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What is real?
Let’s start with the irony. No film genre employs the power of technology more fiercely than science fiction does while simultaneously warning us of the dangers of it. Maybe the greatest ...
... art should do. It shouldn’t just move us, but should also be able to put its finger on the experience when we don’t feel able to move at all. ...
... on his blog. His devoted reader base decided to take matters into their own hands. One kickstart er.com campaign later and they had raised well over $300,000. The film was already living up to its title. ...
... pious, and the poor all have no regard for the man who lost his bicycle, do we?
In such a system, we’re left with start ling questions of what moral action is. A moral life, according to Aristotle, is ...
... myself as a part of those markers? Where do I fit and how do I act, within a life, within a story, that’s bigger than just me?
Many of the ‘actors’ in the film aren’t actors at all - they are playing ...
... babies taking part in everyday experiences. If the film doesn’t exactly seem like a “page turner” (or whatever it is we call a movie that we can’t stop watching), it’s because it's not. What will grab ...
What do we hunger for?
Something was missing from the recent novel-turned-film, The Hunger Games. Training montage? Check. Close, heart felt shots of the protagonist? Check. Bow and arrows? Check. Hunger? ...
... reaching the heart s of inner-city Memphis high school boys through something they loved. He spent six years trying to build their character and trying to make them better. Winning football games was the ...
What warms your heart ?
A lot of talk this year was about how Mart in Scorsese showed amazing range by directing Hugo. But back in the day, George Stevens showed far more versatility and range by ...
Does death give rise to living? As Harold Crick [Will Ferrell] realizes he’s not just living life, he’s actually living a story, things start to change for him. But don’t reach for your copy of A Million ...
... them, and for how they used them. By so doing, they kept a powerfully creative tension between intellectual and art istic discipline and childlike curiosity which would become the permeating characteristic ...
... remain muddled: are they toward the murderers or his art or both? And ultimately, this is a story evoking Aristotelian catharsis; we pity not only the murderers, but the author who turns cold and confused, ...
The Oscars will be awarded here in a couple of weeks and The Art ist (fortunately) has a decent shot at winning it all. Here's why. Hollywood loves stories about Hollywood. From A Star is Born to Sunset ...
... joyride), his two adolescent daughters adolescent-ness, and his large extended family as they try to make a major decision together. Nothing in this film seems like it couldn’t be a part of your life. ...
... The Art ist is a silent film about the silent (film) era. It's set in 1927. It's in black and white. And other than accompanying music, there is no sound. For many, knowing this is exactly why you haven't ...
Does your life make good art ? American playwright Tennessee Williams said that, “if the writing is honest, it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.” This provides an appropriate framework for ...
... population. And if we haven’t part icipated, we have stood by in apathy and fear. In this film you meet five people with unique and diverse backgrounds, cultures, and stories as homosexuals. The first ...
Who knew that anarchy could be so much fun? The next time you find yourself overwhelmed with the tragic sense of life, when you just need to watch a film that’s a good laugh from start to finish, check ...
The art icle in the stately Paris Review begins this way: “As Kim Kardashian recently reminded us, marriage is no longer the inevitable result of a wedding; the ritual is easily divorced from the institution.” ...
... as how good it is. Why does this exist in hip-hop? I can’t think of another genre or art form as wide-spread as hip-hop that puts so much stock in who the art ist is and where he/she comes from.
I understand ...
Can I be fixed? Let’s be honest. Mart in Scorcese and “family friendly” have never gone hand in hand. But what Scorcese forgoes in his familiar, often violent, style with the release of Hugo, he gains in ...
... continent. Melville’s description of Moby Dick helps us to imagine the this land: “Is it that by [the whale’s] indefiniteness it shadows forth the heart less voids and immensities of the universe, and thus ...
... ratting someone out was as contemptible as committing the original crime. These issues are at the heart of Elia Kazan’s 1954 masterpiece of corruption On the Waterfront. Marlon Brando’s character Terry ...
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As if you didn’t already know it, music doesn’t just make us think, it makes us feel. And advertisers are finally start ing to figure out that feelings might in fact be more powerful than knowledge. ...
... are a large part of what make us human. They define how we interact with the world and with each other. “To encounter another human body,” he writes, “is thus to encounter, indissociably, both sameness ...
... new.)
But, what if there was another you? On another Eart h?
This is the establishing question surrounding Mike Cahill’s feature film debut Another Eart h. As blatant in the title, scientists have discovered ...
... for it to happen.”
“It,” of course, is the twist.
In 1869, Phonney Mart in was described as an “extremely hard pitcher to hit for the ball never comes in a straight line‚ but in a tantalizing curve.” ...
... that there must be a better way. There really is no other response to Chris’s short life, his heart , and the questions that take him to places and people and adventures that I will never see… “Oh wow.” ...
... in the face of his wife in The Godfather, Charlton Heston discovering the planet of those “damn, dirty apes” was actually eart h, or Bogie putting Ingrid Bergman on a plane in Casablanca. (Sorry for the ...
When does advertising become art ?
Each weekday morning I pass a tree that gives me pause. It is an old maple, thick in branch and deep in root – its limbs extend across a street that probably ...
... of creativity in using that new technology. When new things are created to make art easier to produce it doesn't mean that art is dead. Art isn't just about the skill it takes to record a track or paint ...
... by which movies we go see (even if we don’t want to believe it).
The true beauty of the book, however, is that life imitates art . Story is as much about what we watch as it is about what we live. He ...
... like Sorkin are why. He wrote the screenplay for both films along with all that amazing dialog in West Wing and a couple of awesome TV shows that got canceled because he’s too smart for mainstream audiences ...
... storyline. The focus is on a part icular set of characters independent of any part icular location(s). French producer/director Emmanuel Benbihy decided to buck this trend with the creation of Paris Je T’aime ...
... will tell if this movie has the same transcendence beyond the time that made it. We follow Daniel Plainview as he adopts a part ner’s son and battles Eli Sunday—a preacher in the area who is Daniel’s spiritual ...
... something absolutely endearing and captivating about this simple man and he has a thing or two to teach all of us about what it means to be an art ist with eyes that see. ...
... interested in wonder, faith, and art (and if you aren’t interested in one of those, you may be on the wrong site).
Through the diary of a young priest in 1930’s France, we see tussles with parishioners, ...
We like to think of our art as spontaneous. Movies about writers either show them angst-ridden and wondering what to write, or pouring golden words out of their fingertips. Musicians find inspiration in ...
Who decides whether or not you are loved?
HappyThanksYouMorePlease, the 2011 Indi Film by Josh Radnor, takes a stab at answering this question with just the right combination of intention and lightheart edness. ...
... workers, a priest, professors, etc.) each with his/her own unique expertise on life.
What Jeff and Cliff find is that while our part icular experiences may be very different, we are all asking the same ...
... readers in general, and Mississipians in part icular, a fuller sense of the humanity of these women.
The maids were members of an ongoing tradition of service to white owners that extends back to the ...
... of finding redemption in the broken part s of life and relationships. It’s a hope that comes only when someone (or something) else enters in, giving you new eyes to see and a new heart to love. ...
... with Dostoevsky. Even when we don’t know what he’s talking about.
Greg Wolfe—the founder of Image Journal and one of the preeminent thinkers on religion and art —doesn’t bandy about the title for marketing ...
... to their eart hly fathers. But whether you are a baptized-born-again believer, an agnostic wondering and wavering between faith and doubt or an atheist who is sure there is nothing up there other than blue ...
... Pixar formula.
As we continue to explore the nature of wonder through art and film (on this site and rednow.com), we continue to recognize the deep connection between art and personal expression. L’Illusionniste ...
A noose for the news? Unsurprisingly, the headquart ers of our nation’s third most read newspaper, the New York Times, is a tense place. Yet the tensions represented in the recent documentary Page One: ...
... 8 is built on a wonder box. It’s not long before it literally crashes into the frame of the camera and it start s to do its work [and few do crashes better than Abrams]. With a cast of kids moving this ...
... stories have start ed with the problem of pain. We wonder why the innocent suffer. Why do bad things happen to good people? The Tree of Life opens with quotations from the book of Job. In the biblical ...
... you know where to look, that you can see small traces of another world here on eart h? In the chaos and destruction of our world, could it be that someone, somewhere else has been waiting for your return ...
... storyline by which we all seem to connect; it possess a smart and healthy tension of laughter, realism, and hope. But let’s be honest. The real draw here is to the characters – part icularly Juno (Ellen ...
