Tomorrow, April 17, is Easter Sunday, at least for those following western forms of Christianity; I don't remember when Orthodox Easter is this year. As always, TCM has some movies appropriate for the occasion, starting after the first showing of Noir Alley. Night and the City (12:30 AM, so still Saturday night in more westerly time zones) is not exactly an Easter movie. It also gets the Sunday morning Noir Alley slot, breaking up the religious-themed movies on Easter Sunday. Most of them are the sort of epic you can imagine getting aired, such as The Greatest Story Ever Told (6:30 AM) or Barabbas (2:30 PM), about the thief who was released from crucifixion in order to crucify Jesus. As always, there's an 8:00 PM Sunday airing of the musical Easter Parade, which is not religious like the other movies. The TCM Imports movies have a Catholic theme to them as well, but unfortunately TCM isn't programming the 1929 version of The Passion of Joan of Arc as part of Silent Sunday Nights.
Interestingly enough, FXM is also getting into the Easter theme, although in a more limited way. FXM has The Robe at 7:00 AM, which is about a robe that Jesus wore just before the crucifixion, and how a Roman centurion (Richard Burton) comes across that robe, with pretty major consequences for the rest of his life. The movie had a sequel, Demetrius and the Gladiators continuing the story albeit not with the main stars of The Robe for fairly obvious reasons; that comes on at 9:15 AM. And then the double-feature is repeated starting at 11:00 AM. So nowhere near as much as TCM, but then they don't have access to as many movies as TCM does. And they are starting the commercial part of the schedule with everyone's favorite Easter movie, Die Hard.
It's been a while since I've mentioned anything that I listened to in any of the podcasts I listen to. But Radio Prague recently had an interview with casting director Nancy Bishop, who was born in the US but moved to Prague in the early 1990s after the fall of Communism. She talks about her experiences in Prague, but also about being a casting director and the intricacies of casting Czechs in non-Czech movies (thanks in part to the language issue). The interview runs around 16 minutes and can be streamed directly from the link above; if you'd rather download the MP3 to listen to elsewhere (I, for example, can listen to downloaded audio but not stream stuff where I work due to privacy issues only allowing the corporate firewall internet at our workdesks), the link is here and, I think around 8MB.
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