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I just finished rereading Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, a book I pick up every couple of years or so. This time I read it because of the new movie version. The awe-inspiring interiors and grounds of Castle Howard in North Yorkshire were used in the 11-part TV adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel Brideshead Revisited.

Simon Jones was born on July 27, 1950 in Charlton Park, Wiltshire, England. He is an actor, known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981), Brideshead. Scoop! The shockingly intimate truth of how Evelyn Waugh's gay Oxford lover became Brideshead Revisited’s Sebastian. A new biography uncovers the reality behind. Mycroft answered 1 day ago Thank you for asking. I believe this will answer your question: “When can I watch ‘Assassin’s Creed’ on HBO?”. Mycroft answered 1 day ago Thank you for asking. I believe this will answer your question: “When can I watch ‘Girls Trip’ on Xfinity On-Demand?”. Mycroft answered 1 day ago Thank you for asking. I believe this will answer your question: “When can I watch ‘Wonder Woman’ on Xfinity On-Demand?”.

Or. How to Buy a Film Library for Christmas. It's regrettable that Catholic educators have yet to regard cinema as an important artistic tradition, one that should be studied along with literature, painting, theater, and music.  The advantage of studying film is its relative youth, having been born only a little over a century ago. Father Merrin, played by Max von Sydow, approaches the Mac. Neill home in Georgetown, from 'The Exorcist' (1.

William Friedkin. P> WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) - As with my list of Catholic novels, I am not following any rigid theory of the "Catholic film" in making these recommendations.  Rather than advance a thesis about what constitutes an "authentic" or "orthodox" Catholic film, I'm hoping that you, the reader, will discover on this list some films that will bring you enjoyment. Perhaps you will find some inspirational or edifying and be moved to a renewed aspiration toward the source of all beauty.  It's regrettable that Catholic educators have yet to regard cinema as an important artistic tradition, one that should be studied along with literature, painting, theater, and music.  The advantage of studying film is its relative youth, having been born only a little over a century ago. The other, more obvious, advantage is that students will have spent literally hundreds of hours watching films of various kinds, as opposed to their time spent with books, or much less in a museum with the masterworks of painting and sculpture. Here's the good news: It's still not too late for the diligent and perhaps obsessive student, with a few years of study, to gain a satisfactory overview of film history. The "Catholic film" is actually a good place to start on such a journey, since both Catholic filmmakers and Catholic subjects have been a part of film's history from the beginning of the "silent" era to the present.  (Remember, there were very few silent films since musical soundtracks were used in films since 1.

And, to add a curious side note, the capacity for "talking" films had been available for several years prior to the 1. Jazz Singer but was considered unnecessary to film as a rapidly developing, and primarily visual, art form.)  You will see below my list of 1.

Best Catholic Films in chronological order.  The only difference between this list and the book list is that I am not insisting that the author be Catholic. My choices are made film qua film, not by any reference to the faith of the producer, director, or writer.

Given that any object of art should be enjoyed and understood in itself, apart from its creator, I regret somewhat not using this criterion in making my list of 1. Best Catholic Novels, but then, what is done, is done.  Thus, I ask the reader not to take me to task if the director of a particular film is a notorious this- or- that, as is definitely the case with a number of the films listed below. And, after all, how do we know under what inspiration, or whose inspiration, an "unbelieving" director brought a film into being.  Unlike the 1. Best Catholic Novels, I have not added links to all my recommendations.  The reader can easily search them out at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or any of the many film vendors on the Internet.  If you don't wish to buy them, you can find out the basic information on any of the films by making use of the International Movie Database at www. Carl Theodore von Dreyer, The Passion of Joan of Arc, 1. Cecil B. De. Mille, King of Kings, 1. Frank Capra, Lady for a Day, 1.

John Ford, The Informer, 1. Frank Borzage, Strange Cargo, 1. Henry King, The Song of Bernadette, 1. John M. Stahl, The Keys of the Kingdom, 1. Leo Mc. Carey, Going My Way, 1.

Leo Mc. Carey, The Bells of St. Mary's, 1. 94. 5. Frank Capra, It's a Wonderful Life, 1.

Robert Bresson, Au Hasard Balthasar, 1. Michael Powell, Black Narcissus, 1.

John Ford, The Fugitive, 1. John Ford, Three Godfathers, 1.

Leo Mc. Carey, Make Way for Tomorrow, 1. Vittorio De Sica, The Bicycle Thieves, 1. Roberto Rossellini, Stromboli, 1. Roberto Rossellini, The Flowers of St. Francis, 1. 95. 0. Gordon Douglas, Come Fill the Cup, 1. Robert Bresson, The Dairy of a Country Priest, 1.

Akira Kurosawa, Ikiru, 1. Vittorio De Sica, Umberto D, 1. Alfred Hitchcock, I Confess, 1. Elia Kazan, On the Waterfront, 1. Raffaello Matarazzo, The White Angel, 1. Carl Theodore von Dreyer, Ordet, 1.

Alfred Hitchcock, The Wrong Man, 1. Luis Bunuel, Nazarin, 1. Fred Zinnemann, The Nun's Story, 1. William Wyler, Ben Hur, 1. Robert Bresson, Pickpocket, 1. Mervyn Le. Roy, The Devil of 4 O'Clock, 1. Richard Fleischer, Barabbas, 1.

Nicholas Ray, King of Kings, 1. Otto Preminger, The Cardinal, 1.

Peter Glenville, Becket, 1. Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Gospel According to St. Matthew, 1. 96. 4. Carol Reed, The Agony and the Ecstasy, 1.

Luis Bunuel, Simon of the Desert, 1. Fred Zinnemann, A Man for All Seasons, 1. Robert Bresson, Mouchette, 1. Michael Anderson, The Shoes of the Fisherman, 1. Franco Zefferelli, Brother Sun, Sister Moon, 1. William Friedkin, The Exorcist, 1.

Anthony Harvey, The Abdication, 1. Joseph Hardy, The Lady's Not for Burning, 1. Franco Zefferelli, Jesus of Nazareth, 1. Robert Bresson, The Devil Probably, 1. Ermanno Olmi, Tree of the Wooden Clogs, 1. John Huston, Wise Blood, 1. Francesco Rosi, Christ Stopped at Eboli, 1.

Hugh Hudson, Chariots of Fire, 1. Charles Sturridge & Michael Lindsay- Hogg, Brideshead Revisited, 1. Ulu Grosbard, True Confessions, 1.

Martin Scorcese, The Age of Innocence, 1. Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, Night of the Shooting Stars, 1. Jerry London, The Scarlet and the Black, 1. Robert Bresson, L'argent, 1.

Norman Stone, Shadowlands, 1. Alain Cavalier, Therese, 1. Roland Jaffe, The Mission, 1.

Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire, 1. Gabriel Axel, Babette's Feast, 1. Rodney Bennett, Monsignor Quixote, 1. Maurice Pialat, Under the Star of Satan, 1. John Huston, The Dead, 1.

Krzysztof Kieslowski, The Decalogue, 1. Krzysztof Kieslowski, A Short Film About Love, 1. Ermanno Olmi, Legend of the Holy Drinker, 1. John Duigan, Romero, 1.

Denys Arcand, Jesus of Montreal, 1. Bruce Beresford, Black Robe, 1. Stijn Coninx, Daens, 1. Nancy Savoca, Household Saints, 1.

Mel Gibson, Braveheart, 1. Liv Ullmann, Kristin Lavransdatter, 1. Lee David Slotoff, Spitfire Grill, 1. Marta Meszaros, The Seventh Room, 1. M. Knight Shyamalan, Wide Awake, 1. Joe Johnston, October Sky, 1.

David Lynch, The Straight Story, 1. Agnieszka Holland, The Third Miracle, 1. Patrice Leconte, The Widow of Saint- Pierre, 2. Jim Sheridan, In America, 2. Alexander Payne, About Schmidt, 2. Bruce Beresford, Evelyn, 2. Denys Arcand, Barbarian Invasions, 2.

Mel Gibson, The Passion of the Christ, 2. Tommy Lee Jones, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, 2. Christian Carion, Joyeux Noel, 2. Pavel Lungin, The Island, 2. Alejandro Monteverde, Bella, 2. Jean- Pierre Dardenne, L'enfant, 2. Martin Provost, Seraphine, 2.

Mark Pellington, Henry Poole is Here, 2. John Patrick Shanley, Doubt, 2. Watch Sniper Megavideo there. Klaus Haro, Letters to Father Jaakob, 2. Xavier Beauvois, Of Gods and Men, 2. Philip Groning, Into the Great Silence, 2. Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life, 2.

Deal W. Hudson is president of the Pennsylvania Catholics Network and former publisher/editor of Crisis Magazine. Dr. Hudson also a partner in the film/TV production company, Good Country Pictures.- -- Copyright 2.

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The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh. It is difficult to encapsulate a book which strives to reach for so much over the course of its pages. I'm sure I will miss some things, but perhaps that's best with a book like this. An epic style classic, I mean. There's always something more to dig out of it.

The writing style is one of the most striking things about the book, let me just put that out there. This is due to the hodgepodge nature of the thing.

The beginning of the book has quite a bit of high Romanticism, of a style more appropriate to the 1. WWII era- to the point where its utter cheesiness seems out of place, which often gives way to Madox Ford type of prose- unobtrusive, mild, wiltingly despairing, Lost Generation feelings.

Towards the end of the book, you get some very modern, intentionally shocking bits and some existentialism. The Romanticism has entirely died. Obviously the choice of styles illustrates the journey of the main character/the main Flyte family through the novel, but I thought it was also an interesting way of encapsulating popular styles of writing that prevailed at the time, particularly in Britain in the interwar era.

One of the major points of the book is to give a reading of the English character, and the styles covered many sides of it, I think. As to the story itself, it is a long metaphor for the death of the old way of life in England. A powerful English Catholic family, the Flytes, slowly crumbles from the inside as member by member by member they are struck down into death or into irrelevancy, doomed to live out their days as shadows of their former brilliance, unable to let go of the past or work with the future.

The narrator, Charles Ryder, is not one of the family, but he is perfectly placed to see each demise as it occurs. It is a superemely heartbreaking piece as we get to see the crushing of each character's hopes and dreams in excruciating detail. I found myself becoming attached to the family, in spite of how awful and distancing that they could be, so well done to Waugh for that one. It does endow one with a sense of helplessness, though, just like the characters, that there is nothing that really could be done for them, prisoners as they are of ideology, centuries of history, societal expectations, family dramas, repressed (or not so repressed) sexuality, rand of course, and most of all, religion. The Catholic yarn of the novel burns perhaps the brightest of all. It is continually present, even under circumstances that one would believe had no call for it.

Which is the point of it. Waugh paints a Catholicism that is everywhere, in everything, allows its followers no freedom, no room to grow and change, nothing entirley of their own, of a Big Brother type God/Church who sees everything. Watch Icebreaker Mojoboxoffice. It is an ideology of no escape, which we see several characters- most notably the tragic Sebastian- struggling against. It is a condemnation of the stranglehold that the Church places on human beings, or being human at all.

It is the Church, in the end, despite all the helping factors of society, the past, the changing- too- fast present, that ultimately destroys the hopes and dreams of all the main characters. Charles, Sebastian, Julia, Lord Marchmain, Lady Marchmain, all of them. They cannot escape it. Not even Charles, who isn't even a Catholic, but is merely in love with this family infused with it.

One of the most constant questions by Charles is, "Do you always talk about religion so much?" or "Why bring God into it?" totally uncomphrending that the family can't get God /out/ of anything. Lady Marchmain stands in for God on Earth, while Sebastian is the hugely flawed Christ character. He's actually something of a cross between Christ and a Drowning Ophelia, but really, in terms of action, is there much difference? Especially since Sebastian is really a Christ of the Jesus in the Garden variety, that is of the "let this cup pass from me," variety. It is said over and over again that he has a calling, that he is holy yet rather heathen, and even he ends up in the embrace of the Church.

A pathetic embrace it may be, yet he ends in serving it despite whatever he might have willed or tried to forget through his drunkenness and wandering. Sebastian is the most heartbreakingly beautiful pieces of the story, though he fades out of view in the second half. He still manages to drive the motion, to keep Charles' reluctant love. In the way all the characters end and the total presence of belief, despite not wanting to, I was reminded very strongly of Graham Greene. He made a lot of similiar points (if perhaps more passionately) in The End of the Affair. The final cry of, "God, just leave me alone!" at the end of that novel is echoed on page after page here. I do think that it is done better and with more finesse by Greene, but I will grant that Waugh had a lot more to deal with and probably had to be a bit more crude on this topic.

I should also probably mention that there is a very strong homosexual element to the story. Charles spends the first half of the book in love with Sebastian, and the second half chasing the shade of him, his sister Julia. It is presented as a platonic love (at least Waugh mentions nothing about them actually having sex) but nonetheless an obsessive one. He does deal in rather surprisingly explicit detail with other gay relationships in the person of Anthony Blanche, Sebastian's German lover, etc. They even visit gay clubs and there is a lot of very open talk about people being gay. I was surprised by that in a novel published almost 5. Catholic element to it.

A lot of people's sexuality is questionable, and the idea of being in love with a person, an idea, more than being sexually attracted to either gender is brought up again and again. Rather progressive for its time, I thought.. I've rather rambled on, haven't I? In sum, very well written, epic, handles a lot more than one would think it could, and I recommend it wholeheartedly.

Though, I won't lie, being an anglophile helps to get you through the slower bits and through the rolling your eyes at the cheesy Romanticism and crazy Ophelia characters. Right. Really done now!