Author/speaker on film. Wrote @BFI book #100BibleFilms
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NFP data geek by day
Jan 20, 2023 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
Just re-watching this. Had forgotten the credits are sung at the start, which I'm finding pretty hilarious.
Also forgot that Rossana Di Rocco, who plays an angel in IL VANGELO SECONDO MATTEO is also in this, first appearing in an angel costume. #HawksAndSparrows#UccellacciEUccellini
Dec 29, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Trying to find about a bit more about Moving Picture World staff writer "Rev W H Jackson" who was a regular contributor to MPW in the 1910s. He didn't just review religious films. Here he argues live narrators for movies are vital. archive.org/details/movinw…
I suspect a lot of what we knew about Jackson was lost because shortly after him came a more famous Rev WH Jackson, a priest whose blindness did not prevent them from travelling to Myanmar & setting up the Kemmendine Blind School in Rangoon - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H…
Sep 28, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Just come across this film which I don't recall hearing about before SUPERFANTOZZI (Neri Parenti, 1986) which sounds similar to "History of the World pt1" & "Year One" & features both an Eden scene & Jesus
The narrator of this opening scene sounds like the same guy as did the opening narration to Lina Wertmüller's PASQUALINO SETTEBELLEZZE (1975), or at least someone emulating their voice. IMDb doesn't list a narrator for Wertmüller's film tho sadly.
Jan 11, 2022 • 276 tweets • >60 min read
The Hand of God (Paolo Sorrentino) [2021]
Encanto (Jared Bush and Byron Howard) [2021]
