1. Reviewing Marjoe (1972, 2006) - Religion in American History
14 mrt 2013 · Filmed in 1971, the documentary, directed by Sarah Kernochan and Howard Smith, won an Academy Award for best documentary film in 1972.
by J. Michael Utzinger Howdy neighbor. The Lord Bless you. I'm in town to give the devil two black eyes. It takes me a while to...
2. A Look Back at 'Marjoe,' the 1972 Documentary About Evangelical ...
23 dec 2014 · Marjoe is the story of an abused child preacher who grows up to become an Evangelical con man, living a double life as a dope-smoking, girl-chasing hippie in ...
I spoke with the film's co-director Sarah Kernochan about why the Academy Award–winning doc was lost for three decades, and how it was found again.
3. Marjoe (1972) Review | Bad Movies for Bad People
10 sep 2015 · Now for those who do not know, Marjoe Gortner was a child from a long line of preachers, going back five generations to the 1830's. With that ...
Though I am a Catholic, the culture built by American Evangelical Christians as it existed from its earliest beginnings as part of the broader anti-communist movement during the late 1940’s and ear…
4. Movie of the Month: Marjoe (1972) - Swampflix
6 jul 2020 · Marjoe is a 1972 documentary produced and directed by Howard Smith and Sarah Kernochan about the life and “ministry” of Marjoe Gortner. Marjoe ...
Every month one of us makes the rest of the crew watch a movie they’ve never seen before and we discuss it afterwards. This month Boomer made Britnee, Hanna, and Brandon watch Marjoe (1972). Boomer…
5. Marjoe (1972) – Hide your wallets - Mutant Reviewers
28 jun 2024 · Marjoe (1972) – Hide your wallets · Marjoe won the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1972, the first of two for documentarian Sarah Kernochan ...
“You go into it as a business, and you work it as a business.” Drake’s rating: I’m gonna need a bigger bucket Drake’s review: If you had “Drake reviews a documentary about an evangelical preacher” …
6. Marjoe (1972) - B&S About Movies
31 mrt 2019 · While this won the 1972 Academy Award for Best Documentary Film, it was a lost film for several years. That's because due to the fears of bad ...
Hugh Marjoe Ross Gortner first became known — way back in the late 1940’s — as the youngest person to be ordained as a preacher. Just four years old, he possessed an innate abilit…
7. Bonus Features: Marjoe (1972) - Swampflix
23 jul 2020 · Because of the film's uniquely 1970s politics and the distinct peculiarities of Marjoe Gortner himself, it's difficult to recommend many films ...
Our current Movie of the Month, the behind-the-scenes Christian evangelist exposé Marjoe, is one of the more captivating specimens of the “Direct Cinema” movement of the 1970s. It recal…
8. Marjoe Gortner, The False Prophet Who Exposed The Truth
8 jun 2021 · The official story was that Marjoe had received a visitation from God while in the bath. In truth, the bathtime visitations were from his ...
The child preacher turned movie star tried to pull the rug from under evangelical con-men, but no one wanted to listen.
9. Marjoe: Rapped in Celluloid - Christianity Today
“If I had to chose one Christian religion to believe in—and thank God I don't—I'd chose the Pentecostal faith,” announces Marjoe Gortner during an ...
See AlsoCheck Subdomains Of A DomainNEWS“If I had to chose one Christian religion to believe in—and thank God I don’t—I’d chose the Pentecostal faith,” announces Marjoe Gortner during an eighty-minute film documentary of his last few months as a Pentecostal evangelist on the revival circuit.Marjoe, recently released and premiering in New York City, purports to be an exposé of revivalists, Read more...
10. Marjoe | Quinzaine des cinéastes
Marjoe. Quinzaine 1972 | Feature film | 90'. Marjoe est un reportage-confession-testament : confession d'un jeune homme qui ...
Howard Smith, born in New York in 1936, is an Oscar winning film director, producer, journalist, screenwriter, actor, and radio broadcaster. He started his career as a photographer. His work appeared in Life, Newsweek and many other national publications. Several years later, he pursued journalism from another perspective and became a writer for more than thirty years. His articles appeared in newspapers and magazines ranging from Playboy to The New York Times; from the Ladies Home Journal to The Village Voice. He wrote regularly for the New York City based weekly newspaper, The Village Voice, in the 1960s and 1970s. During the Village Voice’s early and formative years, his column, « Scenes », with its reporting on the emerging counterculture, became a part of the paper’s groundbreaking new journalism. The column ran weekly for twenty years and became known for its cutting edge coverage and innovative short-form critiques. Howard produced and directed, with Sarah Kernochan, the Oscar winning feature-length documentary film, « Marjoe », in 1972, about the evangelist Marjoe Gortner. When it was first shown at the Cannes Film Festival, and subsequently played in theatres worldwide, the movie caused a sensation by exposing, for the first time ever, the underbelly of a corrupt movement, including its self righteous religious leaders, that was about to burst into public awareness. He followed up with a documentary film in 1977, called « Gizmo! », about improbable inventions of mode...
11. DVD of the Week: “Marjoe” | The New Yorker
31 mrt 2014 · The 1972 documentary follows a former child preacher on his comeback tour through Pentecostal churches in the South.
Sarah Kernochan and Howard Smith’s extraordinary and seemingly effortless 1972 documentary “Marjoe” (which I discuss in this clip), won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. It follows the former child preacher Marjoe Gortner on his comeback tour through Pentecostal churches in the South, which was arranged in conjunction with the movie, so that Gortner, who had lost his faith, could expose the business of religion and challenge the influence and authority of celebrity evangelists. Gortner talks about how he’ll perform, then performs, and then discusses the performance he just gave, sometimes lapsing back into the mode of performance, by habit and by affinity. It’s the story of a natural who comes to recognize just how trained and habituated his nature had become, and finding himself gifted at an art that, with the age of reason, he had come to repudiate. The movie’s seamless coherence is a tribute to its directors’ deft and graceful artistry. It’s the subject—Gortner himself and his electrifying public persona—that seems to do the work. The filmmakers saw the inherent Möbius-strip multiplicity of the story and caught it on the wing. It’s hard to imagine a film that takes as harsh a view of organized religion getting such institutional acclaim today. At her blog, Sarah Kernochan writes that the distributor “refused to open it in any city south of Des Moines” for fear of backlash from the Bible Belt. She also tells the story of the movie’s disappearance from circulation for d...
12. The bizarre tale of child evangelist turned conman, Marjoe Gortner
27 feb 2015 · If you've never had the chance to watch the fascinating 1972 Academy Award-winning documentary, Marjoe take a look at it below.
If you’ve never had the chance to watch the fascinating 1972 Academy Award-winning documentary, Marjoe take a look at it below. Produced and directed by Howard Smith and Sarah Kernochan, it’s flat-out great, a singular document chronicling the life of former child evangelist, Marjoe Gortner who, as an adult superstar preacher, admits on film that he’s using the whole evangelist racquet to scam answer-hungry parishioners out of their hard-earned cash. Gortner works with an infiltrating hippie film crew to expose his whole dishonest practice. Watching this is a truly I-can’t-believe-my-eyes experience not just because it gives first-hand evidence that the evangelist thing’s a scam (many of us are well aware of that already), but because of the willing, even eager participation of the film’s subject. This is just a truly only-in-America film that you have to see. It starts by giving a little necessary backstory about Marjoe Gortner. Strangely, the name Marjoe is an odd combination of the biblical names Mary and Joseph, and from the age of three-and-a half, the boy’s parents, especially his bizarre evangelist stage mom, saw little Marjoe as a sanctified, Pentecostal cash cow. While other kids were...
13. WILDCAT! THE RESURRECTION OF THE FILMS OF MARJOE GORTNER
13 jan 2020 · Having soared to notoriety/fame in the wake of the Oscar-winning documentary Marjoe (1972), the gripping expose of the boy-preacher whose name ...
‘Marjoe Gortner’ is not a name often mentioned when the Hollywood A-list of th...
14. Marjoe (1972) | Rotten Tomatoes
Movie Info. Synopsis In this revealing documentary, Southern evangelist Marjoe Gortner allows the filmmakers to record him swindling people out of money.
In this revealing documentary, Southern evangelist Marjoe Gortner allows the filmmakers to record him swindling people out of money. Raised to be a child preacher on the revival-tent circuit, Gortner made a small fortune for his parents. Later, he began preaching on his own in a lively, rock star-influenced style, but, since he lacked actual religious faith, money became his sole motivator. As he stages his final revival tour, Marjoe provides a rare glimpse inside the business of evangelism.
15. Marjoe | Encyclopedia.com
Marjoe 1972 (PG)Documentary follows the career of rock-style evangelist ... information on Marjoe: VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever dictionary.
Marjoe ★★ 1972 (PG)Documentary follows the career of rock-style evangelist Marjoe Gortner, who spent 25 years of his life touring the country as a professional preacher. Marjoe later went on to become an actor and professional fundraiser. 88m/ C VHS, DVD . Marjoe Gortner; D: Howard Smith, Sarah Kernochan. Oscars ‘72: Feature Doc. Source for information on Marjoe: VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever dictionary.
16. Watch "Marjoe" | The Front Row | The New Yorker
31 mrt 2014 · Marjoe, a 1972 documentary directed by Howard Smith,. and Sarah Kernochan. Its eponymous subject is Marjoe Gortner,. who was a child preacher in ...
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17. Resurrecting 'Marjoe' - The American Prospect
27 jan 2006 · In 1972, the film was finished in time for the Cannes Film Festival. Roger Ebert saw it at an out-of-competition screening in rented theater. “ ...
“We're here to make a film about Brother Marjoe, praise the Lord.” The words sounded awkward -- almost as if we were speaking in tongues. It felt bizarre to be calling strangers “Brother” and “Sister.” My co-directing partner Howard Smith and I had never spent much time in churches, let alone the revival tents and auditoriums of the Pentecostal faith. He was Jewish; I was technically Christian but my father, with a straight face, preferred to identify himself as a Druid. Yet there we were, in 1972, embarking on the Holy Roller circuit, navigating the Bible Belt, recording American evangelicals in their hyperemotional religious rites as if they were an obscure tribe in Pago-Pago.
