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Looking Closer Classic

A collection of 33 posts

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Looking Closer Becomes a Cover Story

The Seattle Times article is up! (... he says, as he crawls under his desk in bewilderment.) On the front page of the Pacific Northwest Magazine section, it'll appear just ahead of the headline: Slug Bait No More! I owe many thanks to the two fellows responsible for this

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More Mail for CT's Top 10, and My Visit to an SPU Classroom

A couple of days ago, I posted some of the complaints that have come in to CT Movies about the year-end Top Ten List that they posted. And I replied to those complaints. I also used them as material to enliven my presentation when I guest-taught a class for Dr.

My Constantine Adventure: Interviewing Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf, and others.

My Constantine Adventure: Interviewing Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf, and others.

Angels. Demons. Humans caught in the middle. Heroes trying to resist temptation and defeat Satan’s emissaries. Sounds a lot like an adventure yarn from the mind of Frank Perretti. But Francis Lawrence’s action-horror flick Constantine is a far cry from This Present Darkness. While the hero is an

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Feedback: The good, the bad, and the ugly

CT Movies is getting some feedback on the movies chosen by their critics as the Best of 2004. Here are some examples that editor Mark Moring has posted on the site. I'd encourage you to offer your own thoughts on the list. Send feedback to ctmovies@christianitytoday.com.

How David O. Russell turned me into a priest

How David O. Russell turned me into a priest

[An abridged version of this article was originally published at at Christianity Today.] • When I walked into the Fairmont Hotel in downtown Seattle to interview director David O. Russell, I thought I was prepared. A friend had warned me that the man responsible for the new, philosophical existential comedy I

I Dreamed I Interviewed Flannery O'Connor

I Dreamed I Interviewed Flannery O'Connor

I love doing interviews with thoughtful artists. It's one of the greatest thrills of my work. I've had the privilege of interviewing writers like Scott Cairns and Dana Gioia, musicians like Linford Detweiler and Don and Karen Peris, and filmmakers like Patrice Leconte, Spike Jonze, Kevin

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"There's no profanity in my society..."

This letter came to me in response to my article at CT about profanity in the movies. My argument covered a lot of points, including the fact that artists often use their work to hold up a reflection to culture with all of its pros and cons. Thus, art often

Looking Closer Classic

Welcome to the New Looking Closer Journal

Post Update (2012). Well, here it is: The original post of the Looking Closer blog. You've found it. There are posts on this blog that have earlier publication dates, but that's because they were originally published on the Looking Closer website, which was a separate entity