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...Jesus film with violence is bound to roil some people. But the film's carnage is emetic, not exploitative. The crowning with thorns, the scourging at the pillar, the agonized trudge up Calvary show what Jesus suffered and why; and James Caviezel's spiky, ferocious, nearly heroic performance is a perfect servant to the role. This is not a movie for all believers - or for all moviegoers. But it is, nonetheless, a believer's movie. Gibson believes in the power of Jesus' message. He believes in the power of cinema to rethink traditions, to make Jesus live in a skeptical...
...centuries of Gospel tradition. Anyway, in the Pasolini film, with Italians chasing Italians, the curse seems one not of race or religion but of clan. Besides, Pasolini, a poet before he was a filmmaker, would be unlikely to excise a controversial line from a text he felt bound to honor...
...matter - X-rays of souls in stress. His films are also, thematically, the same film. In "Mean Streets" and "Raging Bull," "The King of Comedy" and "The Color of Money," "Goodfellas" and "Gangs of New York," he has made his own kind of buddy movie. Two men are bound by love or hate; one must betray the other and thereby help certify his mission...
Jean M. Humez and Kate Clifford Larson will be discussing their new books: Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories and Bound for the Promised Land Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. These two biographies of Harriet Tubman finally allow us to see the human being behind the self-liberated Underground Railroad American heroine. Larson has spent years researching the life and times of Harriet Tubman. Humez is Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. Free. 3 p.m. Harvard Book Store...
Across the hall from Nesson, in the computer-crowded office of Zittrain, a former student of Nesson’s, sits a blue hard-bound cover with an imposing title: Internet Law. Zittrain’s name is below the title, as are Nesson’s and a handful of other legal scholars’—but that’s all they have. The pages between the covers are blank...