soul food movies

films with a spiritual flavour

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Jan Kiesser

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A couple years ago, Pacific Theatre did a themed season, "PT Goes To The Movies." It featured a special "Stage & Screen...
Sunday, April 04, 2010

Easter Double Feature: Last Temptation / Passion

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The Conversations (at Slant.com ) is a monthly feature in which Jason Bellamy and Ed Howard discuss a wide range of cinematic subjects. This...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

Fifty Best Living Directors | Paste Magazine

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Paste Magazine The Fifty Best Living Directors 1. Martin Scorsese | Raging Bull 2. Jean-Luc Godard | Breathless 3. Steven Spielberg | Schind...
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Friday, March 12, 2010

steven soderbergh | oscar acceptance speech, 2001

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“I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating. I don’t care if it’s a book, a film, a painting, a dance, a piece of theater,...

New Yorker cover | best picture nominees

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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Videomaticademy Awards!

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Foxes are Fantastic and Prawns are Prime a t Videomatica.ca 's 1 1 th Alternative Oscars While Hollywood was busy showcasing lengthy ...
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Saturday, March 06, 2010

GENTLEMEN BRONCOS "a work of visionary inspiration with religious overtones"?!

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New Yorker's Richard Brody is rare among film critics in finding things to praise about GENTLEMEN BRONCOS, the third film from Mormon fi...
Thursday, March 04, 2010

Richard Brody on LORNA'S SILENCE

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In LORNA'S SILENCE (Sony), the Belgian directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, shooting on location in Liège, use symbolic and theatrica...
Monday, March 01, 2010

A&F 100: 2010 Edition!

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In 2004, 2005 and 2006 the Arts & Faith conversation board created a list of 100 "spiritually significant" films. Last year th...
Friday, February 19, 2010

Mar 12-14 | City of Angels Film Festival | Los Angeles

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Nice line-up at this year's City Of Angels Fest in L.A. Not mentioned in the note below: Lourdes (Jessica Hausner), Seraphine (Martin...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

Watching for... THE END TIME (UK, Norman Stone)

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Norman Stone is a well-thought-of director with a ton of BBC Film credits, whose work includes the first screen version of SHADOWLANDS (pref...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Scorsese on Rossellini

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(Originally posted November 27 2006, reposted with swell vintage poster images to celebrate the release of the new Criterion release of Ross...
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Monday, February 15, 2010

Other Rossellini resources

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(Originally posted November 27, 2006) Summer 2006, the Flickerings sidebar to the Cornerstone music festival showcased a number of Rossellin...
Friday, February 12, 2010

REVANCHE | new Criterion release!

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Wonderful news! One of the best films of last year is new on Criterion - it arrives at Videomatica February 16. Here's a link to the o...
Thursday, February 11, 2010

Not Watching For... AT JESUS' SIDE

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Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Criterion Out Of Print Sale: Diary of a Country Priest, Fallen Idol...

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A number of Criterion titles are going out of print, the StudioCanal catalogue, which is going over to Lions gate at the end of March, with ...
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Saturday, January 30, 2010

More on THE BOOK OF ELI (and even AVATAR)

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Killing to protect the Bible is hardly a new idea. Or a Biblical one. It's THE ROAD with a comic book sensibility and confused religious...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Harvey Weinstein and THE THIN BLUE LINE

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(Available at Videomatica )
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I'm an actor, writer, and director, the founding artistic director (now 'emeritus') of Vancouver's Pacific Theatre. I've got a podcast, Soul Food Ghost Light, a late-night pirate radio show where I play exactly what I want. My blogs include Date Movies (not what you think), and Oblations.
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