Hi folks, I am migrating my blog to WordPress – if I can! http://sisterrose.wordpress.com/ AOL is discontinuing its JOURNAL service at the end of this month!   Tags: Religulous the Movie; SisterRose’s blog aoljpictureUpload, aoljpictureUpload_1 Read more

As many of you know, FIREPROOF opened this past weekend. My review is available at the St. Anthony Messenger website: http://americancatholic.org/Messenger/Oct2008/Eye_On_Entertainment.asp#F3 Kirk Cameron in FIREPROOF I have seen several other reviews and the emphasis is on how the film deals with a Christian marriage on the brink of divorce and the causes: lack of communication, selfishness, etc. But the strength of this film is its willingness to look at the impact of pornography on a marriage. No one wants to... Read more

Here’s my theory about the film that opened the Venice International Film Festival in late August (I posted something about this film earlier). The Coen Brothers were sitting around one day, shooting the breeze, basking in the impending glow of an Oscar after working so hard on NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, thinking of the political landscape and wondering what kind of mischief they might make between the US, its citizens and Russia before the election – with as little... Read more

The 2008 – 2009 MASTER TEACHER IN MEDIA LITERACY certification course is set to begin on September 20th at the Pauline Center for Media Studies, 3908 Sepulveda Blvd.,  Culver City, CA. Full details and a registration form are available at www.PaulineCMS.org or you can obtain a form at the Pauline Book & Media Center, 3908 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City, CA. 90230. Since 2007 more than 30 catechists, teachers, and pastoral ministers have been certified. This certification is recognized by the... Read more

  The SIGNIS Jury has awarded its Grand Prize  to Kathryn Bigelow’s anti-war film THE HURT LOCKER. According to the jury’s statement, the motivation for this choice is the filmmaker’s uncompromising approach to the Iraq war and its consequences seen through the experience of the bomb diffusion specialists for whom war is an addiction rather than a cause. “The film challenges the audience’s view of war in general and the current war in particular because it demonstrates the struggle between... Read more

Last Day at the Venice Film Festival   Well, almost the last day. It is Friday afternoon. There was to have been a screening last night … The Seed of Disconent … an Italian sex comedy, but the print didn,t arrive on time for the 7pm screening, so I missed it as there was no way I was going to a 10.30pm screening. The other members of the jury who did go told me the film didn-t meet our criteria... Read more

Nuit de chien   This stylistic theatrical (as on the stage) film is a walk on the dark side of politics where everyone must make a choice. And everyone dies, the point is when. The theme is political manipulation in a an imagined fascist state. For me, it was not so easy to watch. But then I had the pleasure of meeting one of the executive producers who came to the ecumenical round-table yesterday on the human and spiritual values... Read more

Tuesday, September 2   Teza   This is the first film I have ever seen by an Ethiopian filmmaker. It tells the story of a young man, Teza, who is caught up in the Marxist revolution that replaced Haile Selassie around 1970. He is sent to study medicine in East Germany, and then returns in 1980 and finally in 1990. It is a very long film (it could have used a better editor) and for the most part, artfully made. Although... Read more