I watched this quiet miracle of a film recently with my daughter. We have been taking painting lessons together, learning how to blend color, the tonal habits of different brushes, and little techniques artists use to paint things like clouds or shrubs. This made the film a real pleasure for us both, as Takahata’s animation is […]

Welcome to a new monthly post we will be putting together here at Filmwell. As streaming video and VOD releases have become an essential part of the cinephile diet, keeping an eye on new releases can be a daunting task. In these posts, I hope to separate some of the wheat from the chaff as titles […]

“Love thy neighbor” strongly implies not punching them in the face for fun.

A presentation of the stonework installation ekko by Seattle-based artist Roger Feldman, who created this site-specific work as a call-and-response piece to Freswick Castle in Scotland, the grounds upon which the piece exists.

In death, we enter into the tomb on Friday with Jesus, and like the disciples on Saturday, all we can do is to wait in the darkness, hoping for the miracle we were promised on Sunday.

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. Although Santa may be problematic for Christians, it may not necessarily hurt the argument for faith: The Santa wars exploded again this week, occasioned by a column Pascal Emmanuel Gobry wrote for The […]

It is that time of the year when with a heave and a sigh I launch my top ten list out among all the others, knowing that mere moments from clicking “publish” it will feel like a flimsy record of a really interesting year in cinema. I had more than usual titles floating around near […]

Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. A newly discovered C.S. Lewis letter reveals his definition of “joy”: A letter from CS Lewis which was discovered inside a secondhand book sees the author writing of how “real joy … […]

Karen Swallow Prior meditates on the slow marriage of North and South.