Despair is rarely more oppressive or more acute than when we cannot hope for a future. Alfonso Cuarón’s film Children of Men, based on a novel by P.D. James, explores this condition in perhaps its most primal aspect. In the film, humanity has stopped being Read More …
Few religious dramas have been met with as much contention and protest as Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ. Based on the 1955 novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, the film’s unorthodox portrayal of Jesus Christ (Willem Dafoe) and his battle with various forms of temptation Read More …
Signs came out during a precarious moment of cinematic history in the sometimes-fraught relationship between communities of faith and Hollywood. Following the release of The Last Temptation of Christ, a movie which critics loved and the Church at large hated, movies that openly addressed topics Read More …
Your conception of the afterlife is put on the witness stand in this 1946 classic. We follow pilot Peter Carter as an oversight of cosmic bureaucracy leaves his soul in a tug of war between a sudden romance on earth and his eternal destination in Read More …
“Well, Paterson. How’s life doin’ you?” “Uh, no complaints. You?” What is “the good life”? It’s a question that has occupied humans in every age. To answer it, we create stories and proverbs that warn of the perils of poor choices and encourage us toward Read More …
This commercial dog is not going to ruin my Christmas. A Charlie Brown Christmas premiered on CBS on December 9, 1965, and every year since, it has continued to welcome viewers into twenty-five minutes of the cool sounds of Vince Guaraldi’s music, the vivid colors Read More …
Watch Kenneth Morefield and Noel Manning discuss this list and the Arts & Faith history at Meet Me at the Movies. Listen to Arts & Faith voters Lindsey Dunn, Reed Lackey, and Brian Duignan discuss films on the list at 1 of My Stories. Click Read More …
What makes Solomon Northrup a painfully effective avatar through which the modern viewer can experience slavery is that, like almost all of us, he was not born into it. A free man of color living in New York, he takes a job as a musician Read More …
The 2005 Arts & Faith Top 100 list was the second iteration of the project and the first to rank the included films. It reflects a marked change in direction for the group. While the 2004 list was heavily populated with commercial Hollywood fare, the Read More …
The first iteration of the Top 100 Spiritually Significant Films has been preserved for posterity. Examining the list offers interesting insights on how the group has evolved through the years. At the time, the list was released with a statement that read: “The Top 100 Read More …