Movies about Jesus Christ

[lester1/2jr]

1. The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) - I remember liking this 4 plus hour epic back in the day, not sure how it's aged though.

2. Pasolini's The Gospel According To St Matthew (1964) - I saw a shortened version that Tubi carries not the longer Criterion collection one. Matthew is the Gospel with all the sayings and this film has no additional dialogue really besides of quotes directly from the book. Definitely my favorite of these 3.

3. The Passion of the Christ (2004) - Has anyone ever made a movie featuring the scene where Jesus goes to preach in Galilee and they're all like "this guy? The Messiah? I know his Mom". I guess it's sort of besides the point. Anyway everyone knows the Mel Gibson helmed version.

Any others of note?

[Rev. Powell]

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR - I like this one, although the vocal performances overall aren't as good as the original album.

[M.10rda]

Agreed on JCS.

THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST is pretty good. Harvey Keitel is a great Judas and David Bowie is Pontius Pilate. What else need be said?

There's also a TERRIFIC play by Stephen Adly Guirgis called "The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot". One of my favorite plays, actually. It premiered on Broadway about 20 years ago directed by Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Sam Rockwell was Judas, John Ortiz was Jesus, Stephen McKinley Henderson was Pilate, and Eric Bogosian was Satan. Jeffrey Demunn and some other familiar faces were in it, too. Recommended reading!

[Rev. Powell]

Shouldn't have forgotten about LAST TEMPTATION, definitely one of the best Jesus movies, and one I own on Blu-ray.