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.

Throughout his papacy Pope Francis referenced ‘La Strada’ in homilies, interviews and public addresses.

As the film’s title promises, there is plenty of sin on display, even before the vampires arrive.

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.

‘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.

During Lent, we are called through death to new life. In “The Way” that journey becomes literal.