A conversation between Dr. Rob Johnston and Chloé Zhao, the writer/director of Songs My Brothers Taught Me.
It is shameful that what we are left with after this Oscar season is an impression that Selma damaged the “legacy” of LBJ, when in reality, DuVernay’s accomplishment in this film is that she let the people speak. Selma gives voice to those who were in the margins…
Steve Vredenburgh investigates the particular beauty of Ida.
Elijah Davidson interviews A.C. Neel about his feature film, We Grew Up Here.
So many of us are laboring under the pressure of a socio-cultural system that identifies happiness as something that requires us to radically alter ourselves (sometimes even physically). It’s the nightmare of our times…
A conversation about Last Days in the Desert as well as a conversation with the film’s writer/director Rodrigo Garcia.
The top ten films of 2014 as chosen by the film scholars in our community.
The best films of 2014 as chosen by the filmmakers among us.
Here we all are together in community with one another, working together toward our common goal of bearing witness to what God is doing in our lives through cinema and to what God is doing in the world of cinema itself.
Like Inherent Vice’s hippie population refusal to admit the revolution is over, I have been refusing to admit that the reason I didn’t connect as much with PTA’s post-Magnolia is because he is an artist with his own desires, his own ideas, and his own feelings he wants to communicate…
Intellectual tenacity is a sort of good-natured courage in the face of opposition, an unwillingness to let go of ideas without good reason, and certainly an unwillingness to let go of ideas merely because the crowd isn’t in favor.
This week contains Christmas, a holiday that has become as much about obtaining things as anything else. Perhaps Decalogue X will serve as a good reminded to value our relationships with our friends and family over the stuff they give us.
Exodus: Gods and Kings takes surprising liberties with the Biblical narrative.
If God is the ultimate creator, what stops us from being limitless in our storytelling?
Elijah Davidson and Kutter Callaway pit Elf versus The Godfather.
My movie year granted me access to these moments, these feelings that, as Proust would have it, enable me to be “the reader of my own self.”
True passion is on display in their commitment to that research, in the sacrifices they make in every other area of their lives, so that the research might go on. In Christian-ese we would say the passion for their work constitutes a “calling,” the task for which they were born…
Elijah Davidson is joined by A.C. Neel, Jonathan Stoner, and Matthew Aughty to discuss—or rather, argue about—the relative quality of Interstellar.
Our discussion series with Think Christian’s Josh Larsen continues with episode VIII.
Recently, I was reminded that sometimes the best sermons come in the form of a movie as I watched two films – Birdman and Whiplash.
Gary Ingle interviews the screenwriting duo behind Rudderless, Jeff Robison and Casey Twenter.
