{"id":77,"date":"2002-04-30T15:57:26","date_gmt":"2002-04-30T22:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/?p=77"},"modified":"2002-04-30T15:57:26","modified_gmt":"2002-04-30T22:57:26","slug":"jesus-sidekick-is-pj-harvey-satan-is-a-new-york-bum-the-king-james-version-it-aint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Jesus&#8217; Sidekick is P.J. Harvey. Satan is a New York Bum. The King James Version it Ain&#8217;t."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"scotsman\"><\/a><em>The Scotsman, August 22, 1998<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Jesus&#8217; Sidekick is P.J. Harvey. Satan is a New York Bum. The King James Version it Ain&#8217;t.<\/strong><br \/>\nRating: 4 stars (out of 4)<\/p>\n<p>Millennium fever brings Jesus to JFK in a business suit.<\/p>\n<p>This is the Second Coming, Hal Hartley style, the acclaimed indie director&#8217;s playful and highly inventive contribution to France&#8217;s Collection 2000, television films about the end of the millennium. Jesus, in Hartley&#8217;s world, is accompanied by P J Harvey as Magdelena, all plush lips atop a stick-thin body.<\/p>\n<p>Satan, meanwhile, is propping up the New York bars, posing as a down and out, waiting for Jesus for the apocalyptic showdown on 31 December, 1999. The Book of Life has been downloaded on to a computer and an angry God wants his son to break the seven seals and end the world. But Jesus, played by Hartley&#8217;s veteran stalwart Martin Donovan, ain&#8217;t so sure, and the Devil &#8212; Thomas Jay Ryan, excellent as the constantly irritated fallen angel &#8212; just wants to get the whole thing over with as he is bored with humanity.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a celestial High Noon in New York filmed in blurry digital video and the glaring colours of a feverish world.<\/p>\n<p>Irreverent but not mocking and occasionally inspired, Hartley&#8217;s hour is a short delight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scotsman, August 22, 1998 Jesus&#8217; Sidekick is P.J. Harvey. Satan is a New York Bum. The King James Version it Ain&#8217;t. Rating: 4 stars (out of 4) Millennium fever brings Jesus to JFK in a business suit. This is the Second Coming, Hal Hartley style, the acclaimed indie director&#8217;s playful and highly inventive contribution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}