I think the best screen version of the Nativity story was actually depicted in Jesus of Nazareth…

…either are those films (surprisingly few of them) that actually address the birth of Christ itself. From La Vie et Passion du Christ (1903) — at 44 minutes, a contender for the distinction of the first-ever feature film in the modern sense — to the four-hour The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), from the wildly irreverent Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979) to the rather more respectful The Nativity Story (2006), they appear to be disqualified by the absence of tinsel and carols. (On the small screen, meanwhile, Gian Carlo Menotti’s delightful Amahl and the Night Visitors — wr…
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I think the best screen version of the Nativity story was actually depicted in Jesus of Nazareth (in episode 1). But that's TV so technically doesn't count. :)
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Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com
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