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The Arts & Faith Top 100 — 2006 List

Posted onMarch 19, 2023May 27, 2026AuthorArts & Faith

In 2006 guests and users at the Arts & Faith message board conducted the third vote to select and rank the Top 100 Spiritually Significant Films. Although the vote totals and discussion surrounding the process were deleted when Arts & Faith migrated from being a Read More …

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The Unknown Girl

Posted onMarch 18, 2023May 30, 2026AuthorArts & Faith

Listen. This is the first word spoken in Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardennes’ latest masterpiece, a parabolic moral mystery that is at-once quite ordinary in terms of its genre conventions, yet extraordinary in its formal brilliance and ethical considerations. Listen. The speaker is Jenny (Adèle Haenel), a youthful, Read More …

CategoriesEcumenical JuryTagsFrench language films, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, mystery

The Salesman

Posted onMarch 17, 2023May 30, 2026AuthorArts & Faith

Winner of last year’s Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, The Salesman did not receive a wide release until this year, and it is one of Farhadi’s most powerful films yet. The imitation between art and life blurs after two married actors are forced to evacuate their Read More …

CategoriesEcumenical JuryTagsAsghar Farhadi, Iranian directors, Persian cinema

The Florida Project

Posted onMarch 16, 2023May 30, 2026AuthorArts & Faith

Cinema about the marginalized pockets of the world is becoming more common, but back when The Florida Project first came out, what director Sean Baker was doing was quite new. The film features what he calls the hidden houseless, guests but never permanent residents of Read More …

CategoriesEcumenical Jury, Top 100 ListsTagsSean Baker, slice of life

Personal Shopper

Posted onMarch 14, 2023May 30, 2026AuthorArts & Faith

I grieve, therefore I am: if there is a single characteristic that grounds the personal identity of Kristen Stewart’s dissociative expat Maureen, it’s the yearning she feels to reconnect with her recently deceased twin brother. It’s the mark not only of her existence, but also Read More …

CategoriesEcumenical JuryTagsOlivier Assayas, psychological thriller, supernatural thriller

The Lost City of Z

Posted onMarch 1, 2023May 30, 2026AuthorArts & Faith

“Our world has set itself afire. I must look elsewhere to quench the blaze.” James Gray’s film tells the story of British explorer Percy Fawcett’s search for an ancient civilization deep in the Amazon jungle in the years before and after the First World War. Read More …

CategoriesEcumenical JuryTagsadventure, biographical drama, book adaptation, James Gray

Graduation

Posted onFebruary 28, 2023May 30, 2026AuthorArts & Faith

In the best of the year’s many broken-family dramas, Romanian auteur Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) surgically probes the invasive lure of cheating and corruption—and the cost of integrity—in a crooked culture. Outwardly, Romeo Aldea (Adrian Titieni) seems to be prospering, Read More …

CategoriesEcumenical JuryTagsCristian Mungiu, Romanian directors, Romanian language films

A Quiet Passion

Posted onFebruary 27, 2023May 30, 2026AuthorArts & Faith

An intimate portrait of the tortured soul of an artist, interspersed with several of her most famous works, Terence Davies’s unusual biopic covers the life of Emily Dickinson from her school days to her death, highlighting her tempestuous but compassionate relationships with her father, sister, Read More …

CategoriesEcumenical JuryTagsbiographical drama, Terence Davies

Mudbound

Posted onFebruary 26, 2023June 1, 2026AuthorArts & Faith

Dee Rees’s Mudbound plants itself firmly in Mississippi circa WWII, winding its way through the lives of a black family with deep, world-weary roots as they live and work as sharecroppers on the farm of a (once affluent) white family. Nakedly ambitious, Mudbound is a rural epic, chronicling the Read More …

CategoriesEcumenical JuryTagsBlack directors, book adaptation, Dee Rees, historical fiction, PTSD, women directors

The Arts & Faith Top 25 Spiritually Significant Documentaries (2023)

Posted onFebruary 25, 2023May 27, 2026AuthorArts & Faith

In May of 2023, participants at Arts & Faith nominated and voted for their choices of the Top 25 “Spiritually Significant” Documentaries. Two rounds of voting were used to pick the finalists with the list being limited to one film per director. A final round Read More …

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