Attracted to those places where cinema and theology are indistinguishable, Film-Think is a collection of reviews interested in auteurs, Barthian blips of pure cinema, and a Dorskyan mode of theological reflection.
I write on film and the arts for venues such as Curator, Books and Culture, Twitch Film, Veritasse Magazine, MHP, and have an upcoming column at The Church and Postmodern Culture. I have lectured on film/theology and contemporary Jesus cinema at many universities and conferences. After managing a book arts studio and exhibiting work in Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Louis for a few years, I went on to complete my postgraduate education in the information technology of the first few centuries AD at several institutions in Europe.
I would be happy to review your screener or hear about your upcoming festival or film event programming. Contact at: filmthink (@) gmail.com
Some frequent reads:
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Some Essays Abroad:
Andy Warhol: Self Portraits
Asher Lev and the Problem of Christian Art.
*A Titanic Communication (A&F Top 100 List)
Found Objects - Joseph Cornell and the Art of Advent
Godard - Turning the Lens on Itself
*How Should We Then Review?
Judging a Book by its Cover - The Da Vinci Code Spectacle
Napoleon Dynamite vs. Gummo
On Gillian Welch - For Music Lovers in a Dangerous Time
Seeking the Shalom of the City and Other Abstractions
Towards an Easter Aesthetic - What Does the Garden Have to Do With the Gallery?
Turner, Monet, Whistler at the Tate
*What on Earth is Christian Film Criticism?
When the Child Was a Child
Some Lists
Top Ten 2008
Some Reviews
Ameris - Poids leger
Angelopoulos - Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow
Anderson - There Will Be Blood
Anderson - The Life Aquatic
Apted - 49 Up
Aronofsky - The Fountain | The Wrestler
Bahrani - Chop Shop
Boe - Reconstruction
Brakhage - Eye Myth
Bresson - Au hasard Balthazar
Bunuel - Nazarin
Caouette - Tarnation
Carax - Boy Meets Girl | Les amants du Pont Neuf
Ceylan - Distant
Civeyrac - Le doux amour des hommes
Coens - Intolerable Cruelty
Coppola - Lost in Translation
Coppola - Youth Without Youth
Corbijn - Control
Cronenberg - A History of Violence | Eastern Promises
Demy - Les parapluies de Cherbourg
Denis - Vendredi soir | L'intrus
Desplechin - Rois et Reine
Dumont - La vie de Jesus
Eastwood - Mystic River | Million Dollar Baby
Ferrara - Mary
Gatlif - Exils
Fincher - Benjamin Button
Gibson - The Passion of the Christ | The Passion of the Christ
Godard - Vivre sa vie
Gondry - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Guerin - En la ciudad de Sylvia
Hamer - Factotum
Haneke - Le temps du loup
Herzog - Grizzly Man | Encounters at the End of the World
Hess - Nacho Libre
Hou Hsiao-Hsien - Le voyage du ballon rouge
Jacquot - A toute de suite
Jarmusch - Broken Flowers
Jennings - Son of Rambow
Kechiche - La graine et le mulet
Kelly - Southland Tales
Kim Ki Duk - 3 Iron | Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall...and Spring
Kubrick - 2001
Lee - 25th Hour | Crooklyn
Leigh - Happy-Go-Lucky
Linklater - Before Sunset | A Scanner Darkly | Tape | School of Rock | Slacker
Liman - Mr and Mrs. Smith
Lungin - Ostrov
Lynch - Mulholland Drive
Maddin - Saddest Music in the World | My Winnipeg
Malick - The New World | Days of Heaven | Badlands
Mann - Collateral
Marker - A Grin Without a Cat
Marsh - Man On Wire
McCarthy - The Visitor
Meirelles - Cidade de Deus
Moffett - Ordinary Radicals
Moskowitz - Stone Reader
Nichols - Shotgun Stories
Nolan - Batman Begins | The Dark Knight
O'Neill - The Decay of Fiction
Pellington - Henry Poole Is Here
Philibert - Etre et avoir
Polish - Northfork
Polley - Away From Her
Powell - Black Narcissus
Proyas - Dark City
Pulcini - American Splendor
Reichardt - Wendy and Lucy
Reygadas - Silent Light
Rohmer - Le rayon vert
Salvatores - I'm Not Scared
Scorsese - Taxi Driver
Sokurov - The Sun | Aleksandra
Snow - Wavelength
Spielberg - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Tarr - Werckmeister Harmonies
Truffaut - Les Quatres Cent Coup
Tykwer - Faubourg St. Denis
von Trier - Dogville
Van Sant - Last Days | Last Days | Elephant | Gerry | Paranoid Park
Winterbottom - In This World
Wyler - The Big Country
Zhang Ke Jai - Unknown Pleasures
Zvyagintsev - The Return
