Michael Sheen returns to his motherland in this ambitious project: an updated passion play filmed in three days in the streets (and beaches) of Port Talbot over Easter 2011.
Watch The Greatest Story Ever Told on Amazon. With a star-studded cast, including Charlton Heston, Sidney Poitier, and John Wayne, it’s a must for movie buffs with long attention spans. My favorite moment is Herod’s inadvertently modern response of “Get out!” when told of miracles. Unfortunately, the whole effect is rather monotone and lifeless. Blessed with a spectacularly nerdy (or perhaps hipster?) haircut, he talks in the kind of slow, sonorous tones that suggest Max von Sydow is trying his best to be reverent. Not to be confused with Il Messia (1975), the last film Roberto Rossellini directed and a more conventional take on Jesus (played by the lovely Pier Maria Rossi). It may not have the highest production values, but it’s certainly a version of the story I haven’t seen on screen before. Instead, he is saved from his fate by God, and the unfortunate Judas finds himself changing “amazingly in face and speech to be like Jesus” just in time for the Romans to arrest him. Using stories from the Qur’an and the non-Biblical Gospel of Barnabas, we still get the virgin birth and various miracles, but this time we have an alternative ending where Jesus isn’t crucified. Played by Ahmad Soleimani Nia, this is Jesus’ story told from the Islamic perspective. (Sorry, Zalman King.) 23. The Messiah (2007)Įven Iranian Muslim Jesus can’t escape being blonde. (And better casting – John the Baptist is weirdly elderly.) Jesus preaches in the screechy manner of an angry TV evangelist, his message of love at odds with his mean little face. There are some interesting re-interpretations (Jesus causing a ruckus in the temple as a pre-meditated strike rather than a genuine overflow of indignation, Judas being a friend of Barrabas and trying to combine all the rebels for maximum impact) but the film itself could have done with more polish. It seems a bit risky to me, but then I’ve always found the most haunting horror films are the ones where pranks go wrong. Despite his disciples’ warnings of “rusty nails and splintered bones,” Jesus is determined to fulfill the prophecy of a Messiah who rises from the dead. While The Da Vinci Code popularized the theory that Jesus was married, another conspiracy had emerged decades earlier: what if Jesus “came back to life” because he’d never really died? Based on a 1965 bestseller, the plot centers on a drug which can simulate the appearance of death. It’s not the greatest film on the life of Jesus, but the addition of jaunty country music makes it enjoyably original.īuy Gospel Road: A Story Of Jesus on Amazon. While we now ridicule the image of a light-haired, blue-eyed Jesus, it was de rigueur in 1973, and Elfstrom is so Caucasian he’s positively Nordic. Director Robert Elfstrom also doubled up as the lead.
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