Jeffrey Overstreet
Good Letters
To Run and Not Grow Weary, Part 1
So, why Chariots of Fire? Why is that what I chose for tonight’s movie? Netflix is recommending all kinds of…
In the Company of Women, Part II
Continued from yesterday. “You’re the sort of man who can’t know anyone intimately, least of all a woman.” That may…
In the Company of Women, Part I
In late July of 1992, Batman Returns ruled the box office. I bought a ticket for something else: A film…
Winners: Arts & Faith Ecumenical Jury Film Awards for 2015, Part 1
The 2015 Arts & Faith Ecumenical Jury Film Awards had a decidedly international flavor. Six of ten films recognized by…
When It Comes to Love, We’re Beginners
During a lecture last March [2011], I spoke fondly of a friend whom I had recently lost to cancer. Halfway through the anecdote, I suddenly recognized his wife, the mother of his two young children, in the audience, listening in rapt attention. She was far from home, a surprise visitor. I almost choked. And I suddenly began weighing my words with much greater care. Had I represented her husband well?
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…
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+ “A World Equal to Our Hopes”
+ “Being Charlie Kaufman”
+ “Worth Something” (June 2009)
+ “Neil Gaiman’s Girls, Part 1” (March 2009)
+ Neil Gaimans’s Girls, Part 2” (March 2009)
+ “Blood, Sweat, and Tears in Munyurangabo” (June 2009)
+ “Learning to Fly With Karl Frederickson” (July 2009)
+ “What Lies Beneath Lorna’s Silence” (August 2009)
+ “Séraphine: Standing Ajar” (September 2009)
+ “The Inglourious Dilemma, Volume One” (October 2009)
+ “The Inglourious Dilemma, Volume Two” (October 2009)
+ “Why the Wild Things Are” (November 2009)
+ “More Nightmares Before Christmas“ (December 2009)
+ “Dumping Out the Toybox” (December 2009)
+ “Strongest Impressions: Memorable Movies of 2009”—Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 (January 2010)
+ “Jarmusch 102: The Limits of Control” (April 2010)
+ “For the Love of Lost Dogs” (May 2010)
+ “Stalking the Maker of Stalker, Part 1” (May 2010)
+ “Stalking the Maker of Stalker, Part 2” (May 2010)
+ “Inception, Part 1: Mind Over What Matters” (July 2010)
+ “Inception, Part 2: The Long Road Home” (July 2010)
+ “A Week (of Movies) Can Change a Life” (August 2010)
+ “Inception, Part 1: Mind Over What Matters” (July 2010)
+ “Inception, Part 2: The Long Road Home” (July 2010)
+ “The Actor in Question” (September 2010)
+ “Maladjusted” (March 2011)
+ “Jane Eyre and the Beast” (March 2011)
+ “The Hobbit on Steroids” (2012)
+ “Learning to Read a Dance (in 3D!)“ (February 2012)
+ “All of It Was Music—Pete Horner’s World of Sound, Part 2” (March 2012)
+ “First Position and the Competition Crucible” (June 2012)
+ “Moonrise Kingdom and the Divine Symphony” (July 2012)
+ “Why I Abandoned Compliance” (September 2012)
+ “Holy Motors’ Motor Skills” (November 2012)
+ “A Tale of Two Rivers” (October 2012)
+ “Wrestling the Master” (October 2012)
+ “The Boy Who Believed in Airplanes” (January 2013)