The Last Temptation of Christ

…album, Passion: Music for “The Last Temptation of Christ” (1989), featured a number of African and Middle Eastern artists (several of whom released albums with Real World) and won a Grammy Award. Gabriel’s work also has been marked by an imaginative visual component. His performances with Genesis were noted…

…Christians prior to its release, The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) was a well-received version of Nikos Kazantzákis’s epic novel (adapted by Schrader) about the self-doubts of Jesus as he carries out his mission. Willem Dafoe was well cast as Jesus, but some critics had problems with the more unusual…

…played Christ in Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)—a film based on Níkos Kazantzákis’s revisionist novel of Christ’s life and relationship with Mary Magdalene—and starred as an FBI agent investigating the disappearance of civil rights activists in the 1960s in Mississippi Burning (1988).