Taxi Driver suggests that all those other things are products of Travis/America’s deep-seated loneliness. In the same way, church can be about other things too, but those things should be cast in light of our neediness. There’s a hole in me. I believe there’s hole in you. That’s what we have in common. Let’s gather around that.
We’re excited to announce the Reel Spirituality Community Top 10 Films of 2015.
Exactly how do we bring our faith into dialogue with the culture without losing who we are? How can we become holy in a culture that often points out the opposite? What type of anthropology and spirituality is needed for today?
My question was: How would a man be shaped by that experience? What’s going on in the mind of somebody who has the will, the endurance, and the resilience to survive? What makes people survive and fight? What is that? And how would a man be transformed and shaped by nature?
Bazin had struggled his entire life to find a way to integrate his many different academic interests, even to the point of abandoning his studies at the Sorbonne. The cinema provided this spiritual and intellectual center – and a base from which to think deeply about the relationships between art, culture, and history.
We’re watching and talking about the Mission: Impossible films one by one.
This year, we’ll be changing what we feature in a few key areas and continuing production unabated in the others.
We’re watching the Mission: Impossible films one by one.
We’re watching the Mission: Impossible films one at a time.
Babette’s Feast is a movie about the grace that none of us deserve but which all of us receive anyway, grace given that the giver might be graceful, not necessarily so that we might feel graced…
I am not sure what holy extravagance is at Christmas in America, but the biblical scenes of Jesus’ birth and the life of the monks of Tibhirine tell us that hope lies not in easy aloofness but abiding, if disconcerting, solidarity. We certainly cannot pretend not to be part of the problem crystallized in the American Christmas.
We’re watching through the Mission: Impossible series one by one.
There will be joy, because all that is disheartening will be undone. We are offered joy now and told to rejoice now because that “undoing of death” has already begun and will be completed soon
We’re watching and talking through the Mission: Impossible films one at a time.
One of the most moving moments in the entire series occurs in Catching Fire, as Woody Harrelson’s character Haymitch somberly points out, “Nobody ever wins the Games…”
All the world wants peace, but God’s paths to peace are often different than ours.
If the film is about another first century, Judean revolutionary named Brian, is it still a Jesus movie?
Both Bambi and Magnolia invite us to wake up during this Advent season.
The Passion of the Christ is one of the most financially successful Jesus movies ever made. Why?
What makes a good Jesus movie? We’re watching King of Kings and The Gospel According to St. Matthew to find out.
Is it possible to make a good Jesus movie? We’re tackling that question in our latest podcast series.