soul food movies

One of the great pleasures of September - compensating in part for summer's end and the return to work - is the Vancouver International ...

Okay. A couple posts ago I mentioned The Movie Discovery Of The Summer.  But I didn't mention what that discovery might be. Public lib...

I've always loved film. For about a decade - let's say 1997 to 2007 - it was my Big Non-Theatre Obsession. (I cycle through those...

SUPERMAN (1978, USA, Richard Donner, screenplay Mario Puzo, David & Leslie Newman, Robert Benton, Tom Mankiewicz) SUPERMAN II (1980, US...

Not straight up "Soul Food" here, but a film that fascinates me nevertheless. THE great This American Life episode of all time has...

Quite extraordinary, really. SON OF MAN is my favourite Jesus film. It played VIFF a few years ago, and I attended both screenings, and sear...

Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ  1925 silent film with live piano score by Sara Davis Buechner Pacific Cinematheque Special Event June...

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sale page Promo Code = FLASHY Here's a batch of Soul Food picks you might want to check out.  Many favourites here... Au Hasard...

IMDb: Father Joseph Mohr, a newly appointed priest in the town of Oberndorf (near Salzburg), meets the beautiful prostitute Magdalene. He...

I just watched The Wrong Man. Very fine little film. My friend Doug Cummings recommended it to me years ago, in the context of my Soul Fo...

Good choice, Cineplex. The movie that bumped Citizen Kane from top slot on the Sight & Sound once-a-decade poll, just this past summer....

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Lots of Soul Food in Mumford & Sons.  Roll away your stone, I'll roll away mine Together we can see what we will find... Cause yo...

Richard Brody: "In some ways, the Hitchcock film for people who don’t like Hitchcock films. The Kafkaesque nightmare of a man who...

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

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...

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

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