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Are You Ready For a Miracle?
Caution: Lourdes is a movie that may complicate your prayers. And prayer is complicated enough already, isn’t it? You’re probably familiar with scriptures that advise us how to pray. I’m embarrassed to admit it, but I sometimes read those passages as if they were the troubleshooting page of a user’s manual, hoping I might find I’ve overlooked a step, a secret, a keystroke....
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Motion Pictures
I like movies because other people do the talking and they don’t expect you to say anything clever in reply. Also, something usually happens. I’m suspicious of mass culture, but I’ll say this for the masses—they mostly won’t tolerate two hours of some whiner going on about how exquisitely the world has wounded him. They want a car crash, or for people to fall in love, or better still, for people to fall in love while....
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“All of It was Music”—Pete Horner’s World of Sound, Part 2
Air travel and a head cold—it’s a hellish combination. Your ears swell shut and your head feels like it’s exploding. It’s an experience that disturbed Pete Horner. “I felt disconnected from the world...because my senses were temporarily limited.” It’s how he feels while watching a movie with a shoddy sound design. In his work as a sound designer....
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“All of It Was Music”—Pete Horner’s World of Sound, Part 1
In 2010, I had the privilege of leading the Film Seminar at the Glen Workshop in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I was a student posing as an instructor, a film enthusiast more interested in learning about movies from classroom discussion than in expounding upon my own movie-going experience. Still, it caught me by surprise to learn that the....
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Strongest Impressions of 2011, Part 2
It happens every January—movie ads fill up with boasts about awards they’ve won. Soon, those boasts will include Oscar nominations. And The Artist is currently the most boastful of all. Filmmaker Michael Hazanavicius’s tribute to Hollywood’s silent film era is stirring up enthusiasm among audiences and critics alike. Me, I enjoyed it. It was playful, funny, a hoot. Hazanavicius showed guts when he committed....
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Memoir by Lauren Winner, Poetry by James Harpur, Art by Guy Chase and Adrian Wiszniewski
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