Review coming. Directed by: Robert Bresson Produced by: Written by: George Bernanos Robert Bresson Music by: Jean-Jacques Grünenwald Cinematography by: Léonce-Henri Burel Editing by: Paulette Robert Release Date: 1951 Running Time: 95 Language: French Arts & Faith Lists: 2005 Top 100 — #4 2006 Top Read More …
Across the 16 years that Arts & Faith has been making Top 100 lists, Japanese director Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) has always been well-represented. This film has made every list, while earlier iterations have included Rashomon, Dersu Uzala, and/or Ran. Had we not imposed a “one film per director” rule, Read More …
“Do the right thing” is a simple phrase that can be easier said than done at times. As a child my parents would tell me to “do the right thing”. They’d also ask me “what’s the right thing to do?”, in order to guide me Read More …
Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne—popularly known as “the Dardenne brothers”—make genuine cinematic parables. By “parable” I mean films about ordinary or mundane circumstances which have no ostensible religious or sacred element, yet prove to provoke a sense of the transcendent, what philosopher Paul Ricoeur Read More …
Appreciation coming from Russ L. Directed by: Martin Scorsese Produced by: Written by: Jay Cocks Martin Scorsese Shûsaku Endô Music by: Kathryn Kluge Kim Allen Kluge Cinematography by: Rodrigo Prieto Editing by: Thelma Schoonmaker Release Date: 2016 Running Time: 161 Language: English, Japanese, Latin Arts Read More …
Can Christians and Muslims coexist in peace today? Xavier Beauvois’ sublime fact-based drama about seven French Trappist monks in northern Algeria in the 1990s during the Algerian Civil War explores the question without offering a definitive answer. Led by Dom Christian (Lambert Wilson), the monks Read More …
“Babette can cook.” It’s a seemingly simple sentence offered as an offhand suggestion in a letter to Danish sisters Martine and Filippa (Birgitte Federspiel and Bodil Kjer) as one way an unknown refugee from France could help them should they take her in. And yet, Read More …
How does one adequately describe a poem, a prayer, and a visual odyssey in mere prose? This is the challenge when attempting to capture the cinema of Terrence Malick in words. A work of cosmic praise and lament, Malick’s 2011 Palme d’Or-winning film, The Tree of Read More …
In the spirituality of the Christian East, icons are sometimes described as “windows into heaven.” Even when they depict earthly events, their stylized approach is meant to evoke transcendent realities. Such transcendence in art is both the subject and the method of Andrei Tarkovsky’s haunting, Read More …
From writer and director Chloé Zhao, adapted from a book written by Jessica Bruder, Nomadland shows us real, honest stories about people simply being people. Depicted with candidness are the highs and lows, the pain and peace, and the turmoil and tranquility of everyday life. We see Read More …