One of the best films of last year is new on Criterion. Here’s a link to the original Soul Food post, and you can view a trailer (or order a copy) at Criterion. At Criterion you’ll also find an insightful Armond White essay that points up the spiritual inflection of the film. White is intrigued […]
Nice piece in the Wall Street Journal profiling the director of NYC’s Film Forum, currently the focus of a series at the Museum of Modern Art. Through Feb. 20, the Museum of Modern Art is marking the theater’s anniversary with “Karen Cooper Carte Blanche: 40 Years of Documentary Premieres at Film Forum.” MoMA senior curator […]
Reflection on Christmas for the 2010 Christian.
The search for meaning in Community’s Christmas episode is perhaps a model for Christian witness and sharing of the search for truth.
If the central question of this film rotates on Schroedinger’s cat, the religious implication is this: If the tradition is the box, is God alive or is he dead?
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A look at the current economic crisis through a Lukan parable.
“I can understand somebody going to the movies because there’s nothing else to do, but when somebody really wants to go, and even walks fast so as to get there quicker, then it depresses hell out of me. Especially if I see millions of people standing in one of those long, terrible lines, all the […]
In 2004, 2005 and 2006, Arts & Faith polled its members and came up with a series of lists of 100 recommended “spiritually significant” films. After a four year hiatus, nominations are in progress for a 2010 edition of the A&F 100, so it seems high time to opinionate about which recent movies might be considered for the forthcoming list.