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Tag Archives: religious movies
Ebertfest 2015 Final Day: Ida, The Motel Life, 99 Homes
On Friday I moderated the Girlhood panel. On Saturday, I participated in the panel for Paweł Pawlikowski’s Oscar-winning Ida, and then right after that, I moderated the QA for the next film, The Motel Life. The funniest thing was that … Continue reading
Review: Against the Sun (2015)
I reviewed Against the Sun for Rogerebert.com. I have a fascination with survivalist stories, human beings making it out of horrendous encounters with Mother Nature, or whatever. Against the Sun is the true story of three downed airmen in WWII … Continue reading
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Tagged religious movies, reviews, Supernatural, survival drama, war, war movies, WWII
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Tonight! Polish Filmmakers NYC Present Ida
Tonight I will be participating in a panel discussion at Columbia University about Pawel Pawlikowski’s brilliant film Ida (Wrote a bit about it here. So far, it’s the film of the year for me, albeit with some pretty stiff competition. … Continue reading
Review: Ida (2014); directed by Pawel Pawlikowski
Ida is one of those miraculous films where the images on the screen are so startling, so unique, so themselves, that the visuals take on a whole subterranean level of meaning, coursing beneath the actual plot. The power of the … Continue reading
Review: Son of God (2014)
Son of God was already seen as part of the History Channel’s highly-rated “The Bible” mini-series last year, and now the Jesus-part of it is coming to theaters everywhere. My review is now up at Roger Ebert.
Finally: Malick’s Tree of Life
This review originally appeared on Capital New York. Terrence Malick’s Palme d’Or winning Tree of Life is the story of three young brothers growing up in 1950s Texas, told in flashback from the perspective of one of the grown sons … Continue reading