Bible Films Podcast

This month I'm looking at Pier Paolo Pasolini's classic film Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo (The Gospel According to St. Matthew), which is probably the film that most critics consider the best of all Jesus films.

(Written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini)(Cast - Enrique Irazoqui...Christ; Margherita Caruso...Mary (younger); Susanna Pasolini...Mary (older); Marcello Morante...Joseph; Mario Socrate...John the Baptist; Settimio Di Porto...Peter; Alfonso Gatto...Andrew; Luigi Barbini...James; Giacomo Morante...John; Giorgio Agamben...Philip; Guido Cerretani...Bartholomew; Rosario Migale...Thomas; Ferruccio Nuzzo...Matthew; Marcello Galdini...James son of Alphus; Elio Spaziani...Thaddeus; Enzo Siciliano...Simon; Otello Sestili...Jude; Rodolfo Wilcock...Caiphus; Alessandro Clerici...Pontius Pilate; Amerigo Bevilacqua...Herod I; Francesco Leonetti...Herod II; Franca Cupane...Herodiade; Paola Tedesco...Salome; Rossana Di Rocco...Angel of the Lord; Renato Terra...Posessed one; Eliseo Boschi...Joseph of Arimathea; Natalia Ginzburg...Mary of Bethania;

In this opening podcast I look at Franco Zeffirelli's 1977 TV film Jesus of Nazareth. For many people this is the greatest version of Jesus's life ever made, others however, see some flaws...

(Cast: Robert Powell, Anne Bancroft, Ernest Borgnine, James Farentino, James Earl Jones, James Mason, Ian McShane, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Quinn, Ralph Richardson, Rod Steiger, Peter Ustinov, Michael York, Olivia Hussey, Ian Holm)(Directed by Franco Zeffirell; (Written by Anthony Burgess, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Franco Zeffirelli)