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I have seen The Bible and I believe in it as far as John Huston has translated it correctly. He is sometimes like DeMille and other scriptural movie makers—sugar coating, sentimentalizing, pompous piety—but most of…

A Small Helping of Mormonism | Edgar Reitz, dir., Mahlzeiten

Mahlzeiten is one of Germany’s most discussed current films, and one which will be of special interest to Latter-day Saints. The plot could be reduced to sound like a sensational nineteenth-century thriller: a young married…

Notes from a Mormon Movie-goer

I’m more than a movie-goer, I’m a critic. That means the question, “What did you think of (any movie)?” requires more than “It was great” or “It was lousy.” It means I’m hardly ever paid…

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Moral Tales for Our Times | Eric Rohmer, dir., Chloe in the Afternoon

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Humanity or Divinity? | Martin Scorsese, dir., The Last Temptation of Christ

Outside the San Francisco theater where we saw The Last Temptation of Christ, Christians paraded with guitars, bullhorns, sandwich boards, and placards (some in Cantonese) protesting the blasphemous portrayal of their Lord and Savior. Anti-semitic…

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Marrow: A Review of Richard Dutcher’s Mormon Films

Mormon Scholars in the Humanities Conference: Mormons, Films, Scriptures

For and In Behalf Of

Latter-Day Screens: Mormonism in Popular Culture Brenda R. Weber. Latter-Day Screens: Gender, Sexuality & Mediated Mormonism

Latter-day Screens is a fascinating, compelling, and, at times, frustrating look at a wide range of Mormon-related media. This is largely due to the central conceit of the book—essentially working with Mormonism as a meme and…

History Written in Celluloid Randy Astle. Mormon Cinema: Origins to 1952

In March of 1895, in Paris, Auguste and Louis Lumière screened ten short, single-shot films for an audience of two hundred, and the movies were born. Less than ten months later, after years of petitioning,…

Understudies for Angels Megan Sanborn Jones. Contemporary Mormon Pageantry: Seeking After the Dead

Finding Yourself at the Movies | John Huston, dir., The Bible: In the Beginning . . .

I have seen The Bible and I believe in it as far as John Huston has translated it correctly. He is sometimes like DeMille and other scriptural movie makers—sugar coating, sentimentalizing, pompous piety—but most of…

A Small Helping of Mormonism | Edgar Reitz, dir., Mahlzeiten

Mahlzeiten is one of Germany’s most discussed current films, and one which will be of special interest to Latter-day Saints. The plot could be reduced to sound like a sensational nineteenth-century thriller: a young married…

Notes from a Mormon Movie-goer

I’m more than a movie-goer, I’m a critic. That means the question, “What did you think of (any movie)?” requires more than “It was great” or “It was lousy.” It means I’m hardly ever paid…

Opposition in All Things | Constantin Costa-Gavras, dir., and Franco Solinas, A State of Siege

At the time that Costa-Gavras’ new film, A State of Siege was cancelled at the American Film Institute’s inaugural festival at its new movie theater in Washington’s Kennedy Center, it was described as “rationalizing political…

Moral Tales for Our Times | Eric Rohmer, dir., Chloe in the Afternoon

Chloe is the last and one of the most evocative of Eric Rohmer’s “Six Moral Tales.” The previous stories include La Collectioneuse, My Night at Maud’s, Clair’s Knee, and two shorter works for television.  These…

Humanity or Divinity? | Martin Scorsese, dir., The Last Temptation of Christ

Outside the San Francisco theater where we saw The Last Temptation of Christ, Christians paraded with guitars, bullhorns, sandwich boards, and placards (some in Cantonese) protesting the blasphemous portrayal of their Lord and Savior. Anti-semitic…

Scenes from the Movie

Marrow: A Review of Richard Dutcher’s Mormon Films

Mormon Scholars in the Humanities Conference: Mormons, Films, Scriptures

For and In Behalf Of