Our exploration of what a “cinema of the saints” might look like commences with Saint Joan of Arc.
What is a “Cinema of the Saints?”
Dr. Rob Johnston was recently the guest of Dallas Theological Seminary for their second annual Arts Week. Over the course of four days, Dr. Johnston delivered four lectures outlining the essential elements of his approach to culture.
At the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, a programmer, a critic, and a scholar discussed the different ways they watch films.
I don’t mean to draw a strict parallel between Kurt Cobain and Jeremiah, but I do have to wonder how we would react if he were to walk into our churches today.
Flight Into Egypt: An Icon in Motion, a short, art-film based on Matthew 2:13-15
Senior year of John Hughes High. We’re hitting the town with Ferris Bueller behind the wheel.
Junior year of John Hughes High. We’re hazarding to encounter the deepest desires of a couple of teenage boys in Weird Science.
An interview with Karen Covell of the Hollywood Prayer Network
Sophomore year of John Hughes High. Join us in detention to talk about The Breakfast Club.
It’s Freshman year of John Hughes High. We’re talking about 16 Candles.
These feelings – which are, of course, part of the point of cinema and all art at its best: to help us live better – may spill over into the intuition that we are not just being understood, but that we understand…
This week, we’re sharing a conversation between Dr. Kathy Bruner, Assistent Professor of Commuication, Taylor University, and Alexandra Shiva and Bari Pearlman, two of the filmmakers behind How to Dance in Ohio.
For all of the success and acclaim that the show has garnered, we must wonder why this particular show has had such an impact on communities, and what is our response as we look to engage theologically with this artifact?
We finish our discussion of Kieslowski’s colors with Red.
All of these activities are also associated with learning, it’s true—that’s why attentiveness is also listed along with other intellectual virtues. But attentiveness also enriches our relationships with one another and with God.
We continue our discussion of Kieslowski’s Three Colors with White.
Jesus is turning over tables on Caiaphas’ (Rufus Sewell) front porch. The press core of which I am a part is sitting in plastic chairs on the temple steps out of the camera’s line-of-sight, of course, but very near Mr. Sewell, watching the action from above. Caiaphas is angry.
The English writer-director Mike Leigh is one of the most humane filmmakers. His movies are less seen than they should be, and it’s an occasion of genuine joy that he has a new one. Mr. Turner, the biographical portrait of the great English artist, is something very rare – I think it might be a perfect film.
The first in our three-part discussion of Kieslowski’s Three Colors trilogy.
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