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 …
The Flowers of St. Francis – Saint Cinema or Human Cinema?
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Attention to art and faith, beauty and mystery from the back seat of the movie theater
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 …
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 …
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 …