Nun Films

Reel Monkey · Corn-Star Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 1121

Can you guys name some nun films? Not just american, but from all over the world. Movies dealing with nuns?

I have:
The Magdalene Sisters
Black Narcissus
The Devils

Can you guys think of some other good ones that I could use?

RM
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Thom · 14 Mar 2005 08:09 pm Post subject:

Sister Act.

Reel Monkey · Corn-Star Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 1121

how about non totally uber gay nun films (yes, Sister Act 2 is off-limits too). Rolling Eyes

RM
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Thom · 15 Mar 2005 11:46 am Post subject:

Two Mules for Sister Sara?

Reel Monkey · Corn-Star Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 1121

might actaully be useful. Do I want to include Eastwood in my paper... hmmm.... Razz

Anyone else? I'll take anything, not um... lame. Its for the Magdalene thesis I'm working on with nuns.

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Nate · 15 Mar 2005 01:29 pm Post subject:

I know Pedro Almodovar has previous films dealing with the Catholic church, and maybe there's some nuns in there. Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys? Nuns on the Run? I'm sure imdb will tell you loads more.
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ripvanryan · 15 Mar 2005 02:52 pm Post subject:

Agnes of God, with Jane Fonda. The Flying Nun, with Sally Field (which should totally be a movie, even though it's not).

Reel Monkey · Corn-Star Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 1121

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A Nun's Story
Lillies of the Field
Gamera vs. Mother Superior

Reel Monkey · Corn-Star Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 1121

Ok so I kinda have a huge smattering of nun films, but the most disturbing of them all is the nunsplotation film. I kid you not, it is as close to nun porn as you're going to get. I couldn't believe it!! And my professor wants me to include it in my thesis! So guess who is now the proud owner of nunporn. Yeah, you guessed it. Poor Mac is going to have a field day with that. He thought the exorcist was a bad edition... ha! Maybe I'll hide all my nun films in the computer room with my school books.

How in the world did I get pulled into writing a frickin' 5 chapter book about the degradation of the nun in film: 1940-2005 UNBELIEVABLE! I was so gonna write a book on the two-view grading scale.. how did this happen? Crying or Very sad

Anyways... I thought I'd just express my dumbstruckedness here... unfrickin' believable.

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Ham Sandwich · 20 May 2005 09:34 pm Post subject:

Nuns on the Run is pretty entertaining.
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Reel Monkey · Corn-Star Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 1121

Here's a list of all the movies I have so far. Not all of them are main pieces, but references. I'm still working through a huge list I've compiled and its coming along... slowly.

The Sinful nuns of Saint Valentine (so not the porn film every made it out to be. There really isn't anything there... The Devils is more pornographic than this)
Story of a Cloistered Nun
The Trouble with Angels
Brides of Christ
Lilies of the Field
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Libertarias
El Mar
Nuns on the Run
Change of Habit
The Magdalene Sisters
Sex in a Cold Climate
Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
The Bells of Saint Mary's
A Nun's Story
The Sound of Music
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Black Narcissus
the Devils
Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun
The Nun
Sister Act 1 & 2
Blues Brothers
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Reel Monkey · Corn-Star Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 1121

I am sharing this with you, but this is totally not to be stolen in any way or I will murder anyone who does. MURDER YOU!!! But I just wanted to get some feedback. Angel

But I will be discussing smaller films within the chapters, but i had to focus on a few films that really bring together the time period.

Title: Half a Woman: The Nun in Film WWII to the Present

Purpose: To explore the movement of the character of the nun from a vision of purity and social well-being to the embodiment of moral depravity and social corruption.

Introduction: But Look At Me! I'm a Nun! I'm a Penguin!
Present a general image of the Catholic nuns and their history, their role in America and Great Britain as societies' first independent women, the backbone of America's schools and hospitals and the taking of vows as the ultimate sacrifice for a young woman.

Chapter 1: Do You Think It's a Good Thing to Let Her Feel Important? (1945-1969)
A. A Brief Timeline of Events (1 page)
1. Major Film History Events
2. Major Historical Events
3. Major Women's Rights Events
4. Major Catholic Church Events
B. Overall View of the nun in this period of film
1. What is the consensus
i. Are nuns good? Are they evil?
ii. What do they signify
2. Her common role in the film
i. Motherly figure?
ii. Rebel? Sexual?
3. Vice and Virtues
i. What are the qualities of the nun
C. Discussion of two prominent films and their nun figures
1. The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)
i. Dir. Leo McCarey
ii. Bing Crosby
iii. Ingrid Bergman
2. --------------------

Chapter 2: Sin Can Be Caught as Easily as the Plague! (1970-1989)
A & B same as above
C. Discussion of two prominent films and their nun figures
1. The Devils(1971)
i. Dir. Ken Russell
ii. Vanessa Redgrave
iii. Oliver Reed
2. Agnes of God (1985)
i. Dir. Norman Jewison
ii. Jane Fonda
iii. Anne Bancroft

Chapter 3: It's Not Faith, It's Work. (1990-2005)
A&B same as other chapters
C. Discussion of two prominent films and their nun figures
1. Dead Man Walking (1995)
i. Dir. Tim Robbins
ii. Susan Sarandon
iii. Sean Penn
2. The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
i. Dir. Peter Mullan

Conclusion: Spectacles, Testicles, Wallet and Watch?
Bring together all the loose ends in order to form a more concise point that nuns have become a disgraced group of women in film, morally depraved and sexualized, within the media and film in particular. Parallel with the general shape of women's social role ("working women," social worker).
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Thom · 21 Jul 2005 04:42 pm Post subject:

Hey, sounds really cool. I mean, as far as nuns go. Razz

Notelgnis · Member Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 81

I am totally stealing this.
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Notelgnis · Member Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 81

If anyone caught video of this, you could use it as a film... kind of...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/08/23/belgian.nun.reut/index.html

Reel Monkey · Corn-Star Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 1121

sweet!
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TremontiSlash · 26 Aug 2005 05:23 pm Post subject:

The Sound of Music
Where Angels go.....Trouble Follows
Sister Act
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Reel Monkey · Corn-Star Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 1121

OMG OMG OMG!!

I just wrote like 70 pages in like... 3 1/2 days. So now I can actually get back to helping ya'll and answering your questions and replying to your e-mails.

Yes, I haven't been ignoring you, I've been writing the first draft of my master's thesis. Mmmm... my first publication in the works. Its so bittersweet.

Man my head hurts...

RM
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Reel Monkey · Corn-Star Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 1121

89 pages!!! I wrote 89 pages... about nuns... head... hurts...

Carry Out on a Stretcher

I orally defend my thesis tomorrow at 2:30PM EST.

This is it!! I'm almost done..... then you must all call me Master Monkey!!! MWHAHAHAHA!!!! Twisted Evil

RM
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