“Harlan County, USA” is an incredible piece of documentary filmmaking because it’s also an amazing portrait of courage and solidarity.
Film
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Catholic Movie Club: The hard truths about family and forgiveness in ‘Rachel Getting Married’
In Anne Hathaway’s Kym, we see the hard truth about forgiveness: sometimes we have the most difficulty forgiving ourselves or seeking forgiveness from those who love us most.
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Catholic Movie Club: ‘Frances Ha’ glimpses flawed people from God’s perspective
“Frances Ha” allows us to see Frances the way God might see her. We see her flaws, but we also see how hard she’s trying.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
The Case Against ‘Dead Poets Society’
Mr. Keating and his real-life counterparts now dominate secondary and post secondary education. That’s a problem.
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The Catholic woman who mastered the art of a brutal movie review
Over 27 years beginning in 1947, Moira Walsh wrote over 750 movie reviews for America—each one possessed of an invincible authorial voice and informed by an encyclopedic knowledge of film history.
Posted inFaith, Interviews
‘Mother Teresa of Honduras’: ‘With this Light’ profiles nun’s 70 years of ministry
“She was so inspiring, but she was also so human. She’d get herself in trouble, and she knew it,” co-director Nicole Bernardi-Reis said of Sister María Rosa Leggol in an interview with America.
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Catholic Movie Club: The wounded healers of ‘Short Term 12’
‘How can we put our woundedness in the service of others?’ This film provides one answer.
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Catholic Movie Club: The strange and silly image of heaven in ‘Pee-wee’s Big Adventure’
In his first and best known film, Pee-wee Herman approaches the world, and others, with simple joy and trust.
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‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ have more in common than memes. They’re both about forgiveness.
Neither Barbie nor Oppenheimer directly apologizes or asks for forgiveness, and neither can truly dismantle the damage they have done.
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‘The destroyer of worlds’: 75 years of ‘America’ on Oppenheimer
A new movie treats the life of Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb”—and someone whose exploits and commentaries received much treatment in ‘America’ over the years.