'The Last Temptation of Christ,' 'The Gospel According to St. Matthew' and 'Life of Brian' also make this critic's list of recommendations.
This will be, for many of us, a week of solemn reflection as well as quiet gratitude. And also, yes, a week for movies, always an ideal companion in trying times. The pictures listed below will serve, I hope, as a useful guide, and I recommend them wholeheartedly regardless of a viewer’s faith background or lack thereof.Some Passover perennials have been included despite their obviousness; other titles may seem more obscurely related to the events and observances at hand.
Thirty years separate Woody Allen’s darkly brooding comedy-drama from Josh and Benny Safdie’s ferociously amped. Both are intricately plotted stories about Jewish Manhattanites in desperate straits, trying to hold onto their families and outrun romantic and financial disasters of their own making. And both notably include scenes at a Passover Seder that position their characters’ sins and shenanigans in a haunting new light.
Adrianna Biedrzyńska in “Dekalog IV,” the fourth chapter of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s series loosely inspired by the Ten Commandments.It would take you a little more than 13 hours to watch Cecil B. DeMille’s barnstorming Exodus epic and Krzysztof Kieslowski’s monumental Ten Commandments-inspired omnibus back-to-back, and it would be worth every minute.
Jack Albertson, left, Peter Ostrum and Gene Wilder in the movie “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.”Shelter-at-home orders have made it more difficult to get your Peeps, Cadbury Creme Eggs and Russell Stover Milk Chocolate Easter Bunnies these days. Embrace your inner Augustus Gloop instead: Stay home, throw on this Gene Wilder classic and lick the screen to your heart’s content. Accept no substitutes.
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