Film
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Sunday Night Journal — December 4, 2011 Perhaps you’ve noticed that for some time now I haven’t said much on the subject of movies. Part of the explanation for that is that watching movies is something my wife and I tend to do together, and she’s now in graduate school and has far less free…
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Everything in the title above except the question mark is in the title of this piece at Front Porch Republic. I'm not so sure that movies of the 1930s and '40s show us the less-affluent life that's coming our way, but be that as it may, I like the reflections on the quality of those movies. …
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You needn't be. My Ugandan correspondent has notified me that Uncle Benon is back. (Warning: there is a pretty gruesome image near the end, at approximately 1:40.)
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It seems to be a popular rhetorical device these days to describe any opposition to something you favor as a declaration of war against it. The first time I remember hearing it was some twenty years ago, during one of the periodic battles over the National Endowment for the Arts, in which conservatives object to…
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See it if you possibly can. I'm not going to say anything more about it now, partly because I'm still pretty close to speechless, but I'm interested in hearing what others have to say about it. And I suppose we have to allow spoilers to have very much discussion. I did write a Sunday night…
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Last night my wife and I finally got around to seeing this. It's good. I find that I don't really need to modify anything I said last year in a post about Part 1, or back in 2007 after I'd finished reading the book. Moreover, we're planning to go see The Tree of Life Monday night.…
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Weekend Music (and Movie) I admit that I'm posting this music mainly because I wanted to say something about the movie, which I watched in three segments over the past week or so. It's almost three hours long, and I had trouble finding a single stretch of time to watch it. I tend to assume…
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I've been meaning to post a link to this apropos the continuing discussion about films to be used in Francesca's class on Theology and Film. Only, I thought it was Image magazine's list, and didn't recognize it when Craig linked to it by its proper name. Actually I had intended to post it a couple of…
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Only under conditions which are unlikely to be met. I agree with Simon about the war on drugs. I read the other day that Mexican drug gangs, who are in something close to a full-scale war, killing thousands, now have more or less permanent positions as much as fifty miles inside our border. At least we…
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