Dreamin’ Wild – 2022 What do you remember from your teen years? What if the things you forgot are suddenly remembered by everyone else you …
Dreamin’ Wild While It Lasted
Into the West and Movie Love Coming to Life
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 …
Godland and the Fog of Alienation
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 Boy and the Heron – Catching a Wordless Poem for the New Year
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 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 …