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On Movies & Media

Tarkovsky's Top Ten

At Soul Food Movies, Ron Reed rediscovers Andrei Tarkovsky's top ten movies. Wow. That's a must-see list for all serious cinephiles. Having just seen The Sacrifice, the prominence of Bergman doesn't surprise me. If I hadn't known that The Sacrifice was a

Looking Elsewhere

Specials: Linford Detweiler! Radiohead! Balthazar!

Today's specials: * "We often end up writing the music that we need to hear at the time." My latest interview with Over the Rhine's Linford Detweiler is up! * Radiohead's OK Computer is the best album of the last 20 years, says Spin

On Movies & Media

Chattaway goes to a lecture by Ron Reed

What happens when a reviewer I admire goes to hear a lecture by a stage-director and film critic I admire? Here's Peter T. Chattaway pondering a lecture by Ron Reed, and considering "the way art functions as oblation -- the way it takes common elements, offers them

What's a Parable?

My friend Ron Reed happened to quote writer C.H. Dodd today in offering the definition of the word "parable." Ron referenced this in summing up the virtues of The Return, my favorite film of 2004. It struck me that, while this definition sums up Jesus's

On Movies & Media

Ron Reed: Spiritually Significant Films

Film critic Ron Reed considers the Arts & Faith Top 100 Spiritually Significant Films today at CT. Nicely done, Ron!

The Rookie (2002): guest review and film forum

The Rookie (2002): guest review and film forum

The following review was contributed to Looking Closer by guest reviewer Ron Reed, and the Film Forum was published at Christianity Today. • Ron Reed: When there's an envelope taped to a birthday present, you pretty much know what's going to be inside, but that doesn'