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In Media Unlimited, Todd Gitlin writes about the impact of media on our lives, and says that we live in something more than an information age: The centrality of media is disguised, in part, by the prevalence of that assured, hard-edged phrase information society, or even more grandly, information age. Such terms are instant propaganda for [...] It is easy to portray human brokenness and the dismantling of the human soul cinematically. Indeed, the world is overflowing with such films. However, what is rare and exceedingly difficult to portray is the wonder of human redemption, the power of unconditional love, the presence of genuine goodness, the reality of hope and the boundless [...] Nothing is so beautiful and wonderful, nothing is so continually fresh and surprising, so full of sweet and perpetual ecstacy, as the good. No desert is so dreary, monotonous, and boring as evil. This is the truth about authentic good and evil. With fictional good and evil it is the other way round. Fictional good [...] Almost as soon as I’d posted, the feed from Ebert’s blog brought news of a second, more in-depth post on Antichrist. He starts by noting that the film ‘will not leave me alone’ and goes on to say, ‘I rarely find a serious film by a major director to be this disturbing. Its images are [...] Roger Ebert’s comments about ‘Antichrist’ by Lars von [...] Some brief comments on Richard [...] An article by Tony Watkins on Angels and Demons, directed by Ron Howard and based on the novel by Dan [...] A round-up of some of the more useful image libraries for sourcing material for on-screen [...] Jeffrey Overstreet interviews Charlie Kaufman for Image Journal (10 November 2008) Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York finally reaches UK cinemas this week. I’m really looking forward to this, though I know it will be somewhat weird and bleak. Kaufman is best known for writing the screenplays for Being John Malkovich (dir. Spike Jonze, 1999) and Eternal [...] Some quotes from Lewis and Tolkien on fairy [...] Article by Tony Watkins on Star [...] Article by Tony Watkins (first published on Culturewatch) about Henry Selick’s film adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s book, [...] |
Tony Watkins is a writer and speaker on Christian faith and contemporary culture, with a particular interest in film. He is the Managing Editor of Culturewatch. |
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