http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/christ-recrucified/ david cairns Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:43:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/christ-recrucified/#comment-50325 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 22:00:39 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=20165#comment-50325 Judy, I agree about Desert of the Tartars, a remarkable anti-epic or counter-epic, which still manages to look totally epic. I might have chosen to write about that one this week, but I’d never seen Black Jesus and wanted to…

]]> http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/christ-recrucified/#comment-50314 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:02:43 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=20165#comment-50314 You’re welcome Jim.

]]> http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/christ-recrucified/#comment-50297 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:42:57 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=20165#comment-50297 I saw Black Jesus during the Filmhouse’s Zurlini season which folllowed the Edinburgh Film Festival’s, and was impressed by it, but not as much as I was by Desert of the Tartars, which I thought a magnificent film, beautifully shot in a fantastic location (the city of Bam in Iran, since destroyed in an earthquake) and dealing with issues of futility, tedium, and bureaucracy – things that anyone who’s ever had a job can readily identify with. It is, in the words of one reviewer, Waiting for Godot meets Lawrence of Arabia.

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