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The Other Boleyn Girl
Details: 2008, UK, cert 12A, 115 mins, Dir: Justin Chadwick
UK release: 07 March 2008With: Eric Bana, Jim Sturgess, Kristin Scott Thomas, Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson
Summary: Anne (Natalie Portman) and Mary (Scarlet Johansson Boleyn compete for the affections of the handsome and libido-driven King Henry VIII (Eric Bana).
Going to see this film soon ……
As Jesus is taken from the cross and buried, his disciples cower in hiding. Caiaphas, fearful that the body will be stolen, orders the tomb to be guarded. But when Mary Magdalene discovers it empty, a chain of events is about to begin that will transform the lives of the disciples and reverberate throughout the world for the next two thousand years.
I watched the last episode of the BBC production, The Passion, tonight. I found it incredibly moving. I am moved by the reality of Christ. God’s Son. Here. Dying for our sins. Rising from the dead and promising to be with us always.
This BBC series started slowly but depicted the trial, crucifixion and resurrection imaginatively and faithfully. As a believer I was challenged. I realised that those who followed Jesus as he preached in Galilee and Judea put their lives and reputations at risk. They also had far less to convince them that he was The Messiah than I do. No New Testament, no resurrection, no Holy Spirit – just a man who claimed he was God’s only Son who said and did incredible things. Their doubt was tangible, just like mine.
BBC – Religion – Programmes: Miracle on the Estate
Miracle on the Estate
For Good Friday, the residents of Harpurhey in North Manchester – once described as the worst place to live in Britain – join forces with a poet, a composer and a director to see if they can produce their very own mediaeval mystery play, based on the story of the Flood. In so doing they uncover a deep-rooted sense of community, untapped talent and breathe 21st century life into an ancient story of sacrifice and salvation.
It’s Good Friday. A special day for all Christians when we remember the death of Jesus on the cross. This morning we watched a truly inspirational BBC programme about the making of a community film based on the Mystery Play Noah’s Flood. The film is on the BBC Religion Website. I’ve not watched the film yet – but I recommend watching the TV programme Miracle on the Estate first.
I’ve now watched the The Harpurhey Mystery Play and it matches the promises made in the TV programme. It is truly inspiring when people who were unsure of their talents discover them and work together to create a play like this one.
I am in Acton, training curators at the London Transport Museum to run Digital Storytelling Workshops. It involves taking them through a workshop to tell their own stories using personal narrative and photos from their own albums.
Today was a storycircle. That’s how they identify their story. At this stage it doesn’t have to be linked to transport but a surprising number are. A journey across the US by Greyhound, a car in search of purple fluffy dice (yes really), the driving instructors wart (honest) – all have transport links. There’s a story about blue shoes and another about a fondly remembered grandmother whose failing memory still held on to the many verses of the Lady of Shalott.
In the next few days these stories will take on a life of their own as they are turned into short TV films using digital technology – digital stories. In the process everyone will start to understand the skills that inspire others to tell their stories in the context of the transport museum.
Inspire is the key word. Technical skills are simple to master; inspiration is vital if people who may have written nothing more than a wishlist since leaving school are to gain the confidence forge their story into a script.
I love this work – and the stories I’m told in the workshops. What story would you tell? No more that 300 words.
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Blasphemy is dead Long live blasphemy | spiked
England’s dusty, archaic and unpopular blasphemy laws look set to be abolished, but Ofcom and others are keeping their censorious spirit alive.
I think Brenden O’Neill has his wires crossed. Companies go to great lengths to protect their brands, challenging what sometimes appear to be only small infringements of the use of their precious “brand properties”. Logos, straplines, positioning statements etc. Just think of the businesses challenged for using the “R Us” gimmick. When these huge conglomerates win their case and force offenders to change the signs on the side of their van or worse rebrand their entire business no one cries “CENSORSHIP” or says that it’s an affront to free speech.
And yet, when Christians protest about the misuse of a phrase or series of words that have been hijacked by the media world you would think the devil himself had stepped up to witness box and won the day. The opposite is of course true. We have ceased the worship of God preferring to honour mammon.
If the phrase “Thy will be done” had not appeared in The Lord’s Prayer the offending splash for GHD Hair Straighteners would have been pointless. If Christ had never been crucified on a cross the symbol in the advert would have been meaningless. The ASA was right to uphold the complaint from the church.
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