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Looking Closer Exemplars

A collection of 4 posts

On Movies & Media

Cave full of treasure

In "The Cave and the Cathedral," an essay published in Image, Gregory Wolfe — the founder and editor of Image, and the director of Seattle Pacific University's MFA in Creative Writing program — writes about seeing Werner Herzog's film Cave of Forgotten Dreams, and what this

On Books & Writing

Is there a better review of Raiders on the Internet?

C.S. Lewis once said, "An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only." Ah, but there are so many books! How does one decide which volumes to read a second time? Lewis's line might be revised to apply to moviegoers: Those

On Movies & Media

Fujimura in Neverland

I am reading Refractions, a treasure trove of a book filled with meditations on art, faith, America, China, and the shadows of 9/11, written by the great visual artist and advocate for the arts Makoto Fujimura. And as I was reading this morning, I discovered that it contains a

Witness: a Looking Closer Exemplar review

Witness: a Looking Closer Exemplar review

Sometimes I come across a review that is so complete, so thorough, and so well-written that it really needs nothing from me but a recommendation. Steven Greydanus's look back at Peter Weir's masterful thriller Witness is one of those. But never mind: I'm going