A poem by Liz Dolan explores children’s responses to death.

Don Quixote – now there’s a loaded character for a filmmaker to take up. Whether Spanish director Albert Serra is a genuine man of vision or a tilter at windmills, credit him at least for the wit and self-understanding to choose the Man from LaMancha as his breakthrough feature subject. Of course, as soon as viewers realize that Serra’s Honor of the Knights (Honor de cavalleria, 2006) sets this beloved character adrift without the familiar narrative — or any narrative at all — they may join the naysayers calling Serra a conman. Or they may join those hailing him a genius.

This article looks at Mark C. Taylor’s theology as it relates to Thomas J. J. Altizer and Death of God theology.

A conversation with Dr. Joel Shuman on the bodily enactment of the church, specifically how it deals with death and dying, in a disembodied world.

In Times and Winds, we follow three children who are trying to cope with their difficult parents, their changing worlds, and their own turbulent adolescence. Their adventures play out in the Turkish village of Kozlu, a landscape alive with color and clamorous with the bells of livestock, a place as punishing as it is beautiful. All three live in fear of the adult world. … And there is no wonderland of wild things into which they can escape, no benevolent Totoro to lift their spirits.

Few films in my moviegoing experience have conveyed the hardships of growing up with such piercing eloquence.

In this essay, a gravedigger’s daughter considers the meaning of mercy.

Though he has many similar sequences in his work (e.g. the beginning of Heart of Glass, most of Fata Morgana), O’er the Land almost becomes the obverse of Herzog’s ecological cinema. It chooses to look when Herzog speaks. Its poetic edits undo the more patently coherent way Herzog places characters within the wilderness Stratman simply catalogs.

On individual stories and the films of Ramin Bahrani.

So the long awaited for trailer has hit the internet today, and I think it is safe to say that our collective curiosity is still well-piqued.