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Arts & Faith Lists:
2005 Top 100 — #15
2006 Top 100 — #21
2020 Top 100 — #53
Review coming. Directed by: Luis Buñuel Produced by: Federico Amérigo Manuel Barbachano Ponce Written by: Julio Alejandro Luis Buñuel Benito Pérez Galdós Emilio Carballido Music by: Rodolfo Halffter Cinematography by: Gabriel Figueroa Editing by: Carlos Savage Release Date: 1959 Running Time: 94 Language: Spanish Arts & Faith Lists: 2005 Top 100 — #47 2006 Top…
“I feel like it should mean nothing or everything,” Travis says of the Christianity that he sees professed by others and lived by Martin, “and I can’t get to either place.” This is Martin Bonner is the rare recent film where Christian characters talk like Christians I know. Martin has been hurt by the church….
In Close-Up, Abbas Kiarostami retells the true story of the trial of Hossein Sabzian who fraudulently convinced a family that he was the famous film director, Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The entire incident comes about in a seemingly innocent way; however, the moral struggle surrounding the deception involves a complex wrestling with themes of identity, belonging, forgiveness and repentance. Sabzian is arrested, imprisoned,…
Whirring helicopter blades slowly dissolve into the rotating ceiling fan of Capt. Willard’s Saigon apartment, as he drinks himself into oblivion. Lt. Col. Kilgore blasts Wagner from his infantry helicopters as they decimate a Viet Cong village. The mad genius, Col. Kurtz, sets himself up as a god, deep in the jungles of Cambodia. These…
If, as they say, writing about music is like dancing about architecture, then how does one describe a film like Koyaanisqatsi (1983), which has no actors, no dialogue, and no plot, but consists instead of nothing but music and images (some of which, incidentally, do happen to revolve around architecture)? Well, we can begin by looking at…
Review coming. Directed by: Peter Weir Produced by: David Bombyk Edward S. Feldman Wendy Stites Written by: William Kelley Pamela Wallace Earl W. Wallace Music by: Maurice Jarre Cinematography by: John Seale Editing by: Thom Noble Release Date: 1985 Running Time: 112 Language: English Arts & Faith Lists: 2020 Top 100 — #77