In Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” an ordinary electrician has a transcendent encounter—with U.F.O.s, not God.
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‘Stand By Me’: a film about losing childhood innocence—and discovering what is truly good
Being a kid in the summer is all about existing in an eternal present moment, a feeling of freedom and potential that it will never go away.
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Catholic Movie Club: An Iranian film that humanizes ‘the enemy’
In ‘Where is the Friend’s House?,’ we see the faces of the Iranian people captured with sensitivity and detail.
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‘How to Train Your Dragon’ tells the oldest story in human history
You might think an Obama-era film would lose some relevance. But, tragically, “Us vs. Them” is evergreen.
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Lessons on the Francis papacy from ‘The Flowers of St. Francis’
We should seek to live simply, to take only what we need and share what we have, to see ourselves in kinship with all of creation.
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‘The Shoes of the Fisherman’ reveals the lonely life of a pope
The election of a pope is a joyful thing. But in this 1968 film starring Anthony Quinn, being pope is the hardest job in the world.
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Why Fellini’s ‘La Strada’ was Pope Francis’ favorite movie
Throughout his papacy Pope Francis referenced ‘La Strada’ in homilies, interviews and public addresses.
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‘Sinners’: a tale of temptation and transcendence
As the film’s title promises, there is plenty of sin on display, even before the vampires arrive.
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‘The Passion of Joan of Arc’ is the perfect film for Holy Week
Martyrdom finds perhaps its most powerful cinematic expression in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (1928), a classic of the silent film era and widely considered one of the greatest films ever made.
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Robert Bresson’s ‘A Man Escaped’: the Catholic imagination of the 1956 prison break drama
‘A Man Escaped’ is a story of a man seeking temporal salvation, but Robert Bresson’s film takes on deeper meaning, becoming a parable of the Spirit.