Category: film
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some saturday distractions
(Pastors) Ray, Glenn, Steve, and David as you hoped you’d never see them: dancing in elf costumes. Thanks Julie. My PCC friend Edgar recommends the following films portraying aspects Biblical and Christian history: Zeferelli’s Jesus of Nazareth. Still the best portrayal overall of the Gospel story. A cast of many great actors, and Rod Steigert…
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on advent and the golden compass
I read two brief articles this morning from Christianity Today that I’d like to recommend here. The first, The Obstacles of Advent, was written by my friend Skye on how his church is attempting to make space for the Advent season. They’ve gotten very practical about this… In addition, beginning in late October we start…
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trade: the best film i’ll never see again
Back in January I had the chance to spend a few days at a film festival with some friends. Over the course of 5 days we saw a bunch of films (I can’t actually remember how many), but none of them impacted me as much as Trade. Inspired by an article in the New York…
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God Grew Tired of Us
Often while watching a film I will think of people who I think would enjoy it. This week while watching the 2006 documentary, God Grew Tired of Us, I thought, Every Parkview person should see this film. Seriously, that’s what I thought. Many of us know some of the story of the lost boys of…
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music from “once”
My favorite film of the year thus far is easily Once. But here’s the thing, this is a tricky film to describe. Some have said it’s a music film without being a musical. I did my best to review it over at rednow, but I’m not sure you’ll have any better idea about what the…
David W. Swanson 