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June 2007

June 05, 2007

Specials: Cairns and Overstreet Poetry! “Knocked Up.” “All About Adam.” “The Golden Compass.” “Spidey 3.” Helen Mirren. Aronofsky.

Here are a few links I've been saving up this week... Scott Cairns and Anne...

June 05, 2007

Music bits: U2 Album Progress. Whitman’s aves. Hartse on Feist. The Believer.

A quick blitz of music links: U2's progress on their new album. Andy Whitman rates...

June 01, 2007

The Police, Unplugged

MTV's decided to dust off Unplugged. Billboard reports it will feature appearances by Mary J....

June 01, 2007

Your Favorite Moments of “Silent Acting”

Last week, Elvis Mitchell interviewed Sarah Polley on NPR's "The Treatment." They talked about Polley's...

May 2007

May 31, 2007

Over the Rhine’s “Trumpet Child” Tour Kickoff

From the Over the Rhine MySpace page: Starting August 31, Over the Rhine will kick...

May 31, 2007

Sufjan Stevens Plays The Innocence Mission

In this Pitchfork blog entry on Sufjan Stevens, there's a link to video of Sufjan...

May 30, 2007

Victor Morton on “the Russian Abortion Film”

I agree with Victor Morton. Let's not condemn a movie before we see it. Let's...

May 30, 2007

John Wilson (Books and Culture) on the New Michael Chabon Novel

John Wilson reviews The Yiddish Policemen's Union: The Yiddish Policemen's Union is the best new...

May 29, 2007

Film, Faith, and Justice: A Film Festival

Here's my good friend Martin Stillion writing about this year's Film, Faith, and Justice film...

May 29, 2007

Star Wars Week: “Clone Wars” Trailer, Star Wars Muppets

As I mentioned Friday, it's the week of Star Wars' 30th birthday, so I'm trying...

May 28, 2007

Sinead O’Connor’s Psalms

Theology, the latest album by Sinead O'Connor, is coming next month. Her life has certainly...

May 28, 2007

My Favorite 10 Minutes of David Letterman… Ever.

This interview was my favorite ten minutes of late-night talk show ever... this spontaneous, unpredictable...

May 26, 2007

“It was 30 Years Ago Today Ben Kenobi Taught the Farmboy to Play…”

On May 25, 1977, Star Wars arrived. I could wax nostalgic and tell you what...

May 23, 2007

A Few Words from Geoffrey S. Deweese

Stopped over at the blog of my dear friend Geoffrey Deweese, a military attorney stationed...

May 22, 2007

Farewell to the Storyteller Who Imagined the Horned King

Lloyd Alexander was one of the fantasy authors who inspired me to write story after...

May 22, 2007

Your Favorite Monster

I'm "in the zone." I've "jumped a train." I'm hanging on to the story while...

May 22, 2007

Tolkien would not be pleased.

At the beginning of the trailer for The Golden Compass, New Line boasts about its...

May 18, 2007

“No Country for Old Men” – “Staggering,” “The Coen’s Best Dark Film Ever”

Oh, but I do hate to say "I told you so." Jeffrey Wells is reeling,...

May 16, 2007

Revealing Interview with Arcade Fire’s Win and Regine

You may have already heard Arcade Fire saying some of these things in other interviews,...

May 15, 2007

I’ve Survived the “Steve Brown, Etc” show!

Did you hear my conversation with the wild and crazy guys on the Steve Brown,...

May 15, 2007

Commonweal on “Into Great Silence”

The new issue of Commonweal includes one columnist's thoughts on Philip Gröning's Into Great Silence...

May 15, 2007

“The Tale of Despereaux”: Promising Signs

One of my favorite children's books... no, scratch that. One of my favorite books is...

May 14, 2007

Did Your Teachers Show Movies in Class?

Today, Seattle Pacific University instructor Christine Chaney is sitting down to discuss Krzysztof Kieslowski's The...

May 14, 2007

Looking Closer’s Film Forum: “Away from Her”

I'm eager to see Sarah Polley's directorial debut, Away from Her, because it is reported...

May 14, 2007

Looking Closer’s Film Forum: “28 Weeks Later”

Is 28 Weeks Later just another sequel designed to cash in on the success of...

May 14, 2007

Darren Hughes at The San Francisco International Film Festival

Your chances of finding a great film at the multiplex are probably much slimmer than...

May 14, 2007

Comparing Robert Bresson and Flannery O’Connor

The new issue of Senses of Cinema sounds is a feast of thought-provoking essays. Not...

May 14, 2007

Hal Hartley Hearts Terrence Malick

As a huge fan of Hal Hartley's The Unbelievable Truth, Trust, Simple Men, and Henry...

May 13, 2007

Your Deepest Impulse

Opus is meditating on a profound passage from The Screwtape Letters. And you can meditate...

May 11, 2007

Darrel Manson reads "Through a Screen Darkly"

Full disclosure: Darrel Manson, who writes for HollywoodJesus.com, is a friend as well as a...