The method of Philip Saville's The Gospel of John defies ordinary film criticism and indeed ordinary movie viewing. Dialogue and narration have been taken, verbatim and without omission or ...
In 1964 the Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini created a new mode of presenting Jesus in film. His The Gospel according to St. Matthew is a word-for-word rendering of Matthew’s Gospel. It contains ...
BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Now, the movie version of the gospel according to John — a word-for-word version. Mary Alice Williams is here with a review: MARY ALICE WILLIAMS: Bob, for the first time in 40 ...
Billed as the first in a series of films sponsored by an organization called The Visual Bible, The Gospel Of John delivers just what its title promises: The Gospel Of John, word for word, incident for ...
On the face of things, The Gospel of John seemed like it would be a difficult narrative to convincingly bring to life on the silver screen. For starters, how would they get an audience to sit still ...