Please click on the tabs above for information and dates for the National Film Retreat and the Advanced Certificate in Media Literacy Courses for 2010. There are also tabs for the Movie Bible Nights for 2010 as well as the new film program for children in 2010. We hope you can join us! … [Read more...]
Media Literacy Courses and National Film Retreat 2010: dates announced
December 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Precious: Based on the novel “Push” by Sapphire and The Blind Side reviews
December 20, 2009 By 1 Comment
Precious: Based on the novel “Push” by Sapphire – The newly emerging screen actress Gabourey Sidibe plays the teen girl Claireece “Precious” Jones in a film about courage, hope, physical and emotional child abuse, rape, incest, determination, tempered with a tiny touch of humor and humanity. Precious lives in Harlem with her no account mother, Mary (Mo’Nique). She already has a Down syndrome child by her father (her grandmother takes care of him) and now she is expecting another. She … [Read more...]
An Education, Me and Orson Welles reviews
December 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Me and Orson Welles - This story, based on the novel by Robert Kaplow, is from one of my favorite “hip” directors, Richard Linklatter (Waking Life). It is set in 1937, when Welles was a known radio actor and before he took the world by storm both on the radio and in movies. “Me and Orson Welles” features a teenager (Zac Ephron; High School Musical) who is in love with the theater, acting, and writing, everything about it. He manages to get hired for no pay by Orson Welles’ company … [Read more...]
Fantastic Mr Fox, Brothers, The Road, 2010 reviews
December 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The Fantastic Mr. Fox – Based on a story by Roald Dahl (1916-1990), director Wes Anderson (The Darjeerling Limited) tells a wonderful and quirky stop-action animated tale about a wily fox (voiced by George Clooney who could get an Oscar nod just for this; Meryl Streep voices Mrs. Fox) who takes on three mean farmers by stealing cider, turkeys, chickens, and ducks from them. Well, he tries to outwit them as foxes are by nature wont to do. All the farmers get for their trouble is Mr. Fox’s … [Read more...]
A Christmas Carol, The Last Station, Up in the Air reviews
December 20, 2009 By 1 Comment
A Christmas Carol – Comedic actor Jim Carrey (Bruce Almighty) gives voice to the character of Scrooge in Robert Zemeckis’ animated version of Charles Dickens’ (1812-1870) classic novel. The story of the miser Scrooge is always relevant and Zemeckis (Who Framed Roger Rabbit; Forrest Gump) presents another timeless Christmas film for families to watch together. His beautifully animated “The Polar Express” (2004) remains one of my favorites. What I liked about Scrooge this time around … [Read more...]
Stuff White People Like – review? commentary? Both?
December 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Click here for my review and/or commentary on this book.... Stuff White People Like … [Read more...]
Samson & Delilah: Australian Film wins awards and enters Oscar race
December 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Last month Sr. Hosea and I attended a screening of this powerful Australian film about two Aboriginal teens that learn to survive in a social and natural environment that has nothing to offer them but poverty and death. As with the best Australian films, the landscape plays a key role in the story, as context and antagonist. Director/writer Warwick Thornton tells the story with deliberate restraint that comes from a deep understanding of the people he is talking about. "Samson and Delilah" is … [Read more...]
The The Ten Commandments in 2010 for Movie Bible Nights
December 14, 2009 By 1 Comment
Please see The Ten Commandments in Film for 2010 for our Movie Bible Night Program here at the Pauline Center for Media Studies for 2010. We will be using Lights, Camera, Faith: The Ten Commandments to guide our conversations. See www.PaulinesSoCal.wordpress.com for the film slate, dates, when, & where. We hope you will join us! Events are gratis but donations for refreshments always appreciated. The Ten Commandments (listed in Exodus, Deuteronomy and the Catechism of the Catholic … [Read more...]
Oh My God! & The End of Poverty: Two documentaries about failed systems
December 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Click here for my review of these films: Failed Systems: Two new documentaries explore religion and poverty … [Read more...]
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