What “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” gets right
From Christianity Today The Eyes of Tammy Faye, with all its faults and shortcomings, promises to change the way Tammy Faye is remembered. But the way that the characters around her are so relatively...
Soul of a community, thoughts on “Gagarine” (France, 2020)
S.O.S. got a new meaning via Youri and Gagarin who lived in a symbiotic relationship. Let me break down this sentence: Cité Gagarine was a real building, a 370-apartment housing project in outer Paris...
Church as sanctuary, aka thoughts on “Horizon” (UK, 2019)
The writers of Horizon were not afraid to demonstrate their ambivalent feelings towards the church. One one hand, the first representation of religion in the film, is a priest, who is capable to provide...
Sweet sixteen: Filmandreligion.com is 16 years old oday
As you can confirm I registered the domain for this website 16 years ago today. Happy birthday sweet child of mine!
Yes, God, Yes (USA, 2019)
You don’t argue with people’s feelings and experiences, right? But you can always disagree with their opinions and attempt to widen their horizons and understandings. I read (and recommend reading) two interviews with Karen...
Spiritual stepcounter, aka thoughts on “The Two Popes” (USA, 2019)
One of the key themes of The Two Popes is change vs compromise. An interesting, technical, symbol of this debate is the stepcounter, that keeps telling Pope Benedict XVI to keep going. The digital machine not just...
The 27 books added to FilmandReligion.com in August and September 2019
Here is the list of the 27 books that I posted on this site, FilmandReligion.com in August and September 2019. The image above contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to...
The 27 articles added to FilmandReligion.com in September 2019
Here is the list of the 32 article that I posted on this site, FilmandReligion.com in September 2019. African Traditional Religion and Representation: An Examination of Selected Yoruba Movies by Olatunde Oyewole Ogunbiyi (2016-05)...
Sacraments in “The Irishman” (USA, 2019)
Rites and rituals play a crucial role in Martin Scorsese‘s The Irishman. Significant screentime was devoted to formal religious sacraments such as baptisms, weddings, last rites and funerals. These were the occasions where the...
Church as the handmaiden of state (“Comrade Drakulich”, Hungary , 2019)
In theory under the Hungarian variety of communist regimes everything was relegated to serve the purpose of the lofty idea(l)s of the state. Thus the leaders of the system had to make a choice...