Looking Closer
My favorite film, Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire, has been re-made once before… as a forgettable, cheezy American romance called City of Angels. Now, it’s being remade again, night after night, onstage. (more…) Read more
My favorite film, Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire, has been re-made once before… as a forgettable, cheezy American romance called City of Angels. Now, it’s being remade again, night after night, onstage. (more…) Read more
Great. Now the Weinstein Company is developing a faith-based filmmaking line. Since the Contemporary Christian Music has done so much to sidetrack Christian musicians so their music doesn’t accidentally end up in arenas where the world might hear it… why not create Contemporary Christian Cinema? That way, faith-related films can play to those who already agree with their messages, and to those who don’t want to bother with the challenges of mainstream movies. Meanwhile, mainstream audiences can put even more... Read more
With each passing week, it continues to blow my mind that there is nobody out there able to talk sense into a television network and organize the return of Joss Whedon’s Firefly. (more…) Read more
My interview with Mike Rich, the guy who wrote The Rookie, Radio, and The Nativity Story, is now posted on the website for Response Magazine. I’ve interviewed a lot of writers and filmmakers. Few have been as eloquent as Rich. It was a pleasure to talk with him. (more…) Read more
“The National Board of Review” – impressive name, no credibility At Hollywood Elsewhere today, Jeffrey Wells links to Roger Friedman’s bit about the National Board of (not-so-credible) Review. Who are they to be naming the Best Films of 2006? Find out. And speaking of reviewers… (more…) Read more
This week’s Film Forum contains dangerous material. Christians are giving mixed reviews to The Nativity Story. Some of them love it, some of them like it, some of them don’t like it. Could it be that a movie might fall short of greatness, even if the story that it tells is the Greatest Story Ever Told? Could it be that a Christian might still have misgivings about a work of art, even if that art is about Jesus? Or is... Read more
I bring you tidings of great joy which shall be for all the music lovers: The New York Press has an article about the new Over the Rhine Christmas album! (more…) Read more
The final cut of Terrence Malick’s The New World was not finished until January 2006. It was not shown to critics in Seattle until January 18, 2006. The cut that was shown to Oscar voters in a rather rushed attempt to get an Oscar nomination was not the finished film. And yet, critics everywhere are counting The New World as a 2005 picture. (more…) Read more
I’ll be meeting Alfonso Cuarón on Monday, and I’ve got all kinds of questions for him. (more…) Read more
The National Board of Review, a secretive and suspicious society of film reviewers, have come up with their Top Ten of 2006. Their best picture pick? Letters from Iwo Jima, Clint Eastwood’s follow-up to Flags of Our Fathers. (more…) Read more
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