Slog - Comments on This Week on DVD http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_dvd I'll get to This Weekend at the Movies shortly, but first I must obsess about The Godless Girl. You've probably never seen this exuberant, schizoid epic--by Ten Commandments maestro Cecil Blount De Mille--because it was produced without a soundtrack when silent films were going out of style, lost money at the box office, and fell into obscurity. It's newly available on DVD, thanks to the National Film Preservation Foundation, whose third immense DVD box set of American film "treasures" I review in this week's DVD column. Here's the bit of room I had for The Godless Girl: The most thrilling... Copyright 2008 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:25:57 -0800 Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:49:44 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Mr. Poe /suicide

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_dvd#c834241 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_dvd#c834241 Arts Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:15:30 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Real hardcore God-botherers are against Christmas. It's a pagan festival of greed. Ian Paisley, the nuttiest right-wing kook Christian in the world, will tell you. It's these soft, worldly American poofters like Pat Robertson and Bill O'Reilly who've sold their God for commerce.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_dvd#c834294 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_dvd#c834294 Arts Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:55:31 -0800 Comment by K No, no, her naked frolic is just an artistic representation of her freedom from sin and a return to the innocence of being in God's grace. Her nakedness represents her having lost the dirty rags of atheist sin.

Adam and Eve weren't *really* naked in the Garden of Eden. (Just ask my 2nd grade art teacher.) Obviously, when the Bible says they were "naked", it just means that they were blissfully innocent without the trappings of morality.

And everything the Bible says (or means) is true.

]]> K http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_dvd#c834469 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_dvd#c834469 Arts Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:59:27 -0800 Comment by bill I too oppose the use of primates in film, starting with homo sapiens sapiens.

]]> bill http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_dvd#c834756 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_dvd#c834756 Arts Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:23:03 -0800 Comment by annie Pardon, "other primates."

]]> annie http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_dvd#c834774 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_dvd#c834774 Arts Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:29:30 -0800 Comment by CAROL FAB-O article :-) Seriously, loved the piece and agree with your take on why Basquette was frolicking in the river (was not a normal Baptism :-) )

Saw Godless Girl in July at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. I thought the 1200 person audience at the Castro Theatre was going to explode during the finale.

]]> CAROL http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_dvd#c834820 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/this_week_on_dvd#c834820 Arts Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:49:44 -0800