Looking Closer
Terry Gilliam considers the state of his career, the critical rejection of Tideland, his continuing hopes to bring Don Quixote to the screen, and his next project. Read more
Terry Gilliam considers the state of his career, the critical rejection of Tideland, his continuing hopes to bring Don Quixote to the screen, and his next project. Read more
This week, I have two more Seattle appearances to talk about Through a Screen Darkly. I’ll be at the Seattle gathering of the Chesterton Society on Thursday to give a presentation and sign books. You’ll find a description of my presentation, and the location of the Society, on their website. Then, on Saturday, I’ll be speaking and signing books at Harvest Logos Bookstore at 5 p.m. I hope to see some of you there. Read more
This weekend at the Biola Media Conference, I had a great deal of fun, and a lot of challenging conversations. I will be writing quite a few thank-you notes. Let me tell you just a few of the highlights: – Waking up in the hotel room, watching the world slowly come into focus, and seeing a black widow spider hanging almost within reach. It moved under a table, where it had a web already built. I called the hotel front... Read more
Salon.com reviews Tolkien’s The Children of Hurin. While debating whether to break up the chair for winter firewood, Sador talks to Túrin, the young son of Húrin who will soon be sent into exile and become the wandering, accursed hero of this gloomy, gory and highly compelling tale. “I wasted my time,” Sador says of his long labors, “though the hours seemed pleasant. But all such things are short-lived; and the joy in the making is their only true end,... Read more
Mark Shea, in a moment of genius, quoted Tolkien’s The Silmarillion when he learned about this fantastic discovery. Wow. Now I can’t wait for the album. And the tour. Who should open for the sun? Read more
Name the ten commandments. No, really… pause for a moment, turn away from the computer, and jot down all ten. Got ’em? Good. Okay, now name the twelve disciples. How about the Beatitudes? (more…) Read more
Darren Hughes is writing an essay on non-narrative filmmaking: “The Limits of Traditional Narrative Cinema as a Medium for Spiritual Contemplation” … which he qualifies as “A Witless and Obnoxiously Literal Working Title.” I can’t wait to read it. Darren is one of those writers who always strikes me as being miles ahead on a journey I’m trying to make (as time allows). And yet he writes with grace, with a voice that invites readers along with him, instead of... Read more
Two highlights of the new MTV interview with Frank “Shawshank Redemption” Darabont, who is directing Stephen King’s The Mist: MTV: You obviously are a great lover of the horror genre. What do you think of films like “Hostel” and “Saw”? Darabont: The torture-porn thing is pretty distasteful. I’m just not into it. Horror unfortunately tends to go in these cycles where it puts itself back in this ghetto. I just don’t find anything amusing about people getting tortured. I wish... Read more
Looks like “amazing grace” has been granted to Narnia. (more…) Read more
My friend and fellow Tolkien enthusiast Geoffrey DeWeese was surprised and upset when I expressed skepticism about the upcoming release of a “new” story by J.R.R. Tolkien. I confess, I was feeling really cynical about the whole affair. I’ve never found the immeasurable amount of extra Middle-Earth material to be compelling or even very interesting. Give me the enthralling narratives of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Give me more of his children’s stories, like the Father Christmas... Read more
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