soul food movies

My second contribution to Filmwell is now up. Notes on the Dardenne retrospective at Lincoln Centre, NYC, with lots of links to things Dard...

"There is much to savor in The Late Film , a BAM series of movies made toward the close—or the climax—of their directors’ careers. Of a...

"Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1961 drama, based on a novel by Béatrix Beck, is a strange hybrid and one of the most peculiarly mutilated film...

A few things that may have some Soul Food content... FIERCE LIGHT: WHEN SPIRIT MEETS ACTION is at the Fifth Avenue, filmmaker Velcrow Ripper...

Last week I told you about Filmwell, a new film site involving Jeffrey Overstreet and some other of my favourite film/faith writers. This we...

Soul Food Movies friend Jeffrey Overstreet called to let me know about Filmwell , a movie site featuring writers Mike Hertenstein ( Flickeri...

Off the top of my head, Velcrow Ripper is a Vancouver filmmaker who travels the world making documentaries about spiritual stuff. SCARED SAC...

I've not seen this, but judging from the descriptions, it's maybe a thematic companion piece to SUNSHINE CLEANING? "Set in 1980...

WISE BLOOD (1979, USA, John Huston, Benedict & Michael Fitzgerald from Flannery O'Connor novel) "That belief in Christ is to so...

haven't time to dig into it right now, but wanted you to know about TROUBLE THE WATER before it's gone. seems to me there's a go...

A PSA From E1 Entertainment Canada   ADORATION  opens May 8: Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal Winner of the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the 2008 Ca...

After messing around with the new edition of Steven Jay Schneider's " 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die ," I started com...

"The second fact to remember is a certain privilege almost analogous to monopoly, which belongs of necessity to things like the theatre...

Ken is a local animator who also writes for Hollywood Jesus. Ken wrote the book on stop-motion animation - quite literally. Until I add cont...

First Edition : 2003 Reprint : 2004 Bookstore the other day, saw the new edition of Steven Jay Schneider's "1001 Movies You Must Se...

David Denby: In HUNGER, the British video artist Steve McQueen has made an imposing feature-length movie that attempts to equal the discipli...

SF One church to go to this Easter Weekend is the Imax at Canada Place: U23D, services nightly at 8pm (Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Easter Su...

Nathan Lane: There are two stories here, one framed inside the other - a very nineteenth-century device. In the outer on, a picture-framer...

2009 Faith & Film Critics Circle Award Winners Most Significant Exploration of Spiritual Themes Winner: Silent Light "Cycling image...

No Scientology, but not much Christian faith either. Dietrich Bonhoeffer doesn't even get a walk-on! A regrettable compromise. "Bef...