Virgin Spring: Faith and Fury

Birgitta Pettersson and Tor Isedal. Photo: SF Perhaps the most controversial of Ingmar Bergman’s films, The Virgin Spring was banned in Fort Worth, Texas because of its infamous rape scene,…

Spotlight: Breaking a Catholic Curse

Photo: Open Road Films There’s a scene near the end of the film that will get the adrenaline pumping in any journalist. That’s when the Boston Globe printing presses start…

The Passion of the Christ 

One can’t help but admire how Mel Gibson made this ridiculed project into the most talked about movie of the year, and a box office hit to boot. The religious…

Carrie

Bullied teenage girl Carrie White (Chloë Grace Moretz) discovers that she has telekinetic powers, but her mother (Julianne Moore) believes it is the work of the devil. This remake of…

Carrie 

17-year-old Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) is abused both at school and at home by her religious fanatic of a mother (Piper Laurie), but Carrie discovers that she has telekinetic powers.…

Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist 

After Exorcist: The Beginning (2004) became a disappointment, Paul Schrader decided to release his originally rejected version of the same story, one that features the same sets and Stellan Skarsgård…

Seventh Seal: Silence is Divine

Bengt Ekerot. Photo: SF Cineastes everywhere may be in love with Ingmar Bergman's films; he's won all kinds of international awards, including the Golden Palm of Palms at Cannes and…

Exorcist: The Beginning 

In 1949, Lankester Merrin (Stellan Skarsgård), a former Catholic priest, takes part in the excavation of an ancient church in Kenya and finds that Satan is very much present there.…

Tristana: For Whom the Bell Tolls

Catherine Deneuve. Photo: Época Films When Luis Buñuel wanted to turn Benito Pérez Galdós's novel "Tristana" into a movie in 1962, his and Julio Alejandro's script was rejected. The same…