The term 'New Wave' conjures up images of Paris in the early 1960s: Jean Seberg and Jean Paul Belmondo, the young Jean-Pierre Leaud, the three protagonists of "Jules and Jim" capering across a bridge, all from the films of French filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut. The impact of the Fr[...]
Sean Martin considers both the orthodox and speculative version of events, and includes the latest revelations from the Vatican Secret Archives.[...]
Gnosticism - derived from the Greek word gnosis, to know - is the name given to various religious schools that proliferated in the first centuries after Christ and, at one time, almost became the dominant form of Christianity. Yet some Gnostic beliefs derive from the older Mystery traditions of Gree[...]
Andrei Tarkovsky is the most celebrated Russian filmmaker since Eisenstein, and one of the most important directors to have emerged during the 1960s and 70s. Although he made only seven features, each one was a major landmark in cinema, the most well-known of them being the mediaeval epic Andrei Ru[...]
The First Christian Heretics. In this book, Sean Martin recounts the long and diverse history of Gnosticism, and argues for its continued relevance today.[...]