soul food movies

films with a spiritual flavour

Saturday, September 29, 2012

viff | soul food options

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Lots of nuns and priests and contemptible Evangelicals, but maybe not too much Soul Food among the Religion, Spirituality & Myth sel...
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Monday, September 24, 2012

viff | late | jason goode

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There's a day this past spring that Jason Goode won't forget. He was at the Cannes Festival showing his latest film when he got word...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

books | the ethical vision of clint eastwood

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This just in from IMAGE Update   Though he may be controversial as a political personality, there is no doubt that Clint Eastwood is a...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

viff | beyond the hills

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Could so easily be yet another "Catholic = bad" film. But the Film Comment comment suggests it's maybe more nuanced than that....

viff | virgin tales

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The "just enough rope to hang themselves" inclines one to think this won't be exactly the "objective and measured examina...

viff | apparition

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Seems likely not to be Soul Food ("Sandoval is less interested in questions of faith than in the issue of good governance" - ooh, ...

viff | jesus hospital

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Jesus Hospital (South Korea, 2012, 91 mins, HDCAM) Oct 03 09:30 pm Granville 1 Oct 05 03:30 pm Pacific Cinematheque Remember Whan...

viff | consuming spirits

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It's not immediately apparent why this film is listed among the festival's Religion, Spirituality & Myth heading, but...  I'...
Monday, September 17, 2012

red hook summer

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"Spike Lee’s new Brooklyn-set film, “Red Hook Summer,” which is about a boy from Atlanta who spends the hot months with his grandfat...
Wednesday, September 05, 2012

sep 19 | william kurelek | the maze | cinematheque

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William Kurelek was a Canadian painter whose Christian faith survived severe childhood trauma and resulting mental illness. His Northern Nat...
Saturday, August 18, 2012

viff 2012 | beyond the hills

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from Cannes... BEYOND THE HILLS (După dealuri) Romania/France/Belgium | Dir: Cristian Mungiu A nun is torn between her devotion...
Friday, August 17, 2012

living pictures passion play

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Lancashire workers enjoy the ‘wakes week’ holiday in this early film from travelling filmmakers Mitchell & Kenyon. This short film wa...
Thursday, August 16, 2012

aug 17 + 18 | the mill & the cross | vancity

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extraordinary soul food. previous post from viff 2011. THE MILL AND THE CROSS vancity  aug 17 8:45 | aug 18 6:45 Poland, 2011, 35m...
Wednesday, August 01, 2012

sight & sound | 2012 poll results

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The top fifty, selected by 846 critics, academics, programmers and distributors. All the details on the once-a-decade poll can be found at t...

sight & sound | 2002 poll results

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In about 15 minutes, Sight & Sound magazine will begin announcing the results of their once-a-decade poll of critics and directors - cer...
Saturday, July 28, 2012

higher ground | carolyn s. briggs

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Higher Ground is a 2011 film that examines a woman's experiences in a slightly-post-Jesus-People church community through the seventies ...
Friday, July 27, 2012

watching for... into the abyss

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July 2012: currently showing on Canadian Netflix   Nine years after the murder of three people in Montgomery, Texas, in 2001, Werner...
Saturday, July 21, 2012

notes on margaret

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The DVD is out, including two cuts. The one that was in theatres, of which the director approved, and a second cut by the director himself....
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

the amazing spider-man | anthony lane

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The first “Spider-Man” came out in 2002, followed by its obligatory sequels in 2004 and 2007. If you are a twenty-year-old male of unvarnis...
Monday, July 16, 2012

jason goode + dylan jenkinson | cannes

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DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA was the first full-length play Jason Goode had directed. So how's this - he received word of his Jessie Rich...
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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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