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So, imagine my surprise to find that this holiday movie season has offered up not one but two Oscar - worthy, thoughtful films that deal with matters of faith in an intelligent and exciting way: Gran Torino and Doubt.

Terence Malick's latest film features an American (Ben Affleck) who falls in love with a French woman and a priest (Javier Bardem) who undergoes a crisis of faith.

The movie deals with faith, grief and doubt in a way that continues the «Jesus themes in other genres» trend that's been sliding into mainstream films over the past few years.

In future films, Woody says, he wants to deal with faith and spiritual values as Ingmar Bergman does — maybe through a drama but also again through the (more difficult, he feels) serious - comical film.

CNN's Fredricka Whitfield speaks with the film's screenwriter and a pastor in this week's installment of Faces of Faith.

Utilising interviews with a number of prominent Christians in high - level science, the film addresses in a three - part (totalling 90 - minutes) presentation the «big questions» which lie at the science - faith interface.

The film follows several pastors and popular fighters in a quest to reconcile their faith with a sport that many consider violent and barbaric.

The Broadcasting and Film Commission of the N.C.C. may make awards annually to films of outstanding merit that, within the perspective of the Christian faith, also (1) portray with honesty and compassion the human condition — including human society in its cultural environment — depicting man in the tension between his attempt to realize the full potential of his of.

In an interview with the Patheos blog Sister Rose at the Movie, he said that the film was, «a meditation on doubt, faith, a serious study about belief» and discussed how it impacted his own personal faith.

This film even comes with a limited warranty, letting you know that the manufacturer has great faith in their product.

While he was alive, Hawking had deep faith in humanity's ability to solve problem with ingenuity and creative thinking, and that faith comes through clearly in the film.

With «Cedar Rapids,» the filmmakers seem to put too much faith in their material, thinking that it would be funny enough to carry the whole film without them having to put too much thought into the story.

The film is evocative, intelligent, poignant, and delivers a good deal of clarity both in the development of «On the Origins of Species» and on the complexities of Charles Darwin the man, who shook the world with scientific theory, yet appeared more comforted by his faith in family.

At once subtle and visceral, the film never succumbs to the trap of the maudlin or tearful, offering instead with its unflinching gaze a measure of faith in the future.

Exploring loss of faith in authority both earthly and divine, the film deals with some similar themes to those of Mr. Robot, but in an even more enigmatic manner.

It is the first in a trilogy («Paradise: Love,» «Paradise: Faith,» and «Paradise: Hope»), with the beginning film set in Kenya.

(In Spanish with subtitles) The Monastery (Unrated) Faith - based documentary, filmed over six - years, chronicles the efforts of octogenarian Jorgen Lauersen Vig, a spiritually - oriented virgin, to convert his Danish castle into a monastery for an order of Russian nuns led by the headstrong Sister Ambrosija.

It bets the house on them, gambling on the possibility that an old - fashioned morality play asking Big Questions about faith, activism, and the futility of trying to save the world will pay off in a moment when even serious American cinema — i.e. films unconcerned with Skywalkers or Infinity Stones — comes at least partially steeped in irony.

No doubt — but it's that exact genus of hubris under the microscope in The Fountain, with its three interwoven storylines concerning the courage to explore new worlds armed and shielded only (and enough) by dogged, ragged faith, and so Aronofsky's arrogance becomes, only as it should be, the connective fibre that binds his film together.

Most effective in the progress of the film is the way the characters» lack of faith mirrors the viewer's skepticism: We are not satisfied with merely being told that the elevators can not get past the burning 81st floor, that the emergency stairwell is impassable, that the wind is too high for a helicopter to land on the building's roof.

But in Abduction these «leaps of faith» occur so often, and on such a noticeable scale that they severely detract from any engagement with the film, ultimately becoming its greatest letdown.

Outstanding performances from the female leads carry the film through its dizzying twists and turns, underlaid with a wicked streak of black comedy and an unexpected faith in the power of true love.

Fresh off her Oscar for Fargo, Frances McDormand seems intensely uncomfortable in the role of a Russian Jew, while Pauline Collins, Juliana Marguiles, and Jennifer Ehle do their best with one - dimensional war - film constructs (the religious one of quiet faith, the brassy American, the girl pinning her hopes on her flyboy boyfriend).

Hitting that sweet spot between comedy and tragedy, this faith - restoring German film conjures moments of surreal hilarity out of a somewhat bleak situation: an estranged dad adopts a jokey new persona in an effort to connect with his miserable, corporate - slave daughter, with increasingly unpredictable results.

EE: I continue to try and select excellent films that could suffer without a great score and offer my helping hand, because I'll be completely honest with you, I don't have a lot of faith in the other film composers out there.

In recent years, there's been a mini trend of faith - based films concerned with proving the existence of heaven.

With this in mind, Elena Lazic, Manuela Lazic and Paul Ridd have conducted a full survey of cinematic King iterations, ranking by quality and faith to the writer's spirit in order to get some sense of the enormous wealth of Stephen King content available on film.

For what it is, The Reaping will probably meet well with those who like religious - based horror films, particularly those that have a rooted dilemma in a faith vs. science foundation.

First Reformed's final minutes are untidy, but in all of its exaggerations, the film persists in its seriousness about the survival of the soul in hard times and its portrait of a flawed man who can't reconcile a troubled world with an uncompromising faith.

But for as much faith as Soderbergh has placed in the tough - as - nails newcomer, it was smart to surround her with actors like McGregor, Fassbender and Banderas, who will undoubtedly improve the film beyond the typical January fare.

A tender drama performed entirely in Yiddish [with English subtitles], the film intimately explores the nature of faith and the price of parenthood.

So, along with his brother, Stephen, and fellow pastors Michael Catt and Jim McBride, he co-founded Sherwood Pictures in order to make their own faith - based films.

The film is marked by some fine performances, not least from veteran TV actress Siobhan Finneran (last seen in Happy Valley) as a single mum and true believer trying to reconcile her faith with the practicalities of raising two teenage girls.

James Choi's Faith in Destiny looked to be an interesting and complex film about a man struggling with the misfortune and temptations life throws at him; instead this beautifully shot film was let down by a poor narrative and...

I loved the way escapist fantasy tangoed with brute consequence in «The Shape of Water» and «The Florida Project,» two films that have nothing in common other than heroines desperate to keep faith with innocence in a fallen world.

So while Annihilation bypasses cinemas in this country, do call out the movie industry for its lack of faith in filmmakers and film lovers; petition Netflix to team up with Curzon cinemas more to release its original movies theatrically in the UK; support smaller titles that do have cinema releases where possible; but don't spend your time lamenting the decline of cinema when the art of the visual medium is alive and kicking through Annihilation, in US theatres and on UK computers, phones, tablets and TVs.

Though it couldn't be more different, the film shares its optimism with Michael Haneke's Caché, placing its faith in the next generation to rediscover, not invent, resourcefulness and the hopefulness to employ it to affect a more positive outcome.

With very few concerns for parents, other than the onslaught of animated martial arts violence, the film offers a feel - good tale about building faith in oneself and believing in the talents of others.

- Audio Commentary: with Maureen O'Hara - AMC Backstory: MIRACLE ON 34th STREET: This is a look at the movie by AMC and how the studio had no faith in the film.

Rush is a dud of a film that really stomps on whatever faith was left in Ron Howard's filmmaking virtues, but Brühl is reason enough to see it, and his nominations from SAG and BAFTA, whose memberships significantly overlap with those of the Academy of Motional Picture Arts and Sciences, prove that voters are.

by Bryant Frazer Death Wish director Michael Winner tried his hand at a boilerplate horror flick with The Sentinel, another in the long - running cycle of American horror films that doubled as scary religious propaganda, with the faith of Catholic priests the last bulwark against harrowing incursions by Satan himself on our mortal realm.

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The Wedding Plan is a film wherein the protagonist has an extended philosophical conversation with her seamstress — a character who appears in only one scene — about God, His will, faith,...

A U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Director was presented to: Maggie Betts, for her film Novitiate — In the early 1960s, during the Vatican II era, a young woman training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, sexuality and the changing church.

Martin Scorsese repays his fans» faith with his most rewarding film in years — but Passengers is a slight tale of lust in space

This past year Walking On Water Films was involved with the promotion of Bethany Hamilton's feature film Soul Surfer, working in conjunction with the Sony Pictures Faith marketing team to promote the film's theatrical release.

THIS film is the culmination of all that, with a stronger activist voice, updated science content, inclusion of the faith - based green movement — and a revisit of Louisiana, where every interviewee in 2002 predicted devastation on a Katrina scale.