. beautifully shot too
― Cyberdune Butt (Elvin Wayburn Phillips), Monday, 3 August 2009 05:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
Love this track:
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 October 2010 20:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
I love both the movie and the Gabriel soundtrack. both are favorites. but the Gabriel soundtrack is just chilling at times.
― THE SOMEWHAT COMPETENT RANDY (San Te), Saturday, 9 October 2010 21:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
I don't even mind that it's even a bit tacky in places (e.g. the walloping beats on a few tracks).
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 October 2010 21:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
may even be my favorite Gabriel
― THE SOMEWHAT COMPETENT RANDY (San Te), Saturday, 9 October 2010 21:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
was definitely my favorite when it came out, and for a few years after, but it sounds pretty dated to me now; I think I even prefer Us to it. but, of it's time, it's pretty good.
― akm, Saturday, 9 October 2010 22:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
Glenn Kenny on the BluRay:
While the first Criterion standard-def disc was released, it was “fine,” as they say, but not as special as one felt maybe it ought to have been. This new Blu-ray IS all that. Utterly beautiful. Seeing it in this presentation, with fresh eyes, it’s like a new film, and there’s so much to see IN it. This time around, for instance, for the first time I really felt its Bressonian touches—the shots of hands, of gestures, of figures walking. The colors in this version , the ever-so-slightly pink sand of the desert; amazing. We can finally revel in this as one of Scorsese’s very greatest films. A real blessing.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 April 2012 19:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
David Bowie's Roman haircut like you've never seen it before!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 April 2012 19:46 (1 year ago) Permalink