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The Pope Makes Like Ebert
That's a "Pope Approval" rating. And, according to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, only 45 films (dubbed "the Pope's Oscars") have been condoned by the Vatican as suitable for the faithful.
The pontiff's picks aren't the G-rated family fare you'd expect. Topping the list is Stephen Spielberg's Holocaust epic Schindler's List. Another Holocaust flick, Roberto Benigni's comedy Life Is Beautiful (which Pope John Paul II screened at the Vatican recently) charted at No. 3.
Of course, several religious-themed flicks cracked the Top Ten. Pier Paolo Pasolini's Jesus-as-Marxist-revolutionary, documenary-style The Gospel According to St. Matthew (No. 2), Franco Zeffirelli's 375-minute Jesus of Nazareth (No. 5), Charlton Heston's Christians-vs.-Romans epic Ben-Hur (No. 6) and the pro-Catholic, anti-King Henry VIII Oscar-winner A Man For All Seasons (No. 7) all made the cut.
The 78-year-old pope, a former actor and playwright and a big movie buff (the Vatican has a collection of 6,000 films, and the pontiff screens new films in their native tongues before their public release), also made some curious selections.
Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, a film based in part on the secular writings of Friedrich "God is Dead" Nietzsche, landed at No. 8. Charlie Chaplin's swan song, Modern Times, one of the few comedies to make the list, came in fourth. Frederico Fellini's autobiographical 8 1/2, about a director trying to find inspiration, was ninth. And Luchino Visconti's The Leopard, a film about Italian nationals struggling with nobles in Sicily, rounded out the Top 10n.
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