Category: “The Ten Commandments”

‘The Ten Commandments’: At the Top of His Game: Cecil B. DeMille’s Triumph

“The Ten Commandments” (1956) has kept several generations of kids glued to the TV around Passover and Easter time, but Cecil B. DeMille’s epic is rarely taken seriously. Seen on a small screen, faded, panned and scanned, interrupted by toothpaste commercials, it can look pretty corny. But a 2010 restoration revealed the film to be,…


Painting the Past: Dutch Artist Brings Ancient Rome to Life

Like a bulldozer, industrialization plowed into Victorian England in the 19th century. Along with its positive impacts, such as rising incomes for some, new consumer goods for those who could afford them, and automated services for the rich, there were drawbacks. The Industrial Revolution changed the way Victorian society lived and worked as people moved…