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Post by koskiewicz on Dec 17, 2017 16:40:05 GMT
Emile Meyer in "Paths of Glory"
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Post by delon on Mar 21, 2018 22:05:42 GMT
Leon Morin, pretre (1961)
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Post by vegalyra on Mar 22, 2018 13:02:38 GMT
Matewan is excellent, although the movie is not about ministers. Danny, however, is the young teenaged preacher who in a pivotal scene preaches a message to the folks of the town while the Baldwin coal company agents are in the church. The message is basically in code, since it's not at all what is in the Bible but Danny knows those company agents don't know their Bible and the townsfolk do.
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Post by Nalkarj on Mar 22, 2018 19:04:28 GMT
It’s certainly not about him, but I can’t help throwing in Roddy McDowall’s very amusing vicar Mr. Rowan Jelk, who wanted to marry Miss Price in one of my childhood favorites, Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Mar 22, 2018 21:31:58 GMT
Matka Joanna od Aniołów , Mother Joan of the Angels (1961) from Polish director Jerzy KawalerowiczThis classic film masterpiece is loosely based on the real life outbreak of mass hysteria in the French town of Loudun in 1634 that occurred when a convent of Ursuline nuns, led by Sister Jeanne of the Angels, became obsessed with a handsome, womanising priest, Urbain Grandier... The story here takes place in a seventeenth century Polish convent. Priest, Father Józef Suryn (Mieczyslaw Voit), has been sent to the investigate an unusaual case of demonic possession at the remote convent. The previous local priest, Father Garniec, was burnt at the stake for sexually tempting the nuns. Father Suryn a devout and deeply spiritual man is challenged by the strange goings on, he becomes the object of desire of the Mother Superior...
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 22, 2018 22:15:31 GMT
Burgess returned to the cloth two decades later as a priest being pushed out of the way again in TRUE CONFESSIONS. True Confessions gets little love, it seems. I think it's quite good.
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Post by koskiewicz on Mar 22, 2018 22:19:08 GMT
Pale Rider w/Clint Eastwood
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 22, 2018 22:26:57 GMT
The Reverend Captain Samuel Johnson Clayton (The Searchers). Praise the Lord and pass the .45 ammo.
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 22, 2018 22:59:13 GMT
Burgess returned to the cloth two decades later as a priest being pushed out of the way again in TRUE CONFESSIONS. True Confessions gets little love, it seems. I think it's quite good. I'm a big fan of TRUE CONFESSIONS as well, Bravo.
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 13, 2018 16:35:38 GMT
A Serious Man has three rabbis. Here is the oldest and most learned one:
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Post by OldAussie on Jun 13, 2018 20:57:11 GMT
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Post by london777 on Jun 14, 2018 0:23:27 GMT
Ha! When I saw this title I was already trying to summon up movies about politicians who head government departments, which is the prime meaning of "minister" in England. (Perhaps we can do those later? .) Funnily enough, I have recently just had this conversation with an American friend who runs his own church in Indiana. He has had no theological training. It seems that in the US any well-meaning guy like my friend, or any psychopath or confidence trickster can set up as a "minister". The minister in The King (2005) dir: James Marsh, played by William Hurt, combines all three of those qualifications. Not a great movie, but the character arc described by the hero, played by Gael García Bernal, is something else! (Reminded me of Angel Heart - 1987, but in that respect only) An even wackier church appears in Red State (2011) dir: Kevin Smith. This film also accelerates to a almost surrealistic ending, but not as successfully. Great acting by Michael Parks, though. And we must not forget our old friend Harry Powell, in The Night of the Hunter (1955) dir: Charles Laughton: Or the eponymous Elmer Gantry (1960) dir: Richard Brooks:
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Post by london777 on Jun 14, 2018 0:38:26 GMT
Leviathan (2014) dir: Andrey Zvyagintsev is one of the best movies released in this millennium. It is a bit like a Film Noir in that we are not shown who is the Big Bad pulling the strings of the ostensible Bad until the very end. It is the priest. I could not find a still of him.
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Post by london777 on Jun 14, 2018 0:53:40 GMT
Not all ministers are evil. In the The Deadliest Sin (1955) dir: Ken Hughes, the priest is just a bloody old fool, putting his own and others' lives at risk because of his obstinate adherence to his vow not to reveal secrets of the confessional. He is played by John Welsh, who more usually played the other sort of minister (see my post above). The villain was played very woodenly by Sidney Chaplin because they needed someone with a transatlantic accent. Did he ever make a decent movie? Main attraction for me was Audrey Dalton, who made the most of her modest part and looked extraordinarily like Jean Simmons. (There is no higher praise from me).
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Post by london777 on Jun 14, 2018 1:11:37 GMT
Ray Stevenson grew up in a military family and usually plays soldiers (whether UK, US, Irish or Ancient Roman), gangsters or other thugs, and nowadays comic book characters. At the start of his career he played the tragic Clym Yeobright in Hardy's The Return of the Native (UK TV movie 1994) dir: Jack Gold opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones and Clive Owen before the Hollywood sausage machine had processed them into "stars". Not a faultless movie, but Hardy's stories are so compelling it is one of my "comfort" movies and CZ-J is perfect as the unwitting femme fatale. Yeobright starts the story as a bookish university graduate with CZ-J is his arms (as shown) and ends up as a blind preacher wandering the moors. Cathartic, or what? (Wish I could afford to dress like that.)
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Post by london777 on Jun 14, 2018 1:23:17 GMT
Matka Joanna od Aniołów , Mother Joan of the Angels (1961) from Polish director Jerzy KawalerowiczThis classic film masterpiece is loosely based on the real life outbreak of mass hysteria in the French town of Loudun in 1634 that occurred when a convent of Ursuline nuns, led by Sister Jeanne of the Angels, became obsessed with a handsome, womanising priest, Urbain Grandier... Ken Russell returned to the original story in his The Devils (1971):
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Post by london777 on Jun 14, 2018 1:32:34 GMT
Do we count monks? Because Andrei Rublev (1966) dir: Andrei Tarkovsky is an all-time classic. Anyway, even if you disqualify the protagonist, there are plenty of priests in the movie:
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jun 14, 2018 1:41:38 GMT
THE BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW 1971 -- in this one Anthony Ainley as Reverend Fallowfield is actually a good guy wrongfully accused of molesting a student--he also likes snakes and rabbits.
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Post by OldAussie on Jun 14, 2018 1:56:56 GMT
Saw this about 50 years ago, remember liking it but nothing else. And a couple of fakes ......
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 14, 2018 3:32:08 GMT
Wise Blood – Brad Dourif plays a self-proclaimed minister in the Church of Truth Without Christ.
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