Looking at film interpretations of the stories in the Bible - past, present and future, as well as preparation for a future work on Straub/Huillet's Moses und Aron and a few bits and pieces on biblical studies.
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It's been eight months since Angel Studios' animated family-friendly musical David (2025) was released in the USA, but next month it will finally open in the UK, with a seemingly decent selection of cinemas lined up to screen it. This is something that is becoming increasingly common for animated biblical children's films, following Noah's Ark: A Musical Adventure ( Arca de Noé , Brazil) in 2024…
Image from David (2025) Somewhere before I've made the following point about the height comparison between Saul and Goliath, but I can't seem to locate where so I'll lay it out again. While most translations of the Bible still give Goliath's height as "six cubits and a span" (around 9'6") this is because either they are too old to know better, or because – often in contravention of their stated…
This post is part of a series looking at Amazon Prime's show House of David (2025) . There are some major spoilers in what follows even though most are 2500 years old. Plot Flashback to David's first trip to the Tabernacle where his presence caused an outrage. In the story's present day we see David has been telling Mychal about that day. Saul tells Avner to get Joab to kill the one Samuel…
Gabriellino D'Annunzio and Georg Jacoby's 1924 Italian silent is not one of the more popular adaptations of Henryk Sienkiewicz 's 1896 novel "Quo Vadis?" , but it has now been given a decent restoration by Nederlands Filmmuseum who have made it available to watch on YouTube . Italian cinema found itself in a precarious state after the First World War. While the European nations were fighting among…
This post is part of a series looking at Amazon Prime's show House of David (2025) . There are some major spoilers in what follows even though most are 2500 years old. I'm running short for time, and don't have much to say for this one, but I'll start with a plot overview and see what follows from there. Plot Eshbaal is tortured by the Philistines, almost to the point of submission, but resists.…
Ecoadaptation: Mediating Nature and the Environment Edited by Pamela Demory Palgrave MacMillan 297 pages - Hardback ISBN 978-3032098467 DOI https://doi.org/10.1007 /978-3-032-09847-4 Publication Date: 21/04/2026 I've just had a chapter published in this book Ecoadaptation: Mediating Nature and the Environment . It was a great privilege to be included in this book – my first time under the umbrella…
This post is part of a series looking at Amazon Prime's show House of David (2025) . There are some major spoilers in in what follows even though most are 2500 years old. I'm going to work with a different format this series, and generally go into a little less detail than I did with series 1 – I'm trying to be more effective in my use of time. Let's see how that goes... Plot Opening flash forward…
A friend I know only as Shota, messaged me a while back hoping I could help them identify a European Jesus film they had seen. I couldn't, but thankfully they eventually tracked it down and were kind enough to let me know the details. They also found it on YouTube and were kind enough to provide English subtitles. The film is called Пустыня (1991), which anglicises as Pustynya. Shota translated…
This post is part of a series looking at Amazon Prime's show House of David (2025) . There are some major spoilers in in what follows even though most are 2500 years old. The new season of House of David has recently landed on Amazon Prime, and having enjoyed Season 1 I am keen to catch up on it, not least because it ended in the middle of the battle just moments after David has killed Goliath.…
It's been a year since series 5 of The Chosen , subtitled The Last Supper was showing in theatres. One of the most innovative things that series 5 did was in its portrayal of Jesus' last meal with his disciples. Rather than showing it all as one, rather long, scene, it broke it down into eight sections and began each episode with one of these sections. To add an extra twist they arranged the…
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