![]() ![]() Even so, this one is worth seeing again, but not too often. ![]() Many films such as “The Agony and the Ecstasy” do not do well on television, even on large screens. There is just too much compression of the image. DeMille’s second version of “The Buccaneer.” (The first version from the 1930s is much better even though one of the supporting characters is the most annoying female role I have ever seen.) The latest excursion into the realms of nostalgia was “The Agony and the Ecstasy,” the adaptation of portions of Irving Stone’s massive novel about Michelangelo. The film stressed the friction between the reluctant Michelangelo and the domineering Pope Julius II out of that friction, something glorious was born, and I still relish my memories of seeing the Sistine Ceiling.Ĭharlton Heston and Rex Harrison were good as the friendly enemies, but I was always bothered by Harrison’s lack of a beard Julius had a heavy beard in all his portraits. Adolfo Celli, better known as the villainous Count Largo from Thunderball, did well as the future Pope Leo X.īy the way, this film was not Heston’s first encounter with characters from Irving Stone’s books I remember him from the black-and-white version of “The President’s Lady,” an early Stone novel about Andrew Jackson’s stormy courtship and marriage. A few years later, Heston played an aging Jackson in Cecil B. IMDb 7.1 2 h 7+ Drama Historical Joyous Touching Available to rent or buy Rent HD 3.79 Buy HD 10. The Curmudgeon is becoming apprehensive about his dwindling supply of DVDs to review however, he will soon have stacks of student essays and tests that can serve as targets for his slings and arrows. Agony and the Ecstasy, The A biographical chronicle of Michelangelo and the opposition he faced from Pope Julius II while painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. When the Pope Julius II (Rex Harrison) instructs Michelangelo (Charlton Heston) to paint the ceiling of t. ![]() In the course of the novel Michelangelo must overcome the interference of his family, religious dogma, political intrigue, papal patronage, military campaigns, and artistic jealousy to realize his artistic ambition.
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