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Doubt (John Patrick Shanley, 2008)
BY: R. Greg Grooms
How do you feel about people who are certain? Do you find them attractive, admirable, encouraging? Often the attractiveness of certainty depends on who embodies it.
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Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008)
BY: Wesley Hill
A film like Milk confronts us with a poignant, at times heartrendingly beautiful portrayal of loving, caring, loneliness-diminishing gay relationships. How should we respond?
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Lumière v. Méliès: Cinematic Dichotomy
BY: Matthew Hundley
Can there be true “truth” in cinema? That quest dates back to the inception of the film medium and the idealogies of the Lumière brothers pitted against those of Georges Méliès.
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Valkyrie (Bryan Singer, 2008)
BY: R. Greg Grooms
Valkyrie is a deeply flawed film flirting with questions it never quite raises. And then there's Tom Cruise. Why do we watch?
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Stranger Than Fiction (Mark Forster, 2006)
BY: Denis Haack
In one of his finest performances to date, Will Ferrell uses his comedic gifts to raise some of the deepest questions of life in the film Stranger Than Fiction. It’s a film that makes you laugh, and think.
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Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005)
Matrix Reloaded (Andy & Larry Wachowski, 2003)
Garden State (Zach Braff, 2004)
Hotel Rwanda (Terry George, 2004)
Big Fish (Tim Burton, 2003)
Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
Inherit the Wind (Stanley Kramer, 1960)
Big Kahuna (John Swanbeck, 1999)
Chicago (Rob Marshall, 2002)
Chocolat (Lasse Hallström, 2000)
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The events transpiring around the world make it hard, sometimes, to feel certain that the details of ordinary life have much meaning in the cosmic scheme of things. Airplanes fall out of the sky into the ocean, wars that have raged for decades blunder on, and lovely friends find themselves struggling with loneliness or job loss or a job so mind-numbingly boring as to seem unjust. In such a reality, listening carefully and discussing thoughtfully are not luxuries but necessities. This web site is one way we attempt to nourish such conversation.
Denis & Margie
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