Old Catholic Movies

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My favorite Catholic movies: The Green Years, Green Dolphin Street, A Man For All Seasons and Anne of a Thousand Days. All time favorite Catholic film/miniseries (newer, 1981) Brideshead Revisited, I watch it every year since I bought the DVD, and had to buy two new copies, when I lent it out and didn’t get it back. Any more info on the Nativity Story. The trailer did look good, but I would hope that the Protestant film makers would neither add or take away from the Gospel, as they believe so strongly in the Bible as the source and summit of their faith. I pray that Our Lady and St. Joseph are not misrepresented in anyway.
 
LilyM said:
Funny I should be reading this thread now - Quo Vadis is playing on my television right this minute! I’d love to see more movies made about the lives and times of the Apostles - they all seem to focus on Jesus, don’t they.
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Yep. I bought a DVD of it some days ago, It’s beautiful.

As an aside, Is it possible for Protestants to find Quo Vadis to have some Catholic elements on it (Christians having a Cross in their houses, Saint Paul baptizing using the Trinitarian Formula and an emphasis on Saint Peter)?
 
One of my favorites is Diary of a Country Priest (1951; dir. Robert Bresson; based on novel by Georges Bernanos).

It’s not an easy film to watch, nor an exciting one on the surface, but I find it a wonderful and realistic portrait of Catholic spiritual life… of carrying the Cross and the struggle toward holiness. I really identified with it, found it very spiritually stirring, and actually found it comforting in a way.

It is a beautiful black and white film–I recommend the recently restored DVD version. It’s pricey to buy, but you can find it on Netflix.
 
La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc. A beautiful silent film from 1928. It was recently re-released, and a new music track was added.
 
A good movie is “The reluctant Saint” the story of St. Joseph of Cupertino…
 
patrick457 said:
Why is there a trend to depict Pilate as bald right now? :confused:
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Well, for what it’s worth, the word “pilatus” (which is what Pilate’s name is in Latin) is the past partciple of the verb “pilo” which means to make bald.
Of course, his name could also come from the adjective “pilatus” which means “armed with a javelin.”
 
Tenebrae said:
Well, for what it’s worth, the word “pilatus” (which is what Pilate’s name is in Latin) is the past partciple of the verb “pilo” which means to make bald.
Of course, his name could also come from the adjective “pilatus” which means “armed with a javelin.”
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Thanks for that. 👍

For the record, we have another addition to the very short-haired/almost bald Pilates :D:

http://www.signis.net/IMG/jpg/bbc-passion-4.jpg

James Nesbitt, from BBC’s The Passion, aired at Holy Week this year.
 
patrick457 said:
Thanks for that. 👍

For the record, we have another addition to the very short-haired/almost bald Pilates :D:

http://www.signis.net/IMG/jpg/bbc-passion-4.jpg

James Nesbitt, from BBC’s The Passion, aired at Holy Week this year.
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He did an interesting version of Jekyll and Hyde a little while ago - the way he could, without a lot of physical transformation, still convincingly inhabit the two very different characters of Jekyll and Hyde was really clever.
 
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