The \u201cPurge\u201d movies are missing from the list, as are the entries in the \u201cSaw\u201d franchise. There are no \u201cEvil Dead\u201d titles. \u201cThe Exorcist\u201d is suspiciously absent. <\/p>\n
The list, in this case, is the favorite four films of Pope Leo XIV, f.k.a. Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago. The pontiff released the list via video<\/a> ahead of a planned meeting Saturday with luminaries from the world of cinema. <\/p>\n To avoid the risk of being played off the stage by the academy\u2019s orchestra, let\u2019s share the winners quickly: <\/p>\n 1. \u201cIt\u2019s a Wonderful Life,\u201d 1946 That\u2019s it. No \u201cThe Agony and the Ecstasy.\u201d No \u201cPope Joan\u201d or \u201cSpotlight\u201d or \u201cConclave,\u201d for obvious reasons. No \u201cSister Act\u201d or \u201cOh, God!\u201d or any of the associated sequels, for less obvious reasons. <\/p>\n As a matter of fact, not a single comedy at all, much less a goofy comedy. And on either the drama or comedy fronts, the pope definitely could have chosen at least one flick set in his former neck of the woods. Think \u201cThe Blues Brothers,\u201d \u201cHome Alone,\u201d \u201cThe Untouchables,\u201d \u201cHigh Fidelity,\u201d \u201cEight Men Out\u201d or \u201cFerris Bueller\u2019s Day Off.\u201d (Think \u201cChicago,\u201d for goodness\u2019 sake.)<\/p>\n Pope Leo will apparently be meeting Saturday with Hollywood types including, Variety<\/a> reports, actors Monica Bellucci, Cate Blanchett, Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Viggo Mortensen and Chris Pine, plus directors Spike Lee, George Miller, Giuseppe Tornatore and Gus Van Sant.<\/p>\n Seems the pope \u201chas expressed his desire to deepen dialogue with the World of Cinema, and in particular with actors and directors, exploring the possibilities that artistic creativity offers to the mission of the Church and the promotion of human values,\u201d according to a statement obtained by CNN<\/a>. <\/p>\n That sounds all well and good, and a person can\u2019t really go wrong with the movies on the pope\u2019s list \u2014 two of the four are best picture Oscar winners, and the other two are best picture nominees. <\/p>\n That said, let\u2019s shed a tiny tear for the exclusion of \u201cBruce Almighty,\u201d if only because Morgan Freeman could use a little papal recognition too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u201cPurge\u201d movies are missing from the list, as are the entries in the \u201cSaw\u201d franchise. There are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[17654,4419,30149,23929,32739,32736,32742,48,52,51,47,50,49,32737,32738,32734,32735,32741,32733,32740,8074],"class_list":["post-51064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-cate-blanchett","tag-chicago","tag-cinema","tag-dave-franco","tag-favorite-film","tag-favorite-movie","tag-george-miller","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-meeting-saturday","tag-obvious-reason","tag-pope","tag-pope-leo-xiv","tag-viggo-mortensen","tag-wholesome-list","tag-wonderful-life","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
2. \u201cThe Sound of Music,\u201d 1965
3. \u201cOrdinary People,\u201d 1980
4. \u201cLife Is Beautiful,\u201d 1997<\/p>\n