Easter Television

[Nelka]

They are thinking of the FULL three days later…they don’t understand that the Jewish sabbath began at sundown on Friday… Jesus was placed in the romb on Friday afternoon…3 PM - 6PM (or there abouts) - 1 day. 6 PM or there abouts…to the next day at 6 PM or so…2nd day…then the start of the third day…

I think that’s how they came to the concluson of Thursday.

I’m Catholic and even **I **understand how the Jewish Sabbath works.

The thing that irritates me is that scientists are trying ti disprove the Old Testament plagues and the parting of the red sea…if there truly were ~600,000 israelites (not sure of actual #)…low tide would have ended before they all crossed…

Scientists can’t understand why around the dead sea where Sodom and Gomorrah were there is pure sulphur like hailstones imbedded in the rock and sulphur doesn’t generate like that anywhere on earth.

 

[barb_finnegan]

Check Turner Classic Movies:

Holy Saturday:
4:30am: The Silver Chalice (1954)

Easter Sunday:
7am: Easter Parade (1948)
9am: Barabbas (1962)
11:30am: King of Kings (1961)
2:30pm: The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
6:00pm: Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
8:00pm: Godspell (1973)
10:00pm: The Godless Girl (1929)
12:15am: Ordet (1955)

Awesome lineup.

What an strange mix: from the sublime to the secular to the ridiculous.

I watched the last ten to fifteen minutes of "The Greatest Story Ever Told’ at a friend’s house, where I was invited for Easter dinner. The other people who were watching it kind of put it down at times-I think it was the ‘inaccuracies’ they were talking about. I liked it, myself; I did have some ‘fun’ [for want of a better word ] pointing out the many cameo appearances (Sidney Poitier as Simon the Cyrenian, John Wayne as the Centurion at the foot of the Cross, Pat Boone as the Angel at the tomb on Easter). I loved the music: Requiae Eterna’ from the Verdi ‘Requiem’ (instrumental) at the Way of the Cross and the ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ by Handel at the Resurrection and Ascension in the end.

‘The Silver Chalice’ I watched last Easter at the same house. It was unintentionally funny, to be honest. I have the book that it was based on, but the movie was nothing like the book! I was not surprised that Paul Newman disowned it! Quite an inauspicious debut for him!

Whoa-‘Superstar’ and ‘Godspell’ take me back to my younger days when I was in my late teens and early twenties! I feel ashamed now as I remember how I liked some of the songs in both films (in their stage versions)…yikes! How stupid I was back then!

 

[utah_rose]

What an strange mix: from the sublime to the secular to the ridiculous.

I watched the last ten to fifteen minutes of "The Greatest Story Ever Told’ at a friend’s house, where I was invited for Easter dinner. The other people who were watching it kind of put it down at times-I think it was the ‘inaccuracies’ they were talking about. I liked it, myself; I did have some ‘fun’ [for want of a better word ] pointing out the many cameo appearances (Sidney Poitier as Simon the Cyrenian, John Wayne as the Centurion at the foot of the Cross, Pat Boone as the Angel at the tomb on Easter). I loved the music: Requiae Eterna’ from the Verdi ‘Requiem’ (instrumental) at the Way of the Cross and the ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ by Handel at the Resurrection and Ascension in the end.

‘The Silver Chalice’ I watched last Easter at the same house. It was unintentionally funny, to be honest. I have the book that it was based on, but the movie was nothing like the book! I was not surprised that Paul Newman disowned it! Quite an inauspicious debut for him!

I watched “The Robe” a lot of what I had forgotten. A very young Richard Burton headed the cast. I remember seeing the movie in “Cineascope” at a large theatre in Cleveland when it first came out.

Couldn’t recognize most of the other stars though except Victor Mature.

To tell the truth, I enjoyed “The Ten Commandments the Most”, even though a lot of it was inaccurate.

On Good Friday since I couldn’t attend Church (my husband was ill) I watched “The Passion of the Christ” and probably got more out of that than the Church Services, at least in our Church since they were bi=lingual.

Whoa-‘Superstar’ and ‘Godspell’ take me back to my younger days when I was in my late teens and early twenties! I feel ashamed now as I remember how I liked some of the songs in both films (in their stage versions)…yikes! How stupid I was back then!

 

[KevinAK]

Ugh – I just watched healthy portions of “Jesus Christ Superstar” and “Godspell” on TCM.

These are AWFUL!! Of course it can be said that these silly portrayals of our Lord are profaning the sacred, but even from a movie point of view they are simply terrible. Both were made in 1973. Back then I was only 3, but if these miserable films are representative of that time, it seems like everyone was tripping out on bad drugs that year.

Superstar was rated G when it came out. What was the ratings board thinking?

 

[puzzleannie]

between networks and satellite this weekend had King of Kings, Greatest Story, 10 Commandments (always on ABC I think), Passion of the Christ (2 separate Christian networks, TBN and GMT I think), Jesus Christ Superstar, Godspell. I think TCM had “Jesus movies” all day.

saw “road to Emmaus” on TBN, which is great because I plan to use that video with Confirmation class on May 1.

there was also the usual side-ways Christian-bashing on the History Channel with its pseudo-Jesus programs.

 

[maryjk]

The History Channel had a great two hour show on the Vatican.