JESUS OF MONTREAL (1989)
When Daniel,an actor in Montreal, is hired by a priest to revise a tired old Passion Play, he uses modern scholarship to come up with a version that upsets and exposes the hypocrisy of the priest.
Coming: My New Book
I can’t believe it’s been such a long time since my last entry. Aside from my usual writing for Visual Parables, LectionAid, and Lectionary Homiletics, I’ve been engrossed in finishing the book Blessed Are the Filmmakers, outlined below. It was inspired by reading Daniel Buttry’s inspiring collection of 60+ minibiographies of peacemakers, living and dead, …
The Rum Diary (2011)
Rated R. Our Ratings: V -2 ; L -7 ; S/N –6. Running time: 2 hours. Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise. Proverbs 20:1 Speak out for those who cannot speak, for the rights of all the destitute. Speak out, judge righteously, defend …
The Last Station (2009)
Rated R. Our ratings: V-1 ; L-2 ; S-6/N- 5. Running time: 1 hour 52 min. Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to aliens. Lamentations 5:2 My beloved is mine and I am his; he pastures his flock among the lilies. Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, turn, my …
The Station Agent (2003)
The agent is a lonely dwarf inherits an old train station in rural NJ and, despite himself, gains 3 friends who overcome his loneliness & benefit from him.
Matewan (1987)
Based on the “coal wars” in WV during the 1920s, this is the story of Joe coming to town to organize the strikers into a union. To win, he must unite all factions–whites, Italians, & blacks.
My Sister’s Keeper (2009)
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V-1 ; L-2 ; S/N-3 . Running time: 1 hour 48 min. 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 …
Invictus (2009)
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V-1 ; L-3 ; S/N-1 If your enemies are hungry, give them bread to eat; and if they are thirsty, give them water to drink; for you will heap coals of fire on their heads, and the Lord will reward you. Proverbs 25:21-22 If it is possible, so far as it …
August Rush (2007)
Rated PG. Our ratings: V- 2; L- 1; S/N-4 . Running time: 1 hour 40 min. Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth; break forth into joyous song and sing praises. Sing praises to the Lord with the lyre, with the lyre and the sound of melody. With trumpets and the sound …