“When film subverts our absorption in the temporal and reveals the depths of our own reality, it opens us to a fuller sense of ourselves and our world. It is alive as a devotional form.” —Nathaniel Dorsky, Devotional Cinema “If I had a friend who wanted me to Read More …
Robert Bresson’s 1962 version of this famous historical event, based entirely on the minutes from the trial, provides a claustrophobic, reverent, and surprisingly brisk walk through significant moments in Joan’s final days. Clocking in at a mere sixty-one minutes, Bresson’s frequent cuts make the film Read More …
“Perhaps we give the people who come here a chance to forget for a while, for a few short moments, the harsh world outside. Our theater is a little room of orderliness, routine, care and love.” Oscar Ekdahl, Fanny and Alexander Originally slated to be his Read More …
Apparently lost, some men who claim to be treasure hunters drive their jeep through rugged country in what seems like Middle of Nowhere, Iran. It’s actually a Kurdish province, and a polite young boy guides the driver—a man called the Engineer (Behzad Dourani)—into the town Read More …
Because Nasim is an Afghani refugee who can barely provide for his family as an itinerant well-digger in Iran, he doesn’t have enough money to pay for the treatment that could spare his wife in the local hospital. Stuck in a health care system simply Read More …
Famously made for under $10,000 in the early 1970s, Charles Burnett’s portrait of life in Watts never received a commercial release due to legal issues surrounding its use of music. But it was eventually chosen by the Library of Congress to be preserved in the Read More …
Before My Night at Maud’s became the routine representative of Rohmer’s work at Arts & Faith, The Green Ray had its moments of being favored. The story of a young woman being disenchanted with the way society treats singles might, perhaps, speak more pointedly to Read More …
As the son of a Lutheran pastor, faith and doubt is at the center of many of Bergman’s films, perhaps nowhere more explicitly than in this film, Winter Light, and The Silence. The necessity of doubt as a means to enrich one’s faith, or learning to see Read More …
The 2010 version of the Arts & Faith Top 100 was the fourth version of the list, and it was the first made during the period when the Arts & Faith discussion board was owned and operated by Image Journal. It came four years after Read More …
