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Arts & Faith Lists:
2020 Top 100 — #50
Federico Fellini’s Nights of Cabiria (1957) transcends the well-worn cliche of the golden-hearted prostitute. The film stars Fellini’s wife and constant collaborator, Giuletta Masina, as a woman named Maria Ceccarelli but known to everyone in her social strata as Cabiria. Cabiria was pushed into prostitution by her destitute mother when she was young and beautiful, and her…
“You gotta laugh, ain’t ya sweetheart? Else you’d cry.” This observation from working-class Londoner Cynthia Rose Purley (Brenda Blethyn) is a perfect summary of the tone running through Mike Leigh’s Palme d’Or-winning melodramatic masterpiece. A slice-of-life portrayal of broken individuals navigating the complexity of their familial ties, Secrets & Lies perfectly captures the quiet intensity of ordinary suffering. Both comic…
Steely with conviction, luminous with wisdom and wit, Fred Zinnemann’s impeccable film of Robert Bolt’s play about the life of Thomas More explores what defines a man, or what is left to a man who has no defining center that cannot be bought or coerced. Successful, urbane, gregarious, ridiculously talented and accomplished, Thomas More was the…
— Review Coming Directed by: Joshua Oppenheimer Anonymous Christine Cynn Produced by: Anne Köhncke Signe Byrge Sørensen Michael Uwemedimo Written by: Music by: Cinematography by: Anonymous Carlos Arango de Montis Lars Skree Editing by: Release Date: 2012 Running Time: 117 Language: Indonesian, English Arts & Faith Lists: 2020 Top 100 — #73
Appreciation coming from Darren Hughes. Directed by: William A. Wellman Produced by: Written by: Wilson Mizner Robert Lord Gerald Beaumont Lillie Hayward John Francis Larkin Music by: Cinematography by: Sidney Hickox Editing by: James B. Morley Release Date: 1932 Running Time: 73 Language: English Arts & Faith Lists: 2020 Top 100 — #43
To witness The Passion of Joan of Arc is to glimpse the soul of a saint in her hour of trial. The film is more than a dramatization, more than a biopic, more than a documentary: It is a spiritual portrait, almost a mystical portrait, of a Christ-like soul sharing in the sufferings of Christ. At the…