Looking Closer
McSweeney’s Mari Ness submits A Letter to His Imperial Majesty, Aslan: (more…) Read more
McSweeney’s Mari Ness submits A Letter to His Imperial Majesty, Aslan: (more…) Read more
My friend Mark Moring just sent this in: At the age of 11, Keith Green appeared on the TV show I’ve Got a Secret, hosted by Steve Allen, in 1965. This is before his conversion to Christ, but in the song he plays near the end of the segment, his style is already evident. Pretty cool stuff: Read more
Want to know if Andrew Adamson’s Prince Caspian is fun and entertaining? Check out the reviews archived at Rotten Tomatoes. But if you’re a fan of C.S. Lewis’s Prince Caspian, which is something quite different, and if you hope to see Lewis’s ideas come to life on the big screen in Adamson’s film, well… what follows is a collection of reviews that address that question. This collection will be updated as I find further interesting reviews on the subject. Feel... Read more
Did Prince Caspian get the right rating? Cinematical’s Eric Snider thinks the “PG” is misleading. … watch The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian and marvel at how such a violent movie magically got the kid-friendly PG rating. I didn’t know the rating before I watched it, and I didn’t remember, off the top of my head, whether the first Chronicles of Narnia was PG. (It was.) As Prince Caspian unfolded, I noted that there was an awful lot of stabbing,... Read more
When it comes to The Chronicles of Narnia films, well… I want them to be great. I want them to be entertaining, yes. But more than anything, I hope that the filmmakers finds ways to preserve the ideas at the core of the story. In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, they did a decent job, but some of their decisions suggested that they failed to understand some of Lewis’s ideas. And in stripping Aslan of some of his... Read more
Are you looking forward to the appearance of Bacchus in Prince Caspian? Alas, you won’t see that scene. That’s just the beginning of the cuts that concern Peter T. Chattaway in his review of the movie at Christianity Today. Wow. Chattaway does find the film quite entertaining. But I just wish that efforts like this one, and like Alfonzo Cuaron’s extraordinary film Children of Men, would do away with the label “Based on the book.” Rather, they are new stories,... Read more
Aaaaaaaand they’re off! The Cannes Film Festival has begun, which means Indiana Jones is suiting up for his first big-screen adventure in twenty years, and a crop of great works of art destined to be almost ignored in America are about to screen for very lucky audiences. (more…) Read more
Steven D. Greydanus interviews the men behind Prince Caspian. And he finds them making some rather dubious claims. Unlike presidential candidates, the films’ producer, Mark Johnson, doesn’t even want to talk about change … at least when it comes to Narnia. “I’ve produced a lot of movies based on books,” he said, speaking at a New York press event with other Narnia filmmakers. Citing titles from The Natural to The Notebook, Johnson said, “We made big changes in all of... Read more
Brooks on a new challenge for those who believe in a “personal God” David Brooks talks about why believers’ debates with Richard Dawkins are “just a sideshow,” and that the real revolution is something like “neural Buddhism.” – Fraggle Rock is here to stay Cory Edwards is bringing back the Fraggles. Here’s his announcement, and a quick Q&A. – Scarlett sings Josh Hurst reviews Scarlett Johansson’s album of Tom Waits covers. You can probably guess where the weakest link can... Read more
The Hollywood Reporter is trying to ruin my day, claiming that Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant is being re-made by Werner Herzog, with Nicolas Cage stepping into the role already owned by Harvey Keitel. But it couldn’t possibly be true. Cage would know better than to ruin (*cough* Wings of Desire *cough*) an already legendary movie (*cough*The Wicker Man*cough) by creating a mediocre imitation… right? And what will Herzog, with his particular worldview, do with that profoundly spiritual conclusion? (via Cinematical) Read more
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