Rated R. Our ratings: V-6; L-4; S/N-3 Running time: 1 hour 25 min. Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun. Look, the tears of the oppressed—with no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power—with no one to comfort them. And I thought the dead, …
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2003)
Rated G. Running time: 83 minutes. Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, thou art very great! Thou art clothed with honor and majesty… …Thou makest springs gush forth in the valleys; they flow between the hills, they give drink to every beast of the field; the wild asses quench their thirst. …
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Schultze Gets the Blues (2003)
Rated PG Our Content Rating: V-0 ; L-1 ; S/N-2 Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob. Raise a song, sound the tambourine… Psalm 81:2 Director/writer Michael Schorr’s film begins at the same point, as did the American film About Schmidt—with the retirement of its main character. Schultze …
Osama (2003)
Not Rated: equivalent to PG. Our content rating Violence-5; Language-1; Sex/Nudity-1 Deliver me, O LORD, from evil men; preserve me from violent men, who plan evil things in their heart, and stir up wars continually. They make their tongue sharp as a serpent’s, and under their lips is the poison of vipers. [Selah] Guard …
Open Water (2003)
Rated R Our content rating: V-5; L-5; S/N-5. Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck. I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me rescue mefrom sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my …
Off the Map (2003)
Rated PG-13 Our Content Rating: V-0 ; L-2 ; S/N-4 For the LORD’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage. “He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. Like an eagle …
Monster (2003)
Rated PG-13 Our content rating V-8; L-9; S/N-8. Monster It is difficult to decide which film is harder to watchwriter/director Patty Jenkins’ study of a woman serial killer, or Mel Gibson’s account of the last twelve hours in the life of Jesus the Christ. Both are harrowing to sit through, filled with blood and violence, …
James' Journey to Jerusalem (2003)
Rated PG-13 Our content rating V-1; L-2; S/N-1. I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my supplications. Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live. The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered …
Good Bye, Lenin (2003)
Rated PG-13 Our content rating V-1; L-2; S/N-1. For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a …
Bon Voyage (2003)
Rated PG-13 Our content rating: V-3; L-1; S/N-3. Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s film of romantic love set in German occupied France has the look and feel of a big budget production—and yet has come and gone quickly from our local art house theater. Thus is the fate of so many subtitled films, no matter how worthy. This …