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 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 …
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 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 …
“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 …
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 is a deeply important film dramatizing almost unimaginable courage and humanity in the face of also almost unimaginable terrible misdeeds and pain. It names harm more profoundly by showing its aftermath, and it tells the truth about religious and cultural oppression. It does all this Read More …
