How does one adequately describe a poem, a prayer, and a visual odyssey in mere prose? This is the challenge when attempting to capture the cinema of Terrence Malick in words. A work of cosmic praise and lament, Malick’s 2011 Palme d’Or-winning film, The Tree of Read More …
In the spirituality of the Christian East, icons are sometimes described as “windows into heaven.” Even when they depict earthly events, their stylized approach is meant to evoke transcendent realities. Such transcendence in art is both the subject and the method of Andrei Tarkovsky’s haunting, Read More …
There have now been six iterations of the Arts & Faith Top 100 Spiritually Significant Films. Of the five in which the results have been ranked, films by Carl Theodor Dreyer have topped four. Until voters in 2020 chose to limit the Top 100 to one entry Read More …