Apr
12
Children of Joseph is a 35-minute DVD produced by the Joseph Smith and Emma Hale Smith Historical Society. It was created in 2011 by many of the same team from Emma Smith: My Story, and is available through Netflix and Amazon, as well as for purchase through the Historical Society’s website. When Joseph Smith Jr. was …
Aug
13
Director Christian Vuissa’s (One Good Man, The Errand of Angels) latest directorial effort Joseph Smith — Volume 1: Plates of Gold has started screening in select theaters around the country and will arrive in Utah theaters on September 2nd. The official site will have details as to theater location and release dates for states around …
Feb
25
[Viewed at the LDS Film Festival on January 29th, 2011. Eventual theater or DVD release date unknown. Screened version was complete enough to show, but there's a strong possibility that more post-production and editing will be done pending an official release. If there are any significant changes in any publicly released version compared to this …
Jan
30
Brief reports from Friday / Saturday from the 2011 LDS Film Festival:
Jun
06
Attempting to film a nine-volume series of books is, to say the least, an ambitious endeavor. Even with Hollywood’s constant fascination with creating sequels, there have been only two series in movie history that have reached nine films (Friday the 13th and James Bond 007 — neither of which require much narrative continuity between films anyway.)
Jun
06
As with States of Grace (aka God’s Army II), American Zion (Work & Glory Part II) was released and promoted with its ‘sequelness’ minimized as part of the on-going attempt of LDS films to attract a larger nationwide audience. (To this end, the opening of American Zion fills in most of the necessary details from …
Jun
06
The Work and the Glory (Part 1—with Part 2 and Part 3 soon to follow) is based on the nine part series of the same name by Gerald Lund. As with many book-to-movie translations, fans of the book will *probably* like the movie, although I suspect it’s not going to attract a lot of new …
Jun
05
Your response to seeing the new biographical film about Emma Smith, My Story, may be predicated on one statistic: Mentions of polygamy during My Story: 1
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