In Shakespeare’s play Measure for Measure, one character says to another : “The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.” That line is …
Justice, Law, and Mercy Across an Onscreen Century
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Attention to art and faith, beauty and mystery from the back seat of the movie theater
In Shakespeare’s play Measure for Measure, one character says to another : “The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.” That line is …
A Hero – 2021 This writeup can also be found at Arts & Faith’s new list of the top 25 films on Crime and Punishment. …
Elmer Gantry – 1960 Dear Elmer Gantry, meet me at the revival meeting. Do not sit in the preacher’s seat and do not sit in …
The Eight Mountains – 2022 We are supposed to dream big when we imagine a 2 ½ hour film based on an award-winning Italian novel …
Dreamin’ Wild – 2022 What do you remember from your teen years? What if the things you forgot are suddenly remembered by everyone else you …
How did you first love the movies? Did you begin to love them because you had a special moviegoing experience with a person whom you …
What do we do with films that are defiantly strange? Is strangeness justified in art? It seems right to grapple with that question as we …
The images speak and proclaim. They whisper and they shout. They would call out to us even in the absence of sound. These things are …
Columbus is a film enamored with frames and spaces. Frames and spaces and the people who walk through them. The ways people talk about those …
Judy Blume really caught my attention when she said in an interview that Kelly Fremon Craig‘s film version of her novel is actually better than …