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The Last Temptation of Christ is a 1988 epic religious drama film directed by Martin Scorsese. Written by Paul Schrader with uncredited rewrites from Scorsese and Jay Cocks, it is an adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis ' controversial 1955 novel of the same name. The film, starring Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey, Andre Gregory, Harry ...
Aug 12, 1988 · The Last Temptation of Christ: Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Paul Greco, Steve Shill. The life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross.
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- 1988-08-12
Note: This is a shortened version of an essay written for my new book, Scorsese by Ebert. Reading my 1988 review of “The Last Temptation of Christ,” I find it is more concerned with theology than cinema. It must have driven Martin Scorsese crazy to read reviews of “The Last Temptation of Christ” in which critics appointed themselves arbiters of the manhood or godliness of Jesus Christ ...
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The Last Temptation of Christ. Jesus (Willem Dafoe), a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas ...
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- Willem Dafoe
Jesus feels guilty about his inability to correspond to the adult love of his childhood friend, Mary Magdalene, who in her dejection has become a prostitute. He asks Mary to forgive him. Mary asks Jesus to stay with her, which Jesus is tempted to do, but he rejects the temptation and heads for a monastic community.
The Last Temptation of Christ, by Martin Scorsese, is a towering achievement. Though it initially engendered enormous controversy, the film can now be viewed as the remarkable, profoundly personal work of faith that it is. This fifteen-year labor of love, an adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis’s landmark novel that imagines an alternate fate for Jesus Christ, features outstanding performances by ...
The Last Temptation of Christ. Director Martin Scorsese's stellar film adaptation of the controversial novel: Jesus questions the nature of his higher calling while imagining his life as an ordinary man. The price before discount is the median price for the last 90 days. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to ...
