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Issue 40: Faith

October 2016

The Varieties of Religious Experience

Matt Brennan·
Issue 40: Faith
This is the work of The Leftovers, The Americans, and Rectify, three TV series that treat the total reaction, and not simply the doctrine.
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Taste and See

Alyce Youngblood·
Issue 40: Faith
When I watch shows like Chef’s Table or Cooked, something stirs within me—like flavor from rot, and life from death.
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The Road Out of Utopia

Anna Sjogren·
Issue 40: Faith
Captain Fantastic is a profound story of transformation for the patriarch.
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Frames of Reference

Ian Maxton·
Issue 40: Faith
Nostalghia is a film about waiting, about the long journey before the arrival.
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The Cinematic Saint: Joan of Arc

Joel Mayward·
Issue 40: Faith
Out of all the saints and religious figures, what is so compelling about her story? Why do we keep making and watching Joan of Arc movies?
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A Slow and Fragile Process

David Nilsen·
Issue 40: Faith
Ingmar Bergman felt terrified both at the idea of God’s existence and God’s nonexistence.
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Jesus Christ, Doubting Thomas: The Last Temptation of Christ and Last Days in the Desert

Sarah Welch-Larson·
Issue 40: Faith
Both The Last Temptation of Christ and Last Days in the Desert attempt to answer the question, “What was Jesus the human like?”
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The Hermit Saints of American Movie

Adam Hofbauer·
Issue 40: Faith
Smith’s film evokes the slacker-cum-loser aesthetic so wedded to the period, but American Movie occupies a space of spiritual resonance deeper than its period aesthetic.
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Sitting in Judgment

Charles King·
Issue 40: Faith
Defending Your Life posits a Heaven in which the value on one's life is based solely on living fearlessly
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Radical Divergence: Engaging with Faith in Midnight Special

Katherine Taylor·
Issue 40: Faith
Autism in film is not new although very few movies acknowledge their characters as neurodivergent. It seems easier to sideline us as aliens.
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It’s Cold Out There Every Day

Alex Dabertin·
Issue 40: Faith
I watch Groundhog Day the same way some people read the Bible. In many ways, movies helped raise me, and became my religion, the tapestry of images I used to understand my world.
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Tommy (1975)

Arielle Greenberg·
Issue 40: Faith
Late 60s, and Jesus freaks and gurus buzzing around like fruit flies.
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