Posts Tagged ‘Film’

Soup Kitchens and Rock and Roll Healings

Sympathy for Delicious considers that universal fist-shake, “why me?”

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Love and Liberation in Of Gods and Men

French director Xavier Beauvois dips his brush in a rich palette of sound, color, image, and silence to paint a visible likeness of the interior lives of seven Trappist monks who perished in the Algerian civil war of the 1990s.

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Insecurity, Creativity, and Superiority

The Social Network inspires complicated questions of why we create and how we measure our own worth and morality.

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Our House: An Interview with Greg King

Sarah Hanssen talks with Greg King about his new documentary, Our House, which explores an intentional Christian community in an abandoned warehouse-turned-homestead for the chronically homeless and recovering addicts in Brooklyn.

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An Interview with
Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler

Filmmakers – and sisters – Sarah and Emily Kunstler talk with Sarah Hanssen about their new documentary and their father’s fight for justice.

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Analyzing Up In the Air

Up In The Air gets so many of our modern conundrums right that it’s hard not to classify the film as a tragedy, even with some great laughs.

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Precious, or The Blind Side?

Two films with similar settings, but very different outlooks on success, help us examine our own ideas about privilege, hard work, and what makes us feel valued.

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