A designer provides a nice overview of film title design from the silent era on through 2009: Have you ever thought of what makes you remember a certain movie or TV show? Of course, it’s the story being told, you’ll say. But what about movies such as Goldfinger, Seven and Snatch? What’s the first thing […]
Minnelli’s Some Came Running is generally considered a melodrama because of the way it pits classy against dingy, elegant against tawdry, and pastoral against fully-orbed CinemaScope kitsch. Likewise, its production was marred by a clash motivated by Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin’s disdain for Minnelli’s boorish focus on minute set details like wallpaper prints and […]
Brett McCracken. Hipster Christianity: When Church and Cool Collide. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2010. 255 pages. $10.87 paperback (Amazon). Click here or on the image below to purchase Hipster Christianity from Amazon.com and help support The Other Journal. When I was a teenager, I was religiously devoted to freestyle BMX: flatland, street, vert, all of it. It […]
Soft Skull Press is putting together a series called Deep Focus, which pairs “the smartest, liveliest writers in contemporary letters” with whatever films they want to write about. So far I can see Lethem on They Live (hope he talks at length about the fight scene), Christopher Ryan on Lethal Weapon, Matthew Spektor on The […]
On August 24, 2010, the acclaimed anime filmmaker Satoshi Kon died from pancreatic cancer, which he had been diagnosed with only a few months before. Kon, who directed Paprika, Paranoia Agent, and Perfect Blue, was seen by many as one of the great anime filmmakers — one whose stunningly animated films often delved into disturbing […]
Contrary to the pervasive “sacred-secular” dichotomy that infects many Christians’ view of the world of “ordinary” work, the Bible has a comprehensive and positive understanding of God’s involvement in the public arena, from creation to new creation, providing perspectives that should govern our ethical, missional, and pastoral engagement with it.
A reflection on the life of Alex Chilton, one of the most influential and yet unknown legends of rock music.
A review that finds joy in the creative crises and experimentation of the ALL DELIGHTED PEOPLE EP, the recent EP from Sufjan Stevens.
In this conversation, distinguished professors James K. A. Smith and James Davison Hunter discuss Hunter’s newest book, TO CHANGE THE WORLD.
