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2) The gospel in grease-paint: creative biblical skits for clowns, mimes, and other fools for Christ
Author
Publisher
Piccadilly Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
172 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Publisher
Paragon Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Pythons satirize religion, capital punishment, revolutionary politics, terrorism, graffiti, science fiction, and a host of other topics through the story of Brian, a first-century Judean.
4) The garden
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Half waking dream and half fiery polemic, this film was born of director Derek Jarman₂s rage over continued anti-gay discrimination and the slow response to the AIDS crisis. This kaleidoscopic film shows the filmmaker₂s genius at its most coruscating, making space in its breadth of vision for an over-the-top Hollywood-style musical number, nightmare images of tar-and-feather queer persecution, and footage of the particularly menacing-looking nuclear...
5) Ordet
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Danish
Description
A study of spiritual faith and love ; the film tells of the death of Inger in childbirth and her resurrection, a miracle that is seen as the result of human love. The film opens as a family of marshland farmers trail a seemingly mad son (Johannes) who calls himself Christ. It closes as Johannes approaches the open coffin of his sister-in-law and, at the urgings of her child, brings her back to life.
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 11
Publisher
RB Media
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Arabic
Description
"During a cease-fire in the Lebanon-Israel conflict of 2006, Tony, a Christian taxi-driver, brings Zeina, a Shiite woman from Beirut, to the heart of the conflict in the country's south. While they scour the rubble of local towns for Zeina's son, they discover that despite their very different backgrounds they have much in common. During their trip through the desolate countryside, the two travelers develop a deep bond as a response to the death surrounding...
7) Amen
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A German SS Lieutenant covertly collaborates with a young Italian priest in hopes of changing the Vatican's policies toward Germany during WWII, which both believe are exacerbating the Jewish Holocaust.
9) Flywheel
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Director's cut.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dishonest used car salesman decides to become the salesman that God wants him to be - with surprising results.
10) The robe
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Marcellus is a Roman tribune in the time of Christ. He is in charge of the group of men that are assigned to crucify Jesus. After the crucifixion, he becomes drunk and wins Jesus' homespun robe. He becomes tormented by nightmares and delusions after the event. Hoping to find a way to live with what he has done, but still not believing in Jesus, he returns to Palestine to try and learn what he can of the man he killed.
11) Ganja & Hess
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An archaeologist is stabbed with an ancient dagger that gives him immortality and an insatiable thirst for blood, which he then shares with his assistant's wife, and the two of them form a troubled partnership.
Publisher
A&E Television Network
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mary Griffith is a devout Christian who raises her children with the conservative teachings of the Presbyterian Church. However, when her son Bobby confides to his older brother he may be gay, life changes for the entire family after Mary learns about his secret. While Bobby's father and siblings slowly come to terms with his homosexuality, Mary believes God can cure him of what she considers his 'sin' and persuades Bobby to pray harder in hopes of...
13) War room
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tony and Elizabeth Jordan have it all; great jobs, a beautiful daughter, and their dream house. But appearances can be deceiving. Their world is actually crumbling under the strain of a failing marriage. While Tony basks in his professional success and flirts with temptation, Elizabeth resigns herself to increasing bitterness. But when Elizabeth meets her newest client, Miss Clara, she is challenged to establish a "war room" and a battle plan of prayer...
14) Burden
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The incredible true story of Michael 'Mike' Burden, an ardent young member of the South Carolina Ku Klux Klan who rose to the rank of Grand Dragon and walked away from all of it with the help of new love and an unlikely ally, the African American religious leader and social activist Reverend David Kennedy.
15) Hypocrites
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Digitally remastered versions.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (65 min.) : sound, color tinted and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hypocrites: Follows parallel stories of an early Christian ascetic and a modern minister. Gabriel is a medieval monk who devotes himself to completing a statue of "Truth, " only to be murdered by a mob when his work turns out to be an image of a naked woman. The contemporary Gabriel is pastor of a large urban congregation for whom religion is a matter of appearances, not beliefs. The hypocrisy of the congregation is exposed by a series of vignettes...
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
In eighteenth-century France a girl is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire. Suzanne's virtue brings disaster to everyone in this faithful adaptation of a bitter attack on religious abuses by the Enlightenment philosopher Denis Diderot.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brother Ambrose is sent on a quest to come up with $5,000 to save his monastery. He travels to Los Angeles where he meets a con man, a prostitute, and a shady televangelist who sees Ambrose as a way to make even more money for his Church of Divine Profit. It's a quest to see if Brother Ambrose will succeed or be led away by the temptations placed in his way.
18) King of Kings
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of the life of Christ, describing certain events that took place between Romans and Jews and setting the political background for the life of Christ, and the personalities and ideas of the New Testament. Built upon a series of narrative parallels and contrasts between Jesus and Barrabas. The film portrays the thief as a rebel leader of the Jewish resistance. Unlike Jesus, who preaches a message of peace, Barrabas advocates violence as a...
19) Pasolini 101
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Special edition collector's set.
Physical Desc
9 Blu-rays (approximately 951 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (95 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
Italiano
Description
Accattone: A graphic slice of Italian street life, this documentary-styled drama recounts a pimp's efforts to leave his past life behind him when he falls in love with a young woman.
Mamma Roma: Having renounced her ignominious past, a former streetwalker reunites with her son, but an extortion scheme endangers her aspirations for a decent bourgeois life.
Love meetings: Director Pasolini traverses Italy in 1963 with camera and microphone interviewing...
Publisher
Pure Flix
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 432 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
God's not dead: A college freshman who is very religious must debate the existence of God with his college professor who believes otherwise in order to earn a passing grade.
God's not dead 2: A teacher finds herself in trouble when she answers a student's question about Jesus.
God's not dead, a light in darkness: Estranged brothers, one a pastor and the other a lawyer, are reunited when Hadleigh University seeks to close the pastor's church which...
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