M. Leary

A Missional Imagination

“The term ‘imagination’ in what I take to be its truest sense refers to a mental faculty that some people have used and thought about with the utmost seriousness. The sense of the verb “to imagine” contains the full richness of the verb ‘to see.’ To imagine is to see most clearly, familiarly, and understandingly […]

M. Leary

Holy Motors (Carax, 2012)

Holy Motors lends itself to conversation about identity and all the slippery little details we cobble together to make sense of ourselves and our relationships. Father, daughter, elder, voyeur, employee, companion, uncle, etc… There is a Confucian arithmetic to the way Lavant’s character travels across so many different relationships in this troubling riot of a film, […]

Mike Hertenstein

Words & Pictures

My usual approach to internet memes is to duck and let them blow over. But “Reading the Movies” swept me into nostalgic list-making, to give honor to the books which were the most influential in my development as a film watcher, writer and programmer. Well, they’re not all books, but they DO involve words about pictures…