The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that the on-again, off-again production of Michael Lewis’s Moneyball, ostensibly starring Brad Pitt (at least for now) and previously slated to be directed by Steven Soderbergh, is back, well, on again. But this time with Aaron Sorkin rewriting the script. (In my opinion, this can only be good news.) Sorkin’s […]
Roy Anker has reviewed Reygadas’ Silent Light for Books and Culture. It features some nice descriptions of Reygadas’ overall effect: To see the world this way, as if through a pair of Vermeer-tinged eyeglasses, is, frankly, startling. Perhaps this is Reygadas’ foremost gift: his “eye,” his luminous apprehension of the physical world. Whether it be […]
David Dark (author of recently reviewed Sacredness of Questioning Everything) slapped up a clip from Vivre sa vie over at his blog Peer Pressure Is Forever. And it compelled me to do the same here: There is a very fine line between Godard the ad hoc blowhard intellectualese grammarian, and Godard the conjuror of incisively […]
Criterion’s new edition of Alain Resnais’ Last Year at Marienbad gave me the occasion to revisit the film, at a point in time when I was already hoping to do so. I’ve always seen Marienbad as one of the most unique of cinematic experiences; it makes viewers entirely conscious of the process of cinema while […]
Revisiting Tarkovsky July 7 – July 14, 2009 The Walter Reade Theatre, Lincoln Center, New York Okay, so maybe New Yorkers are right after all: Manhattan really is the centre of the universe. To heck with the Empire State Building, they’ve got MOVIES! Years back I salivated over the two-month cinematic smorgasbord that was “The […]
Andrei Rublev might be considered the Mount Everest of spiritual film. It is intimidating, imposing, remote, yet sooner or later every cinephile with an interest in exploring the furthest reaches of faith and art will mount an inevitable expedition. For those who persevere, the film yields an extraordinary perspective on the world below.
In this essay, Jim Jewell exhorts us to see the beauty around us and then announces the creation of Flourish, a new nonprofit that works to integrate environmental stewardship with other church ministries.
A reflection on the beauty of creation and redemption in the impoverished, agriculturally scarred towns along the Dominican Repulic and Haitian border.
People ask what are my intentions with my films — my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct. I […]