(Join Jeffrey Overstreet and Michael Leary as they discuss the Top Ten films from the recent Sight & Sound Greatest Films poll.) JO: Michael, thanks for recommending that we set out on this ambitious ten-movie journey. I’m glad we’re starting out with 8 ½. I feel like we could spend a whole year discussing it, […]
Even those concerned with issues regarding ‘social and ecological justice’ are not immune to treating other living beings as nothing more than mere commodities. Oxen Bill and Lou, who have served Green Mountain College for ten years, are headed for slaughter. “No big deal,” you say. After all, at least these cows lived free from […]
First of all, many apologies for not posting in a week and a half. I’ve been in the throes of Thespianism. And yes, that is every bit as dramatic as it sounds. Anyway, we’re back with a vengeance (sort of). I’ve landed a number of interviews, including this series of Five Questions with the military […]
Wim Wenders at Naked Punch: There are films made to exist as box office results first, or as reviews first, or as expression of the author first. My films are meant to come to life in people’s heads. They are incomplete before, actually they are meant to be incomplete. I see them like open systems […]
This essay, a response to a recent exchange between Stephen Webb and William T. Cavanaugh, explores the theological and ethical significance of food for Christians—what we eat, how and where it is obtained, and who suffers as a result of its production.
The Arts and Faith discussion board, an online conversation hosted by Image, has more than a decade’s worth of dialogue in its history. And many of its founding personalities are still there. The board’s longevity has much to do with the substance of its discussions. It has had its heated arguments, its lamentable spirals […]
So apparently, it may be the case that David Gordon Green is switching gears again with a Little House on the Prairie film. I am on board with this, most probably because I am an ardent fan of the original TV version. Here is why: 1. The first season aired in 1974, the same year as Woman Under […]
In “Manifest,” Quist’s Sunday morning rush is interrupted by a presence that both calms and sharpens, a presence that turns irritation into reverent watchfulness.
But this habit of close observation—in Humboldt, Darwin, and others. Is it to be kept up long, this science? — Henry Thoreau, Journal, July 23, 1851 I walk a lot. Since I live in Vermont, where endless woods beckon, walking comes naturally—but in the early 1980s, as a student at the Rutgers College of […]