It is tough to say much more about David Lynch’s Fire Walk With Me than what is covered in the recent review/digest by Alex Pappademas over at Grantland. This lengthy list of the surreal contours of Laura Palmer’s backstory is perhaps a model of efficiency for Lynch criticism, as it captures the sense of assemblage […]
(Join Jeffrey Overstreet and Michael Leary as they discuss the Top Ten films from the recent Sight & Sound Greatest Films poll.) JO: Michael, thanks for recommending that we set out on this ambitious ten-movie journey. I’m glad we’re starting out with 8 ½. I feel like we could spend a whole year discussing it, […]
The Arts and Faith discussion board, an online conversation hosted by Image, has more than a decade’s worth of dialogue in its history. And many of its founding personalities are still there. The board’s longevity has much to do with the substance of its discussions. It has had its heated arguments, its lamentable spirals […]
So apparently, it may be the case that David Gordon Green is switching gears again with a Little House on the Prairie film. I am on board with this, most probably because I am an ardent fan of the original TV version. Here is why: 1. The first season aired in 1974, the same year as Woman Under […]
Alternative History of Jesus: Episode 2 Surely we have all born witness to the Monkey Jesus* that now adorns a flaky bit of plaster in the Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Misericordia, a quiet church nestled in the western corner of Zaragoza. Once a fairly prosaic fresco in the mode of ecce homo, an amateur […]
The Texas Monthly article on the death of Marjorie Nugent at the hands of Bernie Tiede remains one of my favorite longreads (Midnight in the Garden of East Texas). The balance it strikes between affectionate regionalism, sexual oppression, bible belt charity, and cold-blooded murder is straight out of a Flannery O’Connor short. Linklater’s take on […]
A few notes on Moonrise Kingdom: 1. Survival Narrative: While growing up, Jean Craighead George’s novel My Side of the Mountain worked well as a master narrative around which I could arrange the details of life. For those who have unfortunately not read this book while still under the fertile canopy of childhood – it […]
A quick glance at the cover for this new volume on theology and film indicates that two Filmwell writers are involved. I read the proof during one of the editing phases and really enjoyed it. In hindsight, my essay is not so much about discovering theology in film as it is about exploring a way […]
Or at least, I think that is what he may say if pushed. We don’t quite have the opportunity to press Captain America on his theological background, given that reference to divinity in The Avengers is pretty spare. (This is okay. The primary purpose of the film is to be awesome, and it certainly accomplishes […]