Please click on the tabs above for information and dates for the National Film Retreat and the Advanced Certificate in Media Literacy Courses for 2010. There are also tabs for the Movie Bible Nights for 2010 as well as the new film program for children in 2010. We hope you can join us!
Precious: Based on the novel “Push” by Sapphire and The Blind Side reviews
Precious: Based on the novel “Push” by Sapphire – The newly emerging screen actress Gabourey Sidibe plays the teen girl Claireece “Precious” Jones in a film about courage, hope, physical and emotional child abuse, rape, incest, determination, tempered with a tiny touch of humor and humanity. Precious lives in Harlem with her no account mother, [...]
An Education, Me and Orson Welles reviews
Me and Orson Welles – This story, based on the novel by Robert Kaplow, is from one of my favorite “hip” directors, Richard Linklatter (Waking Life). It is set in 1937, when Welles was a known radio actor and before he took the world by storm both on the radio and in movies. “Me and [...]
Fantastic Mr Fox, Brothers, The Road, 2010 reviews
The Fantastic Mr. Fox – Based on a story by Roald Dahl (1916-1990), director Wes Anderson (The Darjeerling Limited) tells a wonderful and quirky stop-action animated tale about a wily fox (voiced by George Clooney who could get an Oscar nod just for this; Meryl Streep voices Mrs. Fox) who takes on three mean farmers [...]
A Christmas Carol, The Last Station, Up in the Air reviews
A Christmas Carol – Comedic actor Jim Carrey (Bruce Almighty) gives voice to the character of Scrooge in Robert Zemeckis’ animated version of Charles Dickens’ (1812-1870) classic novel. The story of the miser Scrooge is always relevant and Zemeckis (Who Framed Roger Rabbit; Forrest Gump) presents another timeless Christmas film for families to watch together. [...]
Samson & Delilah: Australian Film wins awards and enters Oscar race
Last month Sr. Hosea and I attended a screening of this powerful Australian film about two Aboriginal teens that learn to survive in a social and natural environment that has nothing to offer them but poverty and death. As with the best Australian films, the landscape plays a key role in the story, as context [...]
The The Ten Commandments in 2010 for Movie Bible Nights
Please see The Ten Commandments in Film for 2010 for our Movie Bible Night Program here at the Pauline Center for Media Studies for 2010. We will be using Lights, Camera, Faith: The Ten Commandments to guide our conversations. See www.PaulinesSoCal.wordpress.com for the film slate, dates, when, & where. We hope you will join us! Events are [...]
Oh My God! & The End of Poverty: Two documentaries about failed systems
Click here for my review of these films: Failed Systems: Two new documentaries explore religion and poverty
Stuff White People Like – review? commentary? Both?
Click here for my review and/or commentary on this book…. Stuff White People Like
December 17, 2009
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