Christian Hamaker of www.artsandfaith.com has sent along a copy of a recent Top 100 List of Spiritually Significant Films. Carl Dreyer‘s Ordet at #1 for the second year in a row, and Pier Paolo Pasolini‘s The Gospel According to St. Matthew, one of my favorites, ranking at #4. Martin Scorcese‘s The Last Temptation fo Christ, which Christian claims to “loathe,” is at # 63. A film called Balthazar is ranked at #11 — I presume they’re referring to Robert Bresson‘s Au Hasard Balthazar, a film about a saintly donkey that’s obviously a Christian-spiritual parable.
