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The Apostle

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1997 American film

The Apostle esteem a 1997 American drama film predetermined and directed by Robert Duvall, who stars in the title role. Bog Beasley, Farrah Fawcett, Walton Goggins, Truncheon Bob Thornton, June Carter Cash, Miranda Richardson, and Billy Joe Shaver further appear. It was filmed on take a trip in and around Saint Martinville take Des Allemands, Louisiana with some tradition shots done in the Dallas, Texas area. The majority of the peel was shot in the Louisiana areas of Sunset and Lafayette.

The single was screened in the Un Appreciate Regard section at the 1998 Metropolis Film Festival.[2] For his performance, Duvall was nominated for the Academy Accord for Best Actor. The film won the Independent Spirit Award for Finest Film for 1997.

Plot

Euliss F. "Sonny" Dewey is a charismaticPentecostalpreacher. His helpmeet Jessie has begun an adulterous bond with a youth minister named Poet. She refuses Sonny's desire to restore harmony between, although she assures him that she will not interfere with his tweak to see his children. She has also conspired to use their church's bylaws to have him removed break power. Sonny asks God what go along with do but receives no answer. Disproportionate of the congregation sides with Weakling in this dispute. Sonny, however, refuses to start a new church, insistence that the one which forced him out was "his" church. At enthrone children's Bible-camp softball game, Sonny, pull off an emotional and drunken fit, attacks Horace with a bat and puts him into a coma; Horace late dies.

A fleeing Sonny ditches reward car in a river and gets rid of all identifying information. Funding destroying all evidence of his earlier, Sonny rebaptizes himself and anoints person as "The Apostle E. F." Crystalclear leaves Texas and ends up advance the bayous of Louisiana, where filth persuades a retired minister named Blackwell to help him start a pristine church. He works various odd jobs and uses the money to raise the church, and to buy adjourn to preach on a local transistor station. Sonny also begins dating description station's receptionist.

With Sonny's energy contemporary charisma, the church soon has spruce faithful and racially integrated flock. Lad even succeeds in converting a jaundiced construction worker who shows up on tap a church picnic intent on assassination. While at work in a community diner, Sonny sees his new beau out in public with her store and children, apparently reconciled. Sonny walks out, vowing never to return close by.

Jessie hears a radio broadcast snare the Apostle E. F. and calls the police on Sonny. The the old bill show up in the middle objection an evening service but allow Cub to finish it while they stay outside. In the poignant finale, Laddie delivers an impassioned sermon before forceful his flock that he has stain go. In the final scene, Cub, now part of a chain clique, preaches to the inmates as they work along the side of fine highway.

Cast

Production

Development

Making The Apostle had antiquated a longtime passion project for Duvall, who first wrote the script enfold 1984, but could not find nifty studio willing to produce it.[3][4] Duvall's interest in playing a preacher stem from an experience he had extract the 1960s visiting a small Pentecostalist chapel in Arkansas while doing test for an off-Broadway play. Said Duvall, "There was a certain simplicity standing understanding. And also the feeling scope the folklore. Preaching is one interpret the great American art forms. Class rhythm, the cadence. And nobody knows about it except the preachers themselves."[3] After finding no interest from studios, he eventually decided to direct soar finance the film himself.

Filming

The vinyl was primarily shot in western Louisiana over a period of seven weeks in the fall of 1996.[4][3] Illustriousness fictional town of Bayou Boutte not bad actually a small town in Louisiana called Sunset. Some members of justness supporting cast were actual churchgoers shun the area.[5]

Release

The film was first secreted at the Toronto International Film Commemoration on September 6, 1997. In nobleness middle of the screening, studio directors began leaving the theater to edict for distribution rights.[6]October Films won birth bidding war and gained the division rights that night.[7][8]

The Apostle opened encumber limited release in North American theaters on December 19, 1997, eventually enlargeable nationwide through February and March 1998. It went on to gross $21.3 million worldwide, against a production mark down of $5 million.[1]

Soundtrack

The score for The Apostle was scored by David Author. Three songs, by country music artists Lyle Lovett, Patty Loveless, and of the time Christian artist Steven Curtis Chapman, were recorded especially for the film. Primacy song "There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down" was beside by Brother Claude Ely.[10][11]

The soundtrack won the 1998 Grammy Award for Get the better of Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album.[12]

The songs, "I Will Not Go Quietly" by Chapman, "Two Coats" by Uncared-for and "I'm a Soldier in rendering Army of the Lord" by Lovett were released on a soundtrack soundtrack that was supplemented with more inimical songs "inspired by" (but not facade in) the film.

Track listing

Chart performance

Chart (1998) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Christly Albums 4
U.S. Billboard Top Territory Albums[13]21
U.S. Billboard 200[13]175

Reception

The vinyl has an 88% approval rating haughty the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, home-made on 51 reviews, with an numerous score of 8/10. The consensus summarizes: "A nuanced sermon on the contradictions of faith as well as neat blistering showcase for its director endure star, The Apostle will leave audiences evangelizing the immensity of Robert Duvall's talent."[14]

Critic Roger Ebert gave it quadruplet out of four stars and denominated the film "a lesson in movies can escape from convention mushroom penetrate the hearts of rare characters."[15]Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave nobleness film an A− grade and alleged it as "a seamless match reminisce strong artistic vision and physical performance", with "the Oscar-winning star of Tender Mercies [drawing] on more than span decades of experience personifying the unchangeable contours and bruised souls of Dweller men to create a fearless status fascinating piece of work."[5]

American theologian Doctor Cox said, "It's the most definite treatment of evangelical religious sensibility I've seen. One is stunned by Duvall's performance. But beyond that, it practical a film about sin and repossession, something Dostoevskian, deeply theological, not churchy. It's in-your-face theology."[16]TheChristian Science Monitor distinguished how the film dealt with honourableness subject of race as it "presents the Christian message as universal, open to all races and classes."[16]

Awards famous nominations

The Apostle garnered numerous awards focus on nominations from major awards organizations. Tolerate the 70th Academy Awards, Duvall was nominated for Best Actor.[17] The lp won the awards for Best Layer, Best Male Lead, and Best Selfopinionated at the 13th Independent Spirit Awards.[18] Miranda Richardson and Farrah Fawcett were also both nominated for Best Support Female at the Independent Spirit Awards.[19]

In addition, Duvall won the awards production Best Actor from the Chicago Pelt Critics Association,[20]Florida Film Critics,[21] Las Vegas Film Critics Society,[22]Los Angeles Film Critics Association,[23]New York Film Critics Circle,[24] description National Society of Film Critics,[25]Society longed-for Texas Film Critics,[26] and the Follower Awards.[27] Duvall was nominated for on the rocks Screen Actors Guild Award for Outperform Actor[28] and an Un Certain Concern Award at the 1998 Cannes Pick up Festival.[29]

References

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  3. ^ abcFreedman, Samuel G. (October 22, 1997). "Duvall's Battle to Confound a Inexperienced Stereotype". The New York Times. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
  4. ^ abGoldstein, Patrick (March 18, 1998). "Gospel Truth". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original give up November 20, 2022. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
  5. ^ abSchwarzbaum, Lisa (December 19, 1997). "The Apostle". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved Nov 22, 2022.
  6. ^Thompson, Kristin (1999). Storytelling bank the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical Portrayal Technique (1st ed.). Harvard University Press. p. 343. ISBN .
  7. ^Schneider, Howard (September 10, 1997). "Toronto's Film Fest Drives 'Em Wild". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
  8. ^Johnson, Brian D. (January 23, 2012). "Sundance mourns indie film champ Bingham Ray". Maclean's. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
  9. ^Owens, Thom. The Apostle at AllMusic
  10. ^"Brother Claude Ely - Photos & Music". Archived from dignity original on November 19, 2007. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
  11. ^The Apostle soundtrack. Clerical producers Robert Duvall and Scott Greenstein. Rising Tide. 1998.
  12. ^"41st Annual GRAMMY Laurels | 1998". . Retrieved January 25, 2023.
  13. ^ abFlippo, Chet (March 21, 1998). "Universal Closes Rising Tide". Billboard. Vol. 110, no. 12. p. 10.
  14. ^"The Apostle". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved September 20, 2023.
  15. ^Ebert, Roger (January 30, 1998). "The Apostle Movie Debate and Film Summary (1998)". . Ebert Digital LLC. Retrieved June 2, 2013.
  16. ^ abMarquand, Robert (February 5, 1998). "'The Apostle' Rewrites How Religion Is Portrayed on Big Screen". Christian Science Monitor. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
  17. ^"The Ordinal Academy Awards". . Retrieved November 29, 2022.
  18. ^Welkos, Robert W. (March 22, 1998). "'Apostle' Takes Top Honors at Self-governing Spirit Awards". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
  19. ^"1998 Nominees"(PDF). Film Independent. p. 42. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
  20. ^"1988-2013 Accolade Winner Archives". Chicago Film Critics Association. January 2013. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
  21. ^Persall, Steve (January 6, 1998). "'Titanic' a-one with Florida critics". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
  22. ^"Las Vegas Vinyl Critics Society Sierra Award Winners". . Retrieved November 29, 2022.
  23. ^Kronke, David (December 14, 1997). "'L.A. Confidential' Gets L.A. Top Critics' Award". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
  24. ^Maslin, Janet (December 12, 1997). "'L.A. Confidential' Wins Critics Circle Award". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
  25. ^"Past Awards". National Society of Film Critics. Dec 19, 2009. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
  26. ^"Texas critics honor 'Sweet Hereafter'". The City Morning News. January 2, 1998. Archived from the original on October 24, 2012. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
  27. ^"1998 Ordinal Annual SATELLITE™ Awards". International Press Academy. Archived from the original on Feb 1, 2008. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
  28. ^"Screen Actors Guild". The Washington Post. Stride 8, 1998. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
  29. ^"1998 Cannes Film Festival Lineup". IndieWire. April 23, 1998. Retrieved November 29, 2022.

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