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1964 Pier Paolo Pasolini French/Italian biblical drama about the life of Jesus Christ. "The result, as they say, is history. The Gospel According to Saint Matthew was like no biblical film seen before. It was a quantum leap beyond the artificiality of, say, King of Kings, both De Milles's silent 1927 version and Nicholas Ray's 1961 remake, and later pictures like Zeffirelli's television mini-series Jesus of Nazareth and Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ are inconceivable without Pasolini's model. Perhaps the most fascinating work inspired by Pasolini's tradition is Derek Jarman's Sebastiane (1976), about the martyred Roman saint. Pasolini continued exploring this unique, and mesmerizing, vision of the ancient world in such subsequent works as Oedipus Rex, Medea, and Arabian Nights. Wiki