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A review of Death’s & Transfigurations by Paul Mariani.

  I once took a ride in a small car with a sunroof. My head touched the ceiling — a common problem for a tall guy like me — but otherwise, I was comfortable. It never occurred to me that I might be in any danger. And I didn’t sense anything unusual when the breeze became […]

As Filmwell gets under way, I’m traveling through Japan with my family on an extended vacation. And so, it only seems fitting that my first post here deal with Japanese cinema in some regard. When I reflect on Japanese cinema, I find that one of the things that continually draws me back to it is […]

In this creative nonfiction piece, a woman recycles her dead lover’s computer and discovers the difficulty of letting go.

By stripping down his camerawork to such bare elements, he also undoes a lot of the patterns and conventions we usually expect from science fiction. Whether it is intentional or not, Canary makes a lot of the same points as Sontag, who criticized her era of science fiction filmmaking as a fantasy that we use to cope with the terrors of the technological age.

A review of what Brent Laytham’s book, God Does Not, does and does not do in the way of fostering imaginative, theological discernment for the church with regard to God’s activity in the world.

David Bordwell spreads the word: Kiarostami’s latest is magnificent. Shocking, I know.

We Filmwell writers are aficionados of the kind of films most people never hear about: foreign movies, realism, character-driven stories – the little, the obscure, the transcendent. Sure, we like our blockbusters, but sometimes it’s the little films that really sit in your soul. But that’s not what I’m thinking about today. My husband works […]

Noah Baumbach casts Ben Stiller in a new project.