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Motivation Monday: For the Beauty of the Wasatch
For today’s Motivation Monday, here’s a picture of where The Burner is this week: Park City, Utah for the Windrider Forum at the Sundance Film Festival. For several years, the Windrider Forum and...
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Motivation Monday: The Best Moment of Sundance
The Burner teased you over the weekend about the Q&A after Matthew Chapman’s screening of The Ledge at Sundance on last Friday night. As you can read here, and here, reviews were mixed. It didn’t...
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Interview with HIGHER GROUND director Vera Farmiga by David Moore
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. –Rainer Maria Rilke The phone rang. “Hi, it’s Vera.” Thus began a charming conversation with actress and...
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The Tree of Life: The Intersection of the Transcendent and the Daily — A Review
I have long been attracted to films about memory and dreams (I may be the only person who actually enjoyed Vanilla Sky), but I found many attempts made to visualize memory too plot-laden to be...
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CLOUD ATLAS: A Cloud of Witnesses?
Cloud Atlas is the latest film from the Wachowskis – the siblings responsible for The Matrix trilogy. The prominent tagline that has been used in promoting Cloud Atlas is “Everything is Connected.”...
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Whither the Wolf?
I’m late to the party. People with whose cinematic opinions I respect (Laura Turner here, walking cinematic encyclopedia Eugene Suen here) have already written on true-story The Wolf of Wall Street,...
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The Christology of The LEGO Movie
Five years in the making, The LEGO Movie opened this weekend and ruled the box office. While the movie is getting some criticism for it’s bald-faced ‘marketing-disguised-as-story’ cash grab, the...
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Obligatory NOAH Post Because Bible Movies
Did you know that Fuller’s Brehm Center has a film and theology division? Reel Spirituality is great–and a great resource to the Church with its even-handed thoughts on faith and film (and faith in...
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