Sebastiane by Derek Jarman is the only latin-language feature film I know. It’s good,—but note well: it’s an erotic film dealing with love between Roman soldiers.
Sebastiane (1976) de Derek Jarman est sola taenia plenâ formâ in sermonibus latinis quam gnosco. Bona est,—at nota benè: est taenia erotica amorem inter milites Romanos spectans.
If it’s any consolation, the actors in Sebastiane were unskilled in Latin, you might like to know, but did well nevertheless. And the dialogue is pretty sparse!
Si vobis consolationem adhibeat, scitote latinum in loquendo scaenicos illius taeniae non peritos, at benè tamen perfecti sunt. Et macrius colloquium!
There are these. http://www.lingua.co.uk/latin/ I cannot imagine they are any good. And then there is the Forum Romanum DVD from American Classics League. (http://www.nle.org/forum.html) The value of these, from what I understand, is that they are horribly cheesy. But they are in Latin. You could always watch Luke the Horse’s newscasts on Youtube and wonder at the wide variety of colorful shirts he owns. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRGTYXulemg)
If you’re not just kidding (you could be, of course, paulusnb), I can say this in reply. It’s still quite shocking today as a movie; it’s all about the visual; it’s not into innuendo; and maybe the aesthetics swamp the story of Christian martyrdom.
Si non modò cavillaris (quod cavillaris benè possibile est certó, paulusnb), hoc tibi responsare possum de hâc taeniâ. Et his diebus potestatem consternare habet; permagnè oculo est; palàm non clàm ea multas res scrutatur; praeter narrationem martyrii christiani, ars visifica eam forsit exsuperat.
An almost feature length movie has been made by the Latin Teacher and students at Santa Monica High School in California. The language is totally Latin and it is about the lives and problems of the students. The title is ‘Pacifica’ and this preview can be seen on YouTube
I should add that the classic film ‘Man for All Seasons’ with Paul Schofield (1966), there is a great scene in which Thomas More’s daughter speaks Latin with Henry VIII.
There’s a 2014 movie called “The Roman” or “The Son of Raw’s The Roman” by Simon Rawson. The script is entirely Ecclesiastical Latin, I think. I haven’t been able to find the full movie (in fact, I believe the movie was only finished in June).
As this is my second post, I’m unable to post any links, but if anyone is interested in a trailer, you can search IMDB and find a link to Rawson’s website.
Gratias ago propter magnas inscriptiones vestras; quattuor annum ego responsum mansi et quaesivi. Nunc gaudium mihi est inspirare huic foro vitam novam.
I looked this up. Seems like it could be pretty cool. Prolly not a lot of talking, I suspect. Unfortunately, it’s “making the rounds” or something at film fests. It is possible that it wouldn’t even see a limited DVD release. So, that would suck.