Category Archives: religion
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS: Most Important Religion Films of All Time
A list of the 50 Most Important Religion Films of All Time is now online at Film Snobbery, which is paying tribute to "the union of the sacred and cinematic" in celebration of Epiphany (Jan. 6), the final day of the Christmas holiday season. Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ is not the #1 film on the list. Instead, that position belongs to Cecil [...]
DOSTANA, THROUGH THE EYES OF PAINTER: Censorship
Agence France-Presse reports that the radical nationalist Hindu groups Sanatan Sanstha and Hindu Jananagruti have succeeded in getting the International Film Festival of India, held in the old Portuguese territory of Goa, to withdraw Maqbool Fida Husain’s 1967 documentary short Through the Eyes of Painter. Husain, 93, who has been called India’s Picasso, became enmeshed in the mid-1990s in an ugly uproar over his paintings [...]
LATTER DAYS Clip: Mormons Vs. Gays
Californians will be voting on Proposition 8 this coming Tuesday. Considering how religious beliefs are the engine behind the anti-gay marriage proposition, and that according to numerous reports the Mormon Church has been fighting the fight to make sure that gays and lesbians never have their unions recognized by the state, I thought it only appropriate to post a clip from the 2003 romantic [...]
SAVE ME/Gays & Conversion Therapy: Q&A with Robert Cary
A few days ago, when I read an Associated Press report stating that US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s church "is promoting a conference that promises to convert gays into heterosexuals through the power of prayer," I immediately thought of Save Me. Directed by Robert Cary (right) from a screenplay by Robert Desiderio, Save Me, which opens in Los Angeles on Friday, September 19, chronicles the [...]