Looking Closer
My friend Evi Sztajno, a student at SPU who has begun writing for the student newspaper, just published an interview with Al Gore concerning his documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Congratulations, Evi! Nice work! Read more
My friend Evi Sztajno, a student at SPU who has begun writing for the student newspaper, just published an interview with Al Gore concerning his documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Congratulations, Evi! Nice work! Read more
T Bone Burnett talks to Paste Magazine‘s Steve Turner. Read more
The Independent has fine profile on Bono. There was another element to Bono’s success in the Bush White House. Since they were teenagers he and Edge and Larry, U2’s drummer, have been committed Christians, though they long ago abandoned membership of the hothouse Shalom church to which they belonged in the early days. “He doesn’t lay it on you or try to convert you,” says Geldof, “but it’s at the core of his activism. On rare occasions he talks unashamedly... Read more
Here’s a revealing interview with Phil Keaggy, where he’s saying some of the things about the Christian music industry that I’ve been saying at Looking Closer for a decade or more. This is just a piece of that article… Considering the fact that some Christian music listeners expect a certain number of Jesus references in their songs, where does wordless music fit in with ministry? Keaggy: I don’t know. It’s always made me feel odd when I’d get a Dove... Read more
Well, like I said, I’m done posting about The Da Vinci Dud. But Peter Chattaway has just caught wind of a whole new pile of poo: Sony is starting the engines on their next Dan Brown movie — Angels and Demons. It’s also worth reading Chattaway’s discovery of an applicable G.K. Chesterton quote, and Amy Wellborn’s recent parade of home-run posts. So if you want to read the blogs of folks who haven’t tired of writing about this, there you go. Read more
A rather arresting commentary from the notorious Frank “I Still Hate The Passion of the Christ” Rich. The sad thing is that this time, he right about a lot of things. Problem is, it’s on NYTimes Select, so you may not be able to read it. Here’s a snippet: The Machiavellian mission for the hit-deprived Sony studio was to co-opt conservative religious critics who might depress turnout for a $125-million-plus thriller portraying the Roman Catholic Church as a fraud. To... Read more
If you thought Siskel and Ebert were good at fighting about movies, wait until you see what happened off-camera. Read more
Andy Whitman is going to work for All-Music Guide. Oh. my. stars. Thom Jurek, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, and Andy Whitman… three of my favorite music critics all in the same place. Fantastic. Read more
GreenCine Daily has all of the Cannes links you could hope for, and some very interesting, if somewhat disappointing, reports. DIM LIGHT I loved Aki Kaurismäki’s The Man Without a Past. But according to reviews posted at GreenCine, Kaurismäki’s new film Lights in the Dusk isn’t as easy to love. CEYLAN RETURNS I’m also very surprised to read the disappointed reviews over Ikilmer (Climates), the latest feature by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. His last film, Distant, which I reviewed for The... Read more
Okay, to wrap up the week of “Da Vinci Code” reviews, here’s Steven D. Greydanus: Some Christians have optimistically hoped that The Da Vinci Code might provide a potential opportunity for dialogue and discussion about Jesus with people who might not otherwise be open to such discussions. Yet if anything the film seems calibrated precisely to inoculate viewers against any such discussion — to leave viewers with a skeptical agnosticism about efforts to set the record straight is all part... Read more
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