Author: Arts & Faith
The Arts & Faith Top 100 — 2010 List
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 …
After Yang
The year of Colin Farrell began with this gentle science-fiction film about a family dealing with the breakdown of its robot, a sort of artificial big brother (the titular Yang, played by Justin H. Min) who was acquired by the parents to give their adopted Read More …
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
It is safe to say that I never expected to have my soul ministered to by a tiny, one-eyed mollusk wearing orange sneakers, but the Lord works in mysterious ways. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is a stop-motion animated mockumentary that depicts its namesake protagonist’s determined efforts to find his lost family Read More …
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once is one of those films that reminded me that life is messy, that the simplest of answers are sometimes discovered through unusual encounters, and that the multitude of distractions and noise of our existence can sometimes keep us from appreciating Read More …
Avatar: The Way of Water
“God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good.” (Genesis 1:31 NRSV) The joy of the natural world and creation rings through James Cameron’s sequel to Avatar, the biggest movie of all time. As a science-fiction epic, Avatar: The Way of Water takes a Read More …
Cyrano
Theological themes may not be a notable element in Edmond Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac, or in most screen adaptations, but Joe Wright’s showy musical version, starring Peter Dinklage—adapted for the screen from her own stage play by Dinklage’s wife, Erica Schmidt, with songs by members Read More …
Women Talking
Scathing without being scandalous, Women Talking keeps the gaze on the titular women and avoids any attention to the men who have victimized them. The women of a small enclosed religious community are the victims of repeated sexual assaults, while the men who commit these crimes go Read More …
Armageddon Time
It is tempting to parse the title as speaking of the time of armageddon. I think instead the film reflects on the nature of armageddon’s duration. The catastrophic time for the Jewish family in the film is in the past, but the past is always Read More …
Living
Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film Ikiru follows a man who receives a terminal diagnosis. Thisbureaucrat decides to stop “killing time” as he has done for so many years, and begins trulyliving a life of service and compassion with the small time he has remaining. A remake Read More …