Looking Closer
Here’s Paste on what may be Pixar’s first live-action movie… 1906. Read more
Here’s Paste on what may be Pixar’s first live-action movie… 1906. Read more
I’ve been trying to ignore this, but Movieguide’s Ted Baehr just keeps bashing away at Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood for being “anti-Christian,” and for including “one of the worst, most superficial stereotype of Christian preachers ever put on film.” (Similarly, Barbara Nicolosi slammed the movie in a post called “There Will Be Bigotry”, which you can find in her archive here… but you have to scroll down a bit. The 105-comment discussion connected to it became rather lively... Read more
Look for my review of Joe Henry’s Civilians. on page 83 of the March 2008 issue of Christianity Today. I promised I’d post one a long, long time ago, and now it’s finally out, but in print. (It’ll probably pop up online soon.) You’ll also notice on that same page that ArtsandFaith.com was chosen among the top sites about literature, faith, and art selected by Gregory Wolfe. (Image journal was also highlighted… but you knew that was one of Wolfe’s... Read more
TONIGHT (February 28) AT 7:00 p.m., I’ll be reading from Auralia’s Colors at the Mill Creek Library. And you’re invited. Yes, there will be copies for sale. Yes, admission is free. And yes, there will be a Q&A where you can ask me embarrassing questions like “If you could rewrite one line in the book, what would it be?” and “Is it true that you snuck in a reference to your college band?” and “Is it true you actually gave... Read more
Ain’t It Cool has just posted the impassioned plea of a moviegoer who has seen Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are. His plea? Save this beautiful movie, before the studio heads decide to dump it and replace it with something stupid! (Warning: There is some “spoilerish” content in his description of the film.) Here’s an excerpt: Needless to say, this isn’t a movie for children… it’s a movie about childhood and the first fleeting moments where you start to... Read more
J. Paul Friedenmaker talked with me about Auralia’s Colors, and it all ended up posted at The Other Journal! Read more
Thanks to Ron Reed for making it public! This year’s nominees for the best films of 2007 according to the Faith and Film Critics Circle are quite surprising! That is to say, when the critics were polled, their favorite narrative films did not include one of the titles you’d most expect to see there. You’ll see what I mean in the list below. The winners will be announced next week. Who are the Faith and Film Critics Circle? Find out here.¬†I managed this... Read more
¬† Thanks to the Oscars, a few moviegoers will rush out to see The Counterfeiters, feeling adventurous for taking time out for the Best Foreign Language Film of the year. But here’s a saddening bit of information: The award won by The Counterfeiters doesn’t mean a thing. Why? (more…) Read more
Thanks to reviewer Jason Panella for his thoughtful look at Auralia’s Colors at Culture.ish. Read more
¬† Jean Bethke Elshtain, in Books and Culture, contemplates Todd Haynes’ film about Bob Dylan — I’m Not There — and Andrew Dominick’s film about a different, but similarly enigmatic, hero — The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. And she contemplates the resilient ghosts of both Dylan and James, digging deep into the questions we confront as we pursue both elusive figures. Read more
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