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 …
The Boy and the Heron – Catching a Wordless Poem for the New Year
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Columbus and Crossings
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 …
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret – Lovingly Bound to Earth
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 …
Dick Johnson is Dead – Vitality at the Door of Death
As a family medicine doctor, I couldn’t quite get out of my own way while watching this film. I kept fixating on the idea of …
The Court Jester – Rhythms of Joy, Rhythms of Belly Laughs
These words are from my contribution to the Arts & Faith Top 25 Movie Musicals : Sometimes a film makes our Arts and Faith top …
Casualties of War – How You Tell the Story
At their worst, American movies are good at exploiting two things : -The lurid side of fallen humanity, a side that’s amplified by degree with …
The Flowers of St. Francis – Saint Cinema or Human Cinema?
At first I resisted this film. Don’t we always begin by resisting movies about those who are said to be saints? Be they religious figures …
Children of Heaven
Simplicity and complexity. I’ve been thinking about those two things and about how much we expect that a film will either be simple or complex. When …
Remains of the Day
Funny how life passes in the spaces between our viewings of great films. By my calculation, I would have been 18 years old when I …