2023 Top 10 - 1More Film Blog
There was a lot of misery at the movies this year. Some of it was onscreen. A writer's strike and actor's strike didn't exactly keep us devoid of new content, but they did seem to extend the desert between last year's award season and the next. Causes for political, social,&helli..
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The Newsroom - Charlie & Sloan "Don't Call Me Girl Sir" - YouTube
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead
Red Whiteville and Blue - 1More Film Blog
Red Whiteville and Blue has all the trappings of a Frank Capra picture. Small-town, plain folks join together in the face of economic hardship, seemingly powerless in the face of corporate greed and political opportunism. Their inspiration is a community organizer, who, without much blame could simp..
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Nakamura Fan Reacts to Gukesh Winning Candidates - YouTube
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Love Is Stronger Than Justice (The Munificent Seven)(Live From Lake House, Wiltshire, E... - YouTube
Official Music Video for Love Is Stronger Than Justice (Live From Lake House, Wiltshire, England, 1993) performed by Sting.Follow Sting:Facebook: https://www...
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Arts and Faith Top 100 Song of Bernadette and Lourdes - YouTube
Kenneth R. Morefield interviews Steven D. Greydanus about The Song of Bernadette and Lourdes, two films on the Arts & Faith Top 100
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All We Carry (Voge, 2024) - 1More Film Blog
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival returns to Durham later this week after a one-year hibernation. Candy Voge's All We Carry gets the coveted Fletcher Hall location, meaning tickets should be available all the way up to the Friday afternoon screening. The festival does screen some prize w..
2023 Top 10 - 1More Film Blog
There was a lot of misery at the movies this year. Some of it was onscreen. A writer's strike and actor's strike didn't exactly keep us devoid of new content, but they did seem to extend the desert between last year's award season and the next. Causes for political, social,&helli..
"A show you might be interested in" is neither a euphemism for nor a synonym for "a show we are being paid to promote."
Sincerely,
Me.
Not saying it should, but predicting it will. I don't pay much attention to awards, but it's felt like its move through awards season has been a march toward inevitability.
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Sense and Sensibility (2024) - 1More Film Blog
I haven't seen a Hallmark film in years, and I find myself largely indifferent to the charms of Bridgerton, the most prominent example of mixed-race casting I can think of that is popular at the current moment. So it would be fair to say that my expectations while approaching Hallmark's&he..
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A Binding Truth (Woehrle, 2023) - 1More Film Blog
It's not so much that those who forget the past repeat it; it's that those who never foreground the past forget what they already know. In America, we know -- or claim that we do -- that slavery has cast a lengthy shadow over our history, with repercussions that reverberate…
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The Teachers' Lounge (Çatak, 2023) - 1More Film Blog
The Teachers' Lounge is a nasty little mousetrap of a movie. It is one of those films where circumstances spiral from bad to worse while basically well-intentioned people get more and more entangled in the slippery slope of unintended consequences to seemingly innocent decisions. The two films ..
rumors of God run through your dark blood."
--Rilke Book of Monastic Life 1, 38
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God & Country (Partland, 2024) - 1More Film Blog
For nigh on ten years now, I have been telling all of my friends, most of my acquaintances, and anyone else who would listen: "This isn't Christianity. This is not what I believe. This is not what most Christians I know and interact with believe." So why am I not…
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Interpreters Wanted (Ham, 2024) - 1More Film Blog
Interpreters Wanted puts a human face on a political issue so seemingly one-sided that it is hard not to fault the film for refusing to be angrier and failing to clarify which individuals or groups bear the brunt of responsibility for it. When the United States withdrew forces from Afghanistan,&hell..
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Oppenheimer - Arts & Faith
“You don't get to commit the sin, then have us all feel sorry for you that it had consequences,” Kitty Oppenheimer reprimands her husband Robert midway through 2023’s Oppenheimer. For most of the film, J. Robert Oppenheimer leads the Manhattan Project without reserve, arguing the necessity of c..
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The Holdovers - Arts & Faith
The absolutely brilliant Paul Giamatti plays Paul Hunham, a cantankerous, foul-mouthed prep-school teacher, who is somewhat forced into taking care of a bunch of misfit students during winter break in Alexander Payne's newest masterpiece The Holdovers. The film, which also stars Dominic Sessa ..
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Killers of the Flower Moon - Arts & Faith
Killers of the Flower Moon lays plain yet another appalling chapter of American history. The Reign of Terror in the 1920s saw the Osage people murdered by white people who felt the wealth from oil was their God-given right as the superior race. Apparently, they saw the Osage property as…
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. - Arts & Faith
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. is essential viewing because an unexamined faith is not a wellspring of beliefs, but a list on inclinations inscribed on a wet napkin. Following Abby Ryder Fortson (Ant-Man; A Dog's Journey) as Margaret, the daughter of a Jewish man (Bennie Sadie -- Op..
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Past Lives - Arts & Faith
Celine Song’s directorial debut Past Lives has the kind of confidence that one would expectfrom a seasoned filmmaker deep into their career. The narrative is built around the concept of in-yun, which is essentially the belief that the relationships built amongst people are ultimately the result of a..
Barbie - Arts & Faith
I never thought I would identify with Barbie. As a little girl, I disavowed the doll and any potential ‘girly-girl’ association by telling people I owned Stacie’s 3-in-1 Bunk Bed and Barbie’s ‘So Much to Do!’ Kitchen set solely because I was a miniature enthusiast. As an adult woman, I…
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The Boy and the Heron - Arts & Faith
“How do you live?” is the fundamental question posed by Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron. It’s the question posed to Mahito Maki, the angry 12-year-old boy at the film’s centre. Having recently lost his mother in a fire in Tokyo during World War II, Mahito moves to the countryside…
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Asteroid City - Arts & Faith
"I still don't understand the play." So muses Augie Steenbeck (Jason Schwartzman) multiple times through Wes Anderson's story of a televised production of a fictitious play about death, grief, acting, "brainiac" children, alien invasion, military oversight, first romanc..
