Looking Elsewhere

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Specials: Rosenbaum on "Three Burials." Walter on "Crash." And the sequel we've all been waiting for.

Monday specials: "A QUIRKY COWBOY MASTERPIECE" Jonathan Rosenbaum raves about Tommy Lee Jones' directorial debut: The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. There are elements in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada that I tend to distrust when they crop up in other movies. There's the

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More specials: "Rabbi Paul" - the movie! Focus on the Family and "Spear" in NY Times. More Pullman poop. Peet joins Perry and Sorkin.

RABBI PAUL - THE MOVIE This just popped up at DoneDeal. Log line: The life story of Saul of Tarsus who, due to divine intervention, turns his life around and becomes the founder of Christianity and the Apostle Paul. Writer: Bruce Chilton (author) Agent: n/a Buyer: Mandalay and Prelude

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Specials: Coen Brothers. Sufjan Stevens. Snake & Hamster. And Bono's words to the National Prayer Breakfast.

Friday specials: COEN BROTHERS' NEXT MOVIE! Tommy Lee Jones gives credit to Flannery O'Connor and The Book of Ecclesisates in talking about his new film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. Amy Wellborn noted this Boston Globe article today. NIGHTWATCH TRAILER YIKES... that's a freaky

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Specials: Auralia. Superman and Che pics. Whit Stillman. A follow-up to "Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner." Michel Gondry + Dave Chappelle.

Thursday specials: PRAY FOR AURALIA AND ME I'd appreciate your prayers. It's not a crisis, but in the story of my life, it's a big deal. For the next four days, I will be putting the finishing touches on my novel Auralia's

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Wednesday specials: The Natvity! Chris Penn. Matthewes-Green on "Paradise Now." Da Vinci Decoded. Pixar. Amber Alert. X3 posers.

Wednesday's specials:REMEMBER WHEN I ASKED WHO WILL MAKE A MOVIE OF THE NATIVITY?This just popped up at Done Deal, the script sales site: Title: Nativity Log line: Centers on the two-year period of Mary and Joseph's life, culminating in their leaving Nazareth and journeying

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Specials: Beware Knightley! Moring interviews Emma Thompson. Evangelical NY Times Writer: Oxymoron? Shea on Spear.

WHAT I'M SEEING TODAY Tsotsi. Anybody else here seen it?IS KEIRA KNIGHTLEY'S SMILE DANGEROUS? Can you look away from that smile? It has a strange and dismaying power. I mean, look at her! There's something almost violent about that smile. She's

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Specials: Sundance review. Walter's "New World" rave. "Lost" money. DaVinci debut. X3 pic. New mom Jessica Poundstone. And Seahawks.

Monday specials:SUNDANCE ME TO THE END OF MEDIOCRE FILMSGreenCine coverage of the Sundance Film Festival is almost too expansive to comprehend. So many movies, so many reviews. From a review of Thank You for Smoking that calls it "I Heart Huckabees For Dummies," to a review of

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Specials: Sam Rockwell! Spear-ited debate! EIEIO!

Seattle Seahawk Sunday specials: SAM ROCKWELL IS (not)... BATMAN! If you really want to see what happens when Sam Rockwell puts on a Batman suit, click here, then click on the image from the film. Don't say I didn't warn you. (PG-13-level content) THE MUNICH WARSGreenCine

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Specials: Allende & Walden; Slamming "End of the Spear"

Tuesday specials: The New York Times looks at Walden Media's Isabel Allende project. The Village Voice seeks to impale End of the Spear, the new film based on the famous and true missionary story Through Gates of Splendor. ...its Davey and Goliath dogmatism comes through as loud and

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Specials: Helprin's caution. "Serenity 2"? How "Hoodwinked" Happened. "The White Countess." SNL.

Sunday's specials: What a friendly neighborhood I live in! This morning, I'm walking around the streets of Shoreline, Washington, and as I'm waiting at a crosswalk, I see in the window of the house next to me... ...a wooden cross... ... a Bush/Cheney poster.

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Specials: Download a free Narnia script. Brad baby. Wheaton vs. Catholics.

Thursday specials: WHAT DID MR. BEAVER SAY? The official script of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe isn't easy to get. But fans have put one together, if you're willing to read their version... BRAD AND ANGELINA'S BABY NAMED

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Specials: Sarris on where "Brokeback" is broken. Pretty woman, Gump may join Mike Nichols. CNN on religious media.

Wednesday's specials: SARRIS DARES TO SHRUG OFF BROKEBACK MOUNTAINCourageously stating some of the obvious problems with Brokeback Mountain, Andrew Sarris demonstrates that he's willing to swim upstream against the tidal wave of hype: Besides, the problem of the economic disparity between lower-middle-class Ennis and upper-middle-class Jack

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Specials: "Bourne 3... 3 as the Wind..." Plus: Indy 4, Jurassic 4, "Capote" beats "Brokeback." Praising "The New World."

Monday is Sequel News Day! "BOURNE THREE... THREE AS THE WIND..." For updates on The Bourne Ultimatum, Indy 4, and Jurassic Park 4, click here. (Looks like Jason Bourne may have a new main squeeze. And no, it's not Ben Affleck.) NATIONAL SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS

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Specials: Wong at Cannes. Vote against Pedro. Chattaway's Top 10. "New World" cut. "Pan's Labyrinth." "Horror porn." "Scanner Darkly." "Fateless."

Wednesday's specals:President of this year's Cannes Film Festival jury... Wong Kar-wai! Fantastic. This should make for some very interesting choices. Can't wait to see who else is on the jury. (Thanks, Opus, for the link.) No more Pedro the Lion. Please welcome... David

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Specials: Defending Munich. Chesterton's blog. Chattaway on Cassanova and Munich. London Critics.

Friday specials: DEFENDING MUNICHHere's a forceful, well-composed defense of Steven Spielberg's Munich, which I think is his most restrained, mature, and challenging film since... oh... 1987's Empire of the Sun. (It's at Salon, so if you don't subscribe, just click

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Specials: Amy Wellborn - Vigilant. Adam Walter - literate. Chewbacca - full of Christmas spirit. Teachout - thirsty for music.

Open Book, Amy Wellborn's blog, continues to be an essential stop on my daily tour, for her relentless vigilance. Here's one of the recent highlights, regarding mainstream media and faith. Other blog entries worth noting: Adam Walter discovers the new Mark Helprin Web site. I visited

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Specials: Glen Workshop 2006! Narnia strudel. "V for Vendetta" trailer

Thursday's specials: JOIN ME AT THE GLEN WORKSHOP, 2006 From the new Image Update: The Glen Workshop is an illuminating conference on the arts and religion, where participants practice and strengthen their craft and vision in community. This weeklong event combines the best elements of a workshop, an

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Specials: Guardian defends Narnia. Malick's "New World." Haneke spoils. Earthsea animated.

Tuesday's specials: I found most of these links at GreenCine Daily, and I'm glad I did. GUARDIAN GUARDS CHRISTIANITY FROM GUARDIAN JOURNALISTS (AND OTHERS) The Guardian, home of the now-notorious Polly Toynbee who used her Narnia review to bash Christianity, bashes Narnia critics! The Bible is

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Specials: David Brooks on "Munich." Plus, NY Online Critics' Awards, LA Critics' awards.

Sunday's specials: David Brooks reviews Munich! In Spielberg's Middle East the only way to achieve peace is by renouncing violence. But in the real Middle East the only way to achieve peace is through military victory over the fanatics, accompanied by compromise between the reasonable elements

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Specials: Hand Puppet Theater does "Serenity"

Friday specials: GLOBAL WARMINGS Ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the long-awaited return of the President of the United States... Will Ferrell. MAL... THE PUPPET Maybe this version will finally win Serenity the respect it deserves. LARK NEWS STRIKES AGAIN Pastor wins "Most Relevant" award.

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Thursday specials: Austen, Awards, Depp, and... Babar?

Thursday's specials: AUSTEN AGAIN My full review (basically, an extended version of my blog entry) for Pride and Prejudice is up now at the Looking Closer movie page. THE AWARDS-MADNESS BEGINS The Awards season has really begun now. Capote (in my top ten, probably) and Murderball (still haven&

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Looking Elsewhere: November 26, 2005

Saturday's specials: I'm hoping Pride and Prejudice is the beginning of a turnaround for this movie year. In the next several days, I'll be seeing Woody Allen's Match Point, Andrew Adamson's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and

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Looking Elsewhere: November 25, 2005

Friday's specials: WAX OFF Farewell, Pat Morita. DAILY MAIL CRITIC GOES BANANAS FOR NARNIA Sheeesh! It is not just a 'must see' but a 'must see again and again'. Where is that sixth star when you need it? Not only does it miraculously do

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Looking Elsewhere: November 22, 2005

Tuesday's specials THE WAR IS OVER. Oprah... Dave. Dave... Oprah. I expect a talk-show troop withdrawl will follow straightaway. QUAID TALKS ABOUT HIS CHRISTIAN FAITH Meditation, he says, should be yours... mine... ours.... "IT'S UNDERWHELMING!" "IT'S LESS THAN ORIGINAL!" Critics

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Looking Elsewhere: November 21, 2005

Monday's specials: Will Your Pastor's Sermon win Narnia Sermon Contest?In other words, can your pastor be bribed into lacing your Sunday morning worship with Hollywood propaganda? What's that? Is that the sound of a whip lashing in the foyer? And who's