In Franco Zefferelli’s beautiful 1977 film,Jesus of Nazareth, we meet another blind man at the pool of Bethsaida in Jerusalem, but unlike Bartimaeus, he is deathly afraid of being healed. “Leave my eyes alone!” he shouts. “Stop touching my eyes!” After analyzing sixty-six cases of ...
Kind of an average film that adds plot points that really are a bit weak. We find out in this one that it was not necessarily the fact the little community was sitting on an old cemetery that was the problem in the first one, but rather that the house was over some burial ground of...
Burial 9 September 1715 Basilica of Saint-Denis Spouses Maria Theresa of Spain (m. 1660; died 1683) Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (private) (m. 1683) Issuemore... Louis, Grand Dauphin Marie Thérèse, Madame Royale Philippe Charles, Duke of Anjou Il...
When I went to Yakutia in the spring to look for an idea for a film, my friends sent me videos of the shaman, recommending him as my future protagonist. But I decided to film him only in June. That was when Vlad Ketkovich, an independent documentary film producer, contacted me. He h...
“I haven’t been smashed by the educational system, the financial system, the political system,” he said. He lived his life on his own terms and with style. When he died, a jazz funeral procession took him through the streets of Mobile for burial at Church Street Cemetery. The ...
The Decemberists & James Mercer - “Burial Ground”“All I Want Is You”“Joan In The Garden” The Decemberists' 13-track As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again goes back to their musical beginnings of chamber-baroque pop. Their long-awaited ninth album moves into ''70s-style prog music...
The first big-screen “motion capture” digital animation film (it’s in Guinness World Records as such), this 2004 fantasy “stars”Tom Hanksas a train conductor who shows a young boy what Christmas is all about. It’s based on a book by the author who also wroteJumanji(4:27 p.m....
Based on the true story of lawyer Willie E. Gary and his client Jeremiah Joseph O'Keefe's lawsuit against the Loewen funeral company, legal drama The Burial stars Oscar-winners Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones. It will be in theaters for one week befor streaming on Hulu. Alan Ruck, Jurnee...
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Iranian animator and writer Mehdi Alibeygi was presented with the special jury award for his surreal short film “Changeover”. “My Mom Is an Airplane” directed by Yulia Aronova from Russia was crowned best film in the About Children Section. ...