“I guess they had it coming…”“We all got it coming…” In Christian circles, that exchange probably rivals “make my day” or “do you feel lucky, punk?” as the most iconic piece of Eastwood dialogue. The irony of its status is that the doctrine that it Read More …
The Godfather has provoked so much nostalgia that it is easy to forget or overlook the fact that Michael Corleone’s recitation of the “offer he can’t refuse” story is met with horrified disgust from his girlfriend. “That’s my family, Kay, not me,” he insists. By Read More …
Based on Ernest Gordon’s Through the Valley of the Kwai (which also served as a basis for Lean’s The Bridge over the River Kwai), To End All Wars directly engages the spiritual battles faced by Japanese prisoners of war. The film asks–in the most extreme of examples–what forgiveness really means Read More …
Like the Bible itself, Franco Zeffirelli’s epic, ambitious made-for-television Jesus of Nazareth is often experienced in bits and pieces over the years, and is commonly better known in isolated parts than in its lengthy whole. Viewed as a whole, Jesus of Nazareth may or may not be the best Read More …
In 2006 guests and users at the Arts & Faith message board conducted the third vote to select and rank the Top 100 Spiritually Significant Films. Although the vote totals and discussion surrounding the process were deleted when Arts & Faith migrated from being a Read More …
Cinema about the marginalized pockets of the world is becoming more common, but back when The Florida Project first came out, what director Sean Baker was doing was quite new. The film features what he calls the hidden houseless, guests but never permanent residents of Read More …
Set in the early 1970s on the north coast of Scotland, Breaking the Waves nevertheless feels strangely timeless. With its bleak backdrop and its puritanical locals—who attend fire-and-brimstone sermons, of course—it recalls the stark environs of Carl Dreyer’s films. When Bess, a woman of what seems Read More …
Revenge may be a dish best served cold, but when offered up within movies, it’s usually piping hot. Such is the case with The Virgin Spring, a quiet film that slowly builds to an explosion of violence. Inspired by a thirteenth-century ballad, director Ingmar Bergman and Read More …
If Jesus were alive on Earth today, and if he had been born in an African slum, what kinds of things would he care about? How would the era and culture shape his ministry? Son of Man seeks to explore these questions. Working with the South Read More …
