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Ben-Hur (1959)
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"What's the AFI project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here:http://www.spout.com/blog s/pippin06/archive/2008/3/1/25 756.aspx Ben-Hur is on the following AFI lists:
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"Ever since the great Italian director Sergio Leone rode into town, it’s been clear that the Western is not solely the domain of American filmmakers. Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns boosted Clint Eastwood’s career and forever changed the genre. A new film from Korea, what many are calling a Kimchi Western, may change the genre once again. Kim Ji-Woon’s The Good, the Bad, and the Weird is in many ways an homage to Leone’s The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, but is also an excellent example of the energy and originality emerging in Korean cinema. The Good, the Bad, and the Weird, set in Manchuria in the 1930’s, follows the story of three bandits, all in pursuit of map that leads to an untold amount of treasure. Woo-sung Jung (the Good),
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"Ben-Hur is entertaining on the most basic, primal level of cinema- it shows you something they photographed. The story is obvious, the acting is mostly hammy, the movie has ideas that could be articulated in a Sunday School class. But, as uncool as it may be to like this movie, I must say I did-it looked cool and it help my interest, most the time anyway. Based on the novel by Civil War General Lew Wallace, which I have not read (why would I?) the movie recounts the adventures of Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston) a Jewish prince who is falsey accused with his mother and sister of attempted murder by his ex-gay lover Messala (Stephen Boyd), consul to the Roman govenor of Judea. He is made a galley slave and has numerous adventures while trying to find and free his mother and sister, and also has a few encounters of a religious figure of some renown. Is Charlton Heston hammy? Yes, but that hamminess at least means that he has a strong screen presence and we don't tire of watching ... "
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"I couldn’t believe that news of another Ben-Hur adaptation would appear in the trades so soon after the death of Charlton Heston, but this story indeed appeared in Variety yesterday, detailing plans for a $30 million miniseries to be directed by Christian Duguay (The Art of War) and produced by David Wyler, whose father, William Wyler, directed the 1959 classic starring Heston. And as is common for modern versions of things, the miniseries will be targeted at a younger audience, few of whom are likely watching Turner Classic Movies for its regular showings of the the Oscar-winning 1959 version (hey, kids, it’s in color, at least), despite the existence of this very, very appealing trailer. Wyler intends to skew the lead role younger, placing Ben-Hur in his mid-20s. New version will also downplay the religious aspects of the source material. And yet the minise "
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"Caught the second half of this one on TCM last night (have seen it before, but it has been a loooong time). While it does have a spectacular chariot race sequence, the rest of the movie just leaves me flat. The chariot race takes place about 3/4 of the way through the movie, and then you are left with the 'leper mother and sister' storyline to keep the audiences interest for another hour. The direction and set ups, aside from the grandiose set pieces, are of the garden variety 'biblical epic' style i.e. a lot of side views, as if you are looking at rennaisance paintings (a lot of the set-ups in DeMille's Ten Commandments are cut from the same cloth).Won 'best picture' in a year with rather weak competition (although if the Academy had any guts or imagination, they would have given it to "Some Like It Hot", as well as the Best Actor award to Lemmon, which went to Heston). Heston is his usual scenery chewing self, and Hugh Griffith has some fun with his r ... "
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