Movies about Homelessness – Nomadland
An ongoing series combining the two core beliefs that guide all of my writing: (1) people of faith can and should meaningfully address homelessness, and even end it, and (2) film both reflects and shapes culture, and can be a window to the divine in all things. (See Kevin’s website for more on the intersections… Continue reading Movies about Homelessness – Nomadland
Top 10 of 2020: Theophany Staff Pics
The 93rd Academy Awards, airing this coming Sunday, are sure to be the strangest we’ve seen in a long time. (Maybe less dramatic than the 2017 La La Land/Moonlight debacle, but strange nonetheless.) Not only will there be a mix of on-site and beamed-in festivities, but the producers have cryptically suggested that masks will play… Continue reading Top 10 of 2020: Theophany Staff Pics
The Coens for Lent – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The last of nineteen reflections on the Coen Brothers’ filmography and the season of Lent. [View Series] On Holy Saturday, we sit with death. We remember the day that Jesus spends in the grave, “descended into hell” as the creeds say. Meanwhile, his followers on earth were scattered, wondering if any of it had been worth… Continue reading The Coens for Lent – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Coens for Lent – Hail, Caesar!
The eighteenth of nineteen reflections on the Coen Brothers’ filmography and the season of Lent. [View Series] by guest writer Mitch Wiley Hail, Caesar!, a 2016 comedic riff on Hollywood’s Golden Age, may not seem the most suitableLenten viewing in the Coens’ filmography as its arguably one of their breeziest films to date.Despite such levity, the… Continue reading The Coens for Lent – Hail, Caesar!
The Coens for Lent – Inside Llewyn Davis
The seventeenth of nineteen reflections on the Coen Brothers’ filmography and the season of Lent. [View Series] “If it was never new, and it never gets old, then it’s a folk song.” Or maybe it’s just life? Inside Llewyn Davis, the second of two perfect films the Coens have made in this writer’s estimation, is playfully… Continue reading The Coens for Lent – Inside Llewyn Davis
The Coens for Lent – True Grit
The sixteenth of nineteen reflections on the Coen Brothers’ filmography and the season of Lent. [View Series] by guest writer Steven Fekete A light in the distance. A man shot dead on a deserted street. A silhouetted figure rides off in the falling snow. These are the images that the Coen brothers present as True Grit… Continue reading The Coens for Lent – True Grit
The Coens for Lent – A Serious Man
The fifteenth of nineteen reflections on the Coen Brothers’ filmography and the season of Lent. [View Series] by guest writer Corey Vaughan The final moments of A Serious Man play for me, beat by beat, whenever I hear the song “Somebody to Love”. Larry Gopnik getting the ominous phone call from his doctor, the old Jewish… Continue reading The Coens for Lent – A Serious Man
The Coens for Lent – Burn After Reading
The fourteenth of nineteen reflections on the Coen Brothers’ filmography and the season of Lent. [View Series] by guest writer Kevin Harrington-Bain “And now with the cell phones? Pretty soon they’re gonna know where everyone is. Everyone. At any given moment.” Harry And so George Clooney’s prophetic career continues. But this particular oracle from Burn After… Continue reading The Coens for Lent – Burn After Reading
The Coens for Lent – No Country for Old Men
The thirteenth of nineteen reflections on the Coen Brothers’ filmography and the season of Lent. [View Series] by guest writer Tyler Berkley You can’t stop what’s coming. It ain’t all waiting on you. That’s vanity. No Country for Old Men has the audacious honor of depicting the Lenten season’s sober parade of mortality. As an aging… Continue reading The Coens for Lent – No Country for Old Men
The Coens for Lent – Tuileries (from Pairs Je’Taime)
The twelfth of nineteen reflections on the Coen Brothers’ filmography and the season of Lent. [View Series] by guest writer Michael Shepherd There is a certain comfort in being a tourist. We can plan our itineraries and focus on seeing the highlights of a new locale. We temporarily venture into new terrain, captivated by the people… Continue reading The Coens for Lent – Tuileries (from Pairs Je’Taime)
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