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Grace and Modernism in "Journey to Italy"
May 9, 2013 | Clint Cullum
Take it for what it’s worth, but speaking as a bachelor, if there is a greater movie about marriage than Roberto Rossellini’s Journey to Italy (1954) floating around out there in filmdom, then I haven’t seen …
John Huston's "Wise Blood"
April 28, 2013 | Clint Cullum
Periodically at my church, St. James the Apostle Episcopal Church, I host an evening in which I show a film and then lead a discussion afterwards focusing on the finer points of film artistry and …
Terrence Malick’s “To the Wonder”
April 26, 2013 | Anthony Parisi 1
In The Tree of Life, director Terrence Malick crafted a grandiose yet personal theodicy through a family story against the cosmic backdrop of creation and redemption. His new film To the Wonder is equally existential …
The City Podcast: A Cinema School for Houston
April 23, 2013 | Houston Baptist University
The old regime is changing.
Digital media …
Oblivion: Obliviously Obvious
April 19, 2013 | Joshua Sikora
Near the beginning of Oblivion, Tom Cruise stands in the middle of a destroyed stadium and eagerly recounts the climactic moments of a big football game to his colleague. Despite his enthusiasm, she doesn’t seem …
Sikora to Lead Cinema & New Media
April 10, 2013 | Houston Baptist University 1
Houston Baptist University’s Cinema & New Media Arts major will debut on campus in August 2013. HBU has recruited California-based independent filmmaker and new media entrepreneur Joshua Sikora to develop and head up its new program.…
Why Now Is Different Than Before
April 10, 2013 | Joshua Sikora
“To me, the great hope is that now these little 8mm video recorders and stuff will come out and some people who normally wouldn’t make movies will be making them and suddenly one day, some little …
Spielberg’s “Lincoln”
March 15, 2013 | Anthony Parisi
Lincoln brings together one of the greatest directors of our time with one of the most important US Presidents of all time. Years ago, when news broke that Steven Spielberg was developing this film I was …
Best Films of 2012
January 21, 2013 | Clint Cullum
Another year has come and gone and as usual there were several good films to be found if one knows where to look. Sadly, as usual the critics with their annual top 10 lists and the …
The New Renaissance
January 7, 2013 | Joshua Sikora
Where have we been and where are we going? Valuable questions in times of change — questions I think we all too often forget to ask. We talk about what is happening, rather than what has …
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