Looking Closer
Just so you know, Christianity Today gives positive reviews to wicked movies like Pan’s Labyrinth. At least, that’s what this letter writer says on the Read more
Just so you know, Christianity Today gives positive reviews to wicked movies like Pan’s Labyrinth. At least, that’s what this letter writer says on the Read more
from FMQB: On March 20, Badman Recording Co. will release We Walked In Song, the ninth studio recording from The Innocence Mission. The 11 tracks were recorded and mixed by Don Peris at his home studio in Lancaster with his wife Karen on vocals, guitars, pump and Hammond organs and piano. Don Peris handles backing vocals, guitars, drums and Hammond organ, and Mike Bitts is on upright and electric bass. The band plans on touring the East Coast in the... Read more
2014 Update: Oh how I wish someone would re-release Watership Down on Region 1 blu-ray in a format that captures the vivid beauty of the theatrical release. The current American DVDs show that they were produced from a worn and faded print. Attention, lords of the Criterion Collection! Save this timeless, exemplary work! – Before you choose Martin Rosen’s animated feature Watership Down as a movie-time babysitter for your kids, please note: This is not Finding Nemo. (more…) Read more
Somebody needs to send Peter Jackson and New Line’s head guy Robert Shaye to marriage counseling: In an interview with SciFi.com, Shaye says that, “Not that I don’t think Peter is a good filmmaker and that he hasn’t contributed significantly to filmography and made three very good movies. And I don’t even expect him to say ‘thank you’ for having me make it happen and having New Line make it happen. But to think that I, as a functionary in... Read more
2007 Update: It’s been a few years since I’ve seen this 2000 film, and yet I remember moments from it so vividly. Terry and the boy taking a nature walk. The reverend informing Sammy that fornication is a sin. Sammy’s office confrontation with the boss. And yet, I wonder… what has become of Ken Lonergan, who wrote such a delicate, heartfelt screenplay? He was a co-writer on Gangs of New York, and then what? Turning to the IMDB, I learn... Read more
SATURDAY, FEB. 24, 7:30 PM WHAT? It’s time to celebrate! Come and share one of the most exciting evenings of my life… the Through a Screen Darkly book release party. (more…) Read more
This photo of my cat, Mardukas, is featured as the “Pet Photo of the Week” in Seattle Pacific University’s faculty/staff newsletter this week. And the fact of the matter is, quite simply, that he is the most handsome cat on the planet. He looks like a black cat, but he isn’t — he has white fur that is tipped with black. I named him after Jonathan Mardukas, a white-collar criminal played by Charles Grodin in the film Midnight Run. Read more
Thanks to Steven Greydanus for catching this revealing admission from Alfonso Cuarón regarding Children of Men: Filmmaker: Was there a script already written when you came on? Cuarón: There was a script and I read the beginning of it and didn’t like it. I wasn’t interested in making a science fiction film and secondly I wasn’t interested in the environment that the book takes place, all this upper class drama. For me it was more important to explore the thematics... Read more
2oo7 Update: This post, my 2005 first-impression review of 2046, is much too long… I know, I know. But reading through it again I was caught up in Wong Kar-Wai’s work as if for the first time. So I remember why I was so effusive and enthusiastic about it. I may just re-watch a few scenes of it tonight. If you haven’t discovered In the Mood for Love, or this, its glorious sequel, you’re in for an intoxicating treat. (more…) Read more
The Online Film Critics Society… otherwise known as the Rotten Tomatoes gang… have just posted their film awards for 2006. Since I’m a voting member, I’m happy to share them here: (more…) Read more
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