Note: This is a shortened version of an essay written for my new book, Scorsese by Ebert. Reading my 1988 review of “The Last Temptation of Christ,” I find it is more concerned with theology than cinema. It must have driven Martin Scorsese crazy to read reviews of “The Last Temptation of Christ” in which critics appointed themselves arbiters of the manhood or godliness of Jesus Christ
"Jesus Christ Superstar," featuring music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice, has been around for over 50 years. The musical is a rock opera set that follows the last week of Jesus
Before "Jesus Christ Superstar" was a film, it was a Broadway show. The theater production started in 1973 and continues to be one of the most oft-staged productions to this day (via Providence Journal). Yet, even as a broadway production, it received criticism from various religious groups.
The notion of basing a film on one of them, he wrote, "threw in the shade all the other ideas for work I had in my head." The result was his film "The Gospel According to St. Matthew" (1964), which was filmed mostly in the poor, desolate Italian district of Basilicata, and its capital city, Matera. (Forty years later, Mel Gibson would film "The
The Jesus Film is a wonderful Jesus movie that adapts The Gospel of Luke, save for John 3:16-17. The movie also sticks very close to The Bible. It's one of the best movies ever made about Jesus, though admittedly looking at it as a movie, it has a few flaws. As I said, The Jesus Film stays very close to Luke.
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