Cycling image by image through the idea of things being revealed and unveiled, the dawn that sets the film in motion culminates in the eyes of Johan’s wife fluttering awake – her resurrection an event that is consistent with the film’s almost theological preoccupation with images slowly growing in clarity. It is also an event that makes a MacGuffin out Johan’s despair, an incarnation of the glimmering light that suffuses Reygadas’ natural cinematography.
After two decades of living under an overpass, drug abuse, and self-loathing, a man’s life is transformed through Restoration Ministries, a Christian residential recovery program in Illinois.
From Art and Fear, a great book of wisdom for artists of any kind, by David Bayles and Ted Orland: The lesson here is simply that courting approval, even that of peers, puts a dangerous amount of power in the hands of the audience. Worse yet, the audience is seldom in a position to grant […]
IndieWire is reporting that John Krasinksi’s Brief Interviews with Hideous Men has finally been picked up for distribution by IFC In Theaters in September. The film is Krasinski’s directorial debut, which premiered at Sundance this year and stars Julianne Nicholson, Krasinski, Will Arnett, Dominic Cooper, Bobby Cannavale, Timothy Hutton, Christopher Meloni, Max Minghella, Ben Shenkmen […]
Between 1909 and 1915, photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky traveled throughout Russia recording scenes of Russian life in vivid colour. The images seem anachronistic: we’re used to seeing the early twentieth century in monochrome, and – apart from the clothing and machinery – many of these arresting pictures could come from last month’s National Geographic. R.J. Evans […]
This essay reflects on CS Lewis’s CHRONICLES OF NARNIA in light of the Arthurian quest for the Grail to show how a recovery of “life as narrative” can provide direction, release, and integration in faith formation toward an articulation of our lives as things of beauty, what Keuss refers to as “the life poetic.”
“Don’t you ever think about sin or guilt?”
“Why don’t you ask yourself the same question?”
Few films record the subtle transitions of the human soul with such reality and mystery, and with an artistry that seems so refreshingly artless.
From Abbas Kiarostami, “10 On Ten” I don’t believe the job of a filmmaker is to excite or move the viewer merely through creating special moments. By simply showing the reality, one can make people think about their own and other people’s acts or behaviour, and see and accept reality as it is. It’s from […]
Khoi Vinh discusses the minimalist narratives in Michael Mann’s films: With a nearly impudent disregard for common storytelling conventions, the director has in recent years taken to gutting from his works anything and everything that might be superfluous to the forward momentum of his core narratives. He affords his characters practically no backstory or prehistory, […]