soul food movies

They're as old as we are!  (Just a little older, actually. Pacific Theatre is in it's 25th season, but our actual birthday will be n...

PARABLE (1964, USA, Rolf Forsberg) Commissioned by the New York City Protestant Council of Churches for their 1964 World's Fair pavilion...

STALKED (1968, USA, Rolf Forsberg) Flesh. In motion. Flesh. Illogical. Unpredictable. To me, a vastness of fools. Fools to be exploited, not...

ANTKEEPER (1966, USA, Rolf Forsberg) His wife helped found Second City, Rolf made distinctly weird short films for the Lutherans. Here a gar...

Criterion is changing websites, and they're selling all their in-stock DVDs at a 40% reduction. (Frankly, I'm guessing it has more ...

Given my new love affair with New York, and my long-time relationship with the theatre, I'm stoked about Charlie Kaufman's SYNECDOCH...

Steve Plitt was involved on the tech side during our earliest days in the 12th Avenue theatre. His focus since then has been film, including...

Catch me up! Since heading for NYC September 11 (no, that wasn't me, that was some other guys. Different September 11...) I've been ...

Terry Teachout and filmmaker David Koepp bring their insights into A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, in the Wall Street Journal and Film Comment respec...

Thanks to IMAGE Update for word about DANTE'S INFERNO: THE MOVIE, which toured small festivals through the first half of 2007 then went ...

'Tempest' cast includes Helen Mirren Jeremy Irons, Djimon Hounsou among other stars cast By Borys Kit, Hollywood Reporter Julie Taym...

I watched a pleasing film the other night, something of a genteel noir by way of Douglas Sirk. The noir comes from " Five Roundabouts T...

Sep 26 2008: Spike Lee's MIRACLE AT ST ANNA opens

Darrel Manson recc: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (release in Sept.)

I wrote film criticism for Christianity Today Movies for its first few years, and while I had to let that go for time reasons, I still love ...

Nifty Wim Wenders profile in this issue of IMAGE Update ... Wim Wenders IMAGE Journal Artist Of The Month: September 2008 That one of Wim We...

ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES (1938, USA, Michael Curtiz, John Wexley / Warren Duff screenplay) Let's go and say a prayer for a boy who couldn...

ANGELS OF THE STREETS ("Les Anges du péché" "Angels of Sin" 1943, France, Robert Bresson, screenplay with Jean Giradoux ...

ANGELA (1995, USA, Rebecca Miller) Debut full-length film by Arthur's girl concerns ten- and six-year-old sisters who turn to strange hy...

ANGEL AND THE BADMAN (1947, USA, James Edward Grant) Badman is John Wayne, angel a fetching Quaker woman who nurses the gunslinger to health...