Mel Gibson's gore - laden war story is not just a crowdpleasing tale of American bravery, it's a unique
film about faith and suffering
But it is a three hour
film about faith.
What I admire most from the film is that for
a film about faith, its intentions do not subscribe to any in particular, if any at all.
This is a very raw, sad, and beautiful
film about faith and fatherhood, and it feels just as grounded and big - hearted as the other films Nichals has made.
Both are the subjects of award - winning short
films about faith, honored Thursday by the Tony Blair Faith Foundation.
Not exact matches
Whatever one thinks
about the theology of these
films or their artistic merit, it is a welcome trend to see three
faith - based
films featured at the box - office.
The release of Les Misérables on DVD will remind a nation of one of its new favourite
films, but it also presents Christians with a rare opportunity a resource of exceptional quality that will provoke conversations
about faith.
The actor talks to Georgia Humphreys
about how he approached the part, the
film's timeliness and his own
faith.
Check out this fascinating CNN Connect the World interview with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair
about his personal
faith, his conversion to Catholicism and his awards for short
films about religion, which were announced yesterday.
The more surprising performance came from the
faith - based
film I Can Only Imagine, which expanded to
about 600 more theaters and made another $ 13.8 million, down only 19 percent from its opening weekend.
I want my children to make decisions for themselves
about faith and some of what was presented in that
film made me question if I was really allowing that.
And while it's true that every branch of Christianity has been racked with scandal over the years,
films like the Oscar - winning Spotlight and Netflix true crime series The Keepers do a much better job of creating compelling art that raises questions
about faith and morality.
While Pedraza focuses on his own
faith and that of those closest to him, Tandan, whose
film is
about a mosque in India, urges believers to learn
about other religions.
Though his
film is an eloquent testimony to the power of a nun's religious
faith, he himself is hesitant to speak
about religion as anything more than an offshoot of secular morality.
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.
It is a
film about the importance of family and having
faith in each other, and how each can play a pivotal role in the journeys of the others, in both sickness and in health.
I wanted to let you know
about about an independent
film coming out this month titled: «Article VI:
Faith.
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What's clear is that Gibson has made a
film about family,
faith, love and forgiveness all put to the test in an arena of violent conflict - a movie you don't want to miss.
Instead, this is a movie where the sports are the backdrop and it's really a
film about dedication, determination, and
faith.
The
film is a religious avant - garde
film trapped inside a narrative story line
about a boy who learns the reality of life and
faith.
The first of Ingmar Bergman's bleak but outstanding
films from his trilogy of chamber plays
about faith, alienation and the emptiness of life.
He wanted to make a
film about the relationship between the Abrahamic
faiths, at a time when anti-Semitism was as rife in British culture as Christianity was strong.
Ultimately an uplifting
film about friendship, The Station Agent will delight you and give you
faith in your fellow man.
Midnight Special is a
film about fatherhood and
faith, with sci - fi elements that are engrossing, mysterious, and will linger with viewers for a long time.
Gibson has made a big, bold, nightmarishly beautiful
film not just
about the dawn of the Christian
faith, but
about the awful tendency of human communities (wherever and whenever in the world they may exist) toward self - preservation, intolerance and mob rule.
Even though the subtext here
about the genocidal lies that great civilizations are invariably built upon threatens to deflate the
film's soufflé texture, the Marvel Universe's unshakeable
faith in the clear delineation between good and evil luckily prevents Ragnarok from ever truly buying what Hela's selling.
But one could easily build on the questions raised in the
film and have some very encouraging conversations
about faith and the answers that God has provided to us through Jesus» life, death, and resurrection.
What's especially enthralling
about the
film is how it tackles major themes - religion vs. science, practicality vs.
faith - in such simple terms; there are no elaborate speeches or arguments, it's all laid out in the most economical ways possible.
A slender, much - loved picture book built on dream - smudged oil paintings become an intricate, polished, indefinably askew digitally animated
film about the purity of childhood
faith, with Tom Hanks taking on five roles.
The
film is based on the true story of Pearson who after a life - changing experience challenges the
faith of his congregation by preaching
about universal salvation.
While we haven't heard a whole lot
about Promised Land so far, the fact that the studios are going out of their way to ensure it has a shot at the big awards suggests they have a lot of
faith in this
film.
First Reformed marks a considerable turning point, a
film à thèse
about the struggle for grace and
faith in our modern world of hyperreality and despair, especially when the various stopgaps offered by society — organized religion, political institutions, ecological activism — seem variously counterfeit.
The
film breaks
faith with its audience by asking us to care
about two profoundly antipathetic characters spouting pseudo-poetic banalities.
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.
Greg Wolfe, Publisher and Editor of Image; Author, Intruding Upon the Timeless: Meditations on Art,
Faith and Mystery: «Through a Screen Darkly constitutes a milestone in Christian reflection
about contemporary
film.
Blogger and critic Chris Williams has been writing
about film and
faith for more than a decade.
Lee went on to describe the
film as «an extraordinary story
about hope, survival, spirituality and
faith.
Take Shelter (d. Jeff Nichols) Much ink has been spilled
about the closing moments of Jeff Nichols's sophomore effort, yet the real mark of his intelligence is not his ambiguity
about the
film's apocalyptic elements, but rather his restraint in framing them as personal matters of
faith between a married couple who are
about to weather any number of crises, not all of them earth - shattering.
Here, she talks
about A Question of
Faith, her highly - anticipated Christian
film co-starring stars Richard T. Jones, Kim Fields, T.C. Stallings, C. Thomas Howell, Jaci Velasquez, Gregory Alan Williams and Renee O'Connor.
If this was a
film about adults, or even teenagers running off together, there would have been a significant crisis of
faith between the love - struck pair: a moment where they realized the foolishness of their impulsive flight.
The Exorcist, while being one of the scariest
films of all time, is ultimately
about a priest's crisis of
faith, guilt, and ability to fight a very personal spiritual battle.
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.
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...
Yes, it sheds light on the homeless and offers them humanity when they're virtually written off by society, but the footage has the music, marital drama, and religious indicators lingering in the backdrop that one might expect from a cliched
faith - based
film about miracles and turning to God.
That Lee was able to make a $ 100 million dollar movie
about these themes at 20th Century Fox was impressive enough, that he turns it into something of a Rorschach test for the audience (I felt that the
film was suggesting that belief in God is a comforting fiction, religious friends took it as an affirmation of their
faith) even more so.
Titled First Reformed, the
film is ostensibly
about losing
faith and trying to get it back, but that really sells this project short.
A great
film about greatness, the story of the horse and the no less brave woman who had
faith in him.
In Mike Cahill's new
film, I Origins, there's a scene where atheist scientist Ian (Michael Pitt) is told by an Indian woman of
faith about a pujari friend who admitted that if science were to ever invalidate his beliefs, he would accept that reality.
I've heard nothing but good things
about this
film, and I would love a return to form for writer - director Paul Schrader who has made some searing, soul - crushing
films in his time, especially when it comes to matters of
faith.