“Simon Magus” is a dark and dreamlike fable, “a tale” as its subtitle puts it, “from a vanished world.” Poetic and ambiguous, it manages to be magical in both the beautiful and terrifying senses of ...

This is the twenty-third entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles. This entry considers the beginning of the mission to Samaria and the introduction of Simon the ...

As if unearthed from a forgotten corner of an archive vault, the opening shots of Simon Magus flicker like a spliced-up German expressionist film, revealing a nightmarish world of crooked trees, ...

This is the twenty-fourth entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles. This entry deals with the apostles Peter and John taking up Philip’s mission to Samaria and Simon ...

Holy fool. Mad visionary. Mystic outcast. Simon Magus (Noah Taylor) is a mumbling, shambling loner living on the outskirts of the Jewish quarter of a small village in 19th-century Poland in this "tale ...

The Orange County Jewish Film Festival opens Sunday at UC Irvine. The event, co-sponsored by UCI and University Synagogue of Irvine, consists of five screenings through May 9. The schedule: * “Simon ...

After finding out by chance that his ex-girlfriend Mina’s Mum died, Simon decides to steal her body in order to provoke cathartic processes in Mina and do something for her. Mina hadn’t been in ...

Like the Enochian text it incorporates, Simon The Magus is... difficult. A relatively short performance without intermission, Simon is an extended dramatic monologue. Simon, played by Chris Herman, is ...

Simon is an outcast from his Jewish community because he claims that the devil talks to him and he has the ability to put curses on crops. When Dovid asks the 'Squire' to sell him some land so he can ...