We make our dutiful pilgrimages to this Robert Bresson retrospective or that repertory house blessed with a 35-millimeter print of “Andrei Rublev,” and we return home in a state of grace, even rapture - a feeling that can be expressed in silence or in gushing, free-flowing conversation. We like to exalt the sublimity of the moving image, sacralizing what is too often regarded as a godless, sometimes profane medium. It’s not uncommon for some of us to describe a great, genuinely transcendent movie as a religious experience. DeMille's 1956 epic "The Ten Commandments." (Paramount Pictures) ![]() ![]() Yul Brynner, left, and Charlton Heston, center, in Cecil B.
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