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The Last Temptation of Christ

Criterion Collection

( Catalog Number CC1503L )
(1.85:1) (4 Sides) (CLV+CAV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
New digital transfer
Productions stills
Audio commentary by director Martin Scorsese, actor Willem Dafoe, screenwriters Paul Schrader and Jay Cocks
Location production footage and a video interview with composer Peter Gabriel
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The Last Temptation of Christ
1988 - 164 min. - Color
Genre: Drama
Rated R
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
This striking vision from the mind of director Martin Scorsese offers an allegorical interpretation of the last days of Jesus Christ, based on the book by Nikos Kazantzakis. Based strictly on Kazantzakis's book, the film has a very different focus than past portraits of the "Messiah." This Jesus (Willem Defoe) is a man wracked with doubt over his position among his followers and fear of the role God has chosen for him, as well as the pain that must accompany it. He is unsure whether the messages he receives come from God or Satan, and he is tempted by a mortal life filled with earthly possessions and sensual love, resulting in a controversial, though genuinely sympathetic, account of Christianity's most revered figure.

Scorsese establishes a dreamlike mood by combining Michael Ballhaus

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Willem Dafoe plays Jesus Christ in this extraordinarily controversial adaptation of Nikos Kazantzaki's novel. The film depicts a sometimes reluctant, self-doubting Jesus, gradually coming to accept His divinity and the inexorability of His ultimate fate. The much-maligned sex scene with Mary Magdalene (Barbara Hershey) occurs as an hallucination experienced by Jesus as he suffers on the cross. This particular sequence was what infuriated the film's most rabid critics, but in fact it is just one of many iconoclastic musings to be found in the film and its source novel. Equally volatile are the intimations that, as a carpenter, Jesus indifferently shaped the crucifixes for other condemned prisoners long before his own fate was sealed, and that Judas (Harvey Keitel) was literally manipulated into betrayal by a Christ whose preoccuption with his own destiny compelled him to "use" others. None of these departures from the normal interpretation of the scriptures are offered as any more than theory; as such, it was accepted as food for thought by the more open-minded clerics and Biblical scholars who recommended the film. --- Hal Erickson

Canceled in 1983, finally made in 1987, and embroiled in controversy, Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis' The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) is the ultimate labor of love and a singularly thought-provoking take on the life of Jesus. Though fundamentalists loudly protested a brief scene featuring Willem Dafoe's Christ procreating with Barbara Hershey's Mary Magdalene, the real "offense" was portraying Jesus as fully human as well as fully divine, and thus subject to doubts, fears, and temptation via a deceptively angelic girl offering a vision of normal life. Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader's aim to think through the meaning of Christ's dual nature and the Passion, however, becomes a sincere affirmation of faith through its very humanism and, yes, humor. Shot on a minimal budget in Morocco, Scorsese's rough, stripped-down style avoids Hollywood biblical gloss and turns Jesus and his Apostles into accessible, rough-accented human beings, paradoxically making Jesus' acceptance of his fate all the more effective (though Harvey Keitel's Brooklynite Judas provoked some derision). Released amid vociferous criticism (from fundamentalist Christians who refused to actually see it), The Last Temptation of Christ earned good notices and Scorsese an Oscar nomination for Best Director. Certain video chains, however, won't stock it. --- Lucia Bozzola

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Cast for The Last Temptation of Christ

Willem Dafoe - Jesus Christ
Harvey Keitel - Judas Iscariot
Barbara Hershey - Mary Magdalene
Harry Dean Stanton - Paul
Harry Dean Stanton - Saul
David Bowie - Pontius Pilate
Verna Bloom - Mary, Mother of Jesus
Andre Gregory - John the Baptist
Juliette Caton - Girl Angel
Roberts Blossom - Aged Master
Irvin Kershner - Zebedee
Gary Basaraba - Andrew, Apostle
Victor Argo - Peter, Apostle
Michael Been - John, Apostle
Paul Herman - Phillip, Apostle
John Lurie - James, Apostle
Leo Burmeister - Nathaniel, Apostle
Alan Rosenberg - Thomas, Apostle
Tomas Arana - Lazarus
Nehemiah Persoff - Rabbi
Barry Miller - Jeroboam
Doris Von Thury - Woman with Mary, Mother of Jesus
Robert Spafford - Man at Wedding
Ahmed Nacir - Other Apostle
Del Russell - Money Changer
Mokhtar Salouf - Other Apostle
Steven Shill - Centurion
Dale Wyatt
Russell Case - Person at Sermon
Randy Danson - Mary, Sister of Lazarus
Illeana Douglas
Mahamed Ait Fdil Ahmed - Other Apostle
Penny Brown
Peter Berling - Beggar
Leo Marks - Devil [Voice]
Donna Marie - Person at Sermon
Domenico Fiore
Peggy Gormley - Martha, Sister of Lazarus
Donald Hodson - Saducee
Paul Greco - Zealot

Crew for The Last Temptation of Christ

Martin Scorsese - Director
Barbara de Fina - Producer
Harry Ufland - Producer / Executive Producer
Nikos Kazantzakis - Book Author
Paul Schrader - Screenwriter
Michael Ballhaus - Cinematographer
Peter Gabriel - Composer (Music Score)
Thelma Schoonmaker - Editor
John Beard - Production Designer
Andrew Sanders - Production Designer / Art Director
Giorgio Desideri - Set Designer
Jean-Pierre Delifer - Costume Designer
Lahcen Zinoune - Choreography
Manilo Rocchetti - Makeup
Iginio Fiorentini - Special Effects
Gino Galliano - Special Effects
Joseph P. Reidy - First Assistant Director
Franco Salamon - Stunts
Cis Corman - Casting

Awards for The Last Temptation of Christ

Best Director (nom) Martin Scorsese 1988 Academy
Filmcritica (win) Martin Scorsese 1988 Venice Film Festival
Best Original Score (nom) Peter Gabriel 1989 Golden Globe
Best Supporting Actress (nom) Barbara Hershey 1989 Golden Globe

Feature Details

Title: The Last Temptation of Christ
Feature Release Date: 1988
Genre: Drama
Rating: R
Color: Color
Runtime: 164 Minutes
Chapters: 53
Picture: Letterboxed
Ratio: 1.85:1
Playback Format: CLV+CAV

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Technical Details

LD Release Date: 18 Feb 1998
Catalog Number: CC1503L
UPC: 715515008839
ISBN: 1-55940-846-4
Manufacturer: Kuraray
Collection: Criterion Collection
Publisher: Criterion

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 4
Cover: Gatefold Jacket
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: CC1503L
Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
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Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey and David Bowie in... Martin Scorsese's...

The Last Temptation of Christ

Criterion Collection

( Catalog Number CC1503L )
(1.85:1) (4 Sides) (CLV+CAV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
New digital transfer
Productions stills
Audio commentary by director Martin Scorsese, actor Willem Dafoe, screenwriters Paul Schrader and Jay Cocks
Location production footage and a video interview with composer Peter Gabriel
See the History of Criterion LaserDiscs at DaDon's...

The Last Temptation of Christ
1988 - 164 min. - Color
Genre: Drama
Rated R
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
This striking vision from the mind of director Martin Scorsese offers an allegorical interpretation of the last days of Jesus Christ, based on the book by Nikos Kazantzakis. Based strictly on Kazantzakis's book, the film has a very different focus than past portraits of the "Messiah." This Jesus (Willem Defoe) is a man wracked with doubt over his position among his followers and fear of the role God has chosen for him, as well as the pain that must accompany it. He is unsure whether the messages he receives come from God or Satan, and he is tempted by a mortal life filled with earthly possessions and sensual love, resulting in a controversial, though genuinely sympathetic, account of Christianity's most revered figure.

Scorsese establishes a dreamlike mood by combining Michael Ballhaus

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Willem Dafoe plays Jesus Christ in this extraordinarily controversial adaptation of Nikos Kazantzaki's novel. The film depicts a sometimes reluctant, self-doubting Jesus, gradually coming to accept His divinity and the inexorability of His ultimate fate. The much-maligned sex scene with Mary Magdalene (Barbara Hershey) occurs as an hallucination experienced by Jesus as he suffers on the cross. This particular sequence was what infuriated the film's most rabid critics, but in fact it is just one of many iconoclastic musings to be found in the film and its source novel. Equally volatile are the intimations that, as a carpenter, Jesus indifferently shaped the crucifixes for other condemned prisoners long before his own fate was sealed, and that Judas (Harvey Keitel) was literally manipulated into betrayal by a Christ whose preoccuption with his own destiny compelled him to "use" others. None of these departures from the normal interpretation of the scriptures are offered as any more than theory; as such, it was accepted as food for thought by the more open-minded clerics and Biblical scholars who recommended the film. --- Hal Erickson

Canceled in 1983, finally made in 1987, and embroiled in controversy, Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis' The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) is the ultimate labor of love and a singularly thought-provoking take on the life of Jesus. Though fundamentalists loudly protested a brief scene featuring Willem Dafoe's Christ procreating with Barbara Hershey's Mary Magdalene, the real "offense" was portraying Jesus as fully human as well as fully divine, and thus subject to doubts, fears, and temptation via a deceptively angelic girl offering a vision of normal life. Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader's aim to think through the meaning of Christ's dual nature and the Passion, however, becomes a sincere affirmation of faith through its very humanism and, yes, humor. Shot on a minimal budget in Morocco, Scorsese's rough, stripped-down style avoids Hollywood biblical gloss and turns Jesus and his Apostles into accessible, rough-accented human beings, paradoxically making Jesus' acceptance of his fate all the more effective (though Harvey Keitel's Brooklynite Judas provoked some derision). Released amid vociferous criticism (from fundamentalist Christians who refused to actually see it), The Last Temptation of Christ earned good notices and Scorsese an Oscar nomination for Best Director. Certain video chains, however, won't stock it. --- Lucia Bozzola

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Cast for The Last Temptation of Christ

Willem Dafoe - Jesus Christ
Harvey Keitel - Judas Iscariot
Barbara Hershey - Mary Magdalene
Harry Dean Stanton - Paul
Harry Dean Stanton - Saul
David Bowie - Pontius Pilate
Verna Bloom - Mary, Mother of Jesus
Andre Gregory - John the Baptist
Juliette Caton - Girl Angel
Roberts Blossom - Aged Master
Irvin Kershner - Zebedee
Gary Basaraba - Andrew, Apostle
Victor Argo - Peter, Apostle
Michael Been - John, Apostle
Paul Herman - Phillip, Apostle
John Lurie - James, Apostle
Leo Burmeister - Nathaniel, Apostle
Alan Rosenberg - Thomas, Apostle
Tomas Arana - Lazarus
Nehemiah Persoff - Rabbi
Barry Miller - Jeroboam
Doris Von Thury - Woman with Mary, Mother of Jesus
Robert Spafford - Man at Wedding
Ahmed Nacir - Other Apostle
Del Russell - Money Changer
Mokhtar Salouf - Other Apostle
Steven Shill - Centurion
Dale Wyatt
Russell Case - Person at Sermon
Randy Danson - Mary, Sister of Lazarus
Illeana Douglas
Mahamed Ait Fdil Ahmed - Other Apostle
Penny Brown
Peter Berling - Beggar
Leo Marks - Devil [Voice]
Donna Marie - Person at Sermon
Domenico Fiore
Peggy Gormley - Martha, Sister of Lazarus
Donald Hodson - Saducee
Paul Greco - Zealot

Crew for The Last Temptation of Christ

Martin Scorsese - Director
Barbara de Fina - Producer
Harry Ufland - Producer / Executive Producer
Nikos Kazantzakis - Book Author
Paul Schrader - Screenwriter
Michael Ballhaus - Cinematographer
Peter Gabriel - Composer (Music Score)
Thelma Schoonmaker - Editor
John Beard - Production Designer
Andrew Sanders - Production Designer / Art Director
Giorgio Desideri - Set Designer
Jean-Pierre Delifer - Costume Designer
Lahcen Zinoune - Choreography
Manilo Rocchetti - Makeup
Iginio Fiorentini - Special Effects
Gino Galliano - Special Effects
Joseph P. Reidy - First Assistant Director
Franco Salamon - Stunts
Cis Corman - Casting

Awards for The Last Temptation of Christ

Best Director (nom) Martin Scorsese 1988 Academy
Filmcritica (win) Martin Scorsese 1988 Venice Film Festival
Best Original Score (nom) Peter Gabriel 1989 Golden Globe
Best Supporting Actress (nom) Barbara Hershey 1989 Golden Globe

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