AFIFest: Oh, Canada – Final Testimony
“This is my last prayer and, whether you believe in God or not, you don’t lie when you pray.” Paul...
Tag: based on a novel
Conclave – Intriguing intrigue
“The Church is not tradition. The Church is not the past. The Church is what we do next.” Imagine...
Recon – Moral Questions of War
?I have had enough.? How should we think of war? Is it a romantic, idealized story of heroics? Is...
Native Son – 1951 Film Still Speaks
?Fear has haunted Thomas to the very end.? Richard Wright?s 1940 novel Native Son is one of the...
I’m Thinking of Ending Things – And Thinking and Thinking
How best to describe I?m Thinking of Ending Things? The easy answer is that it?s a Charlie Kaufman...
Transit – Just Passing Through (Or Not)
There is an old gospel song, ?This world is not my home, I?m just a-passing through?. A bit of...
La Religieuse (The Nun) – Restored Classic, Restored Culture War?
Jacques Rivette?s La Religieuse (The Nun) was the center of controversy in France. Banned for over a year by the Minister of Information in 1965, the film was a battleground of the culture wars of the day.
The Wife – Support, Loyalty, and Resentment
This may be the perfect time for The Wife to find its way to the screen. It seems almost tailor made for the Time?s Up movement. . . . This film truly speaks to that issue in a clear and loud voice.
The Sense of an Ending – Unhistoric History
I have a t-shirt that reads ?The older I get the better I was.? That sentiment immediately came to mind when I watched The Sense of an Ending. It is a story of memory of past times, but we see that those memories may not be a reliable recounting of what happened.
The Great Gilly Hopkins – Finding Family
The Great Gilly Hopkins is a story about the meaning of family. [It is] based on the long-popular YA book by Katherine Paterson (which won a National Book Award and a Newbery Honor).