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The Glen Workshop

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Paterson (2021)

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Paterson (2021)

One of the most important discoveries of this year's Glen Workshop was this: Not enough people have seen Jim Jarmusch's Paterson. Here's my original review.

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Best movies of 2016: Wilkinson, McLenithan, & me

On Wednesday night, I had the privilege of joining my friends Alissa Wilkinson and Kevin McLenithan for an in-depth discussion of the best things we've watched on screens this year. Each of us listed our top three, made our case for their greatness, and then listed a bunch

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Introducing... Scott Derrickson.

Filmmaker Scott Derrickson's presentation at the Glen Workshop on "dark transcendence" was challenging, to say the least. I wish I could share it with all of you. But you kinda had to be there. I can, however, share my introduction with you, so you can learn a little more about this guy. I have quit

You never know who might be sitting next to you at The Glen Workshop

In 2010, I had the privilege of leading the Film Seminar at the Glen Workshop in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I was a student posing as an instructor, a film enthusiast more interested in learning about movies from classroom discussion than in expounding upon my own movie-going experience. Still, it

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Looking back at Glen West 2011: Six movies in five days.

The theme of the 2011 Glen Workshop in Santa Fe, New Mexico was "Acts of Attention: Art as Discovery." It lived up to the name. For seven days, Gregory Wolfe and the Image team served up a feast of art, insight, exploration, discussion, and discoveries. I've

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July 31, 2011: Only 20 moviegoers get this chance.

Will you be one of them? On a day of glorious Santa Fe sunshine, we will walk into a dark room, watch a movie, and then go out for a meal together. We'll talk about the film. And then we'll enjoy a leisurely afternoon of music,

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It's happening again: Join me for a week of movies and discussion.

What happened when the lights went out in Room 105? I've written about it here, in today's Good Letters post at ImageJournal.org. I was in a classroom at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, watching six of my favorite movies with

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I'm Back. Watch Out.

It's a new day at LookingCloser.org... I've just returned from The Glen Workshop, my favorite week of the year: A seven day celebration of the arts hosted by Image journal in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Readings, concerts, lectures, art exhibits, meals, conversations, parties, excursions, exercise,

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Is LookingCloser.org Having a Film Festival?

No, not quite. But the truth is even better. Image is hosting yet another week of art, conversation, lectures, concerts, food, and friendship in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico this August. And I'm thrilled and honored to be hosting a week-long seminar: "Beyond Blockbusters: Entering the Mind

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Occasional blogging this week: I'm relaxing and writing in Santa Fe.

I'm sitting at The Tea House on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, working on Cal-raven's Ladder. It's the week of the Glen Workshop, my favorite week of the year. I'm surrounded by writers and artists and musicians I admire. Tonight I'

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Live from Santa Fe

A courtyard waterfall is splashing down into a koi pond here, playing the same music that plays in the closing moment of Malick's The New World. Water skippers are flitting about on the surface on their tiny skates, barely troubling the surface. Beneath the lily pads, koi of

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Glen Workshop Alert!

Click on the ad* to see the large-sized version. Here comes the 2007 Glen Workshop! *This is the first time a photograph of mine has ever been used in an ad. And it was just a spur-of-the-moment snapshot out the window of Over the Rhine's car.... Thanks to

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Visitor!

So, I'm sitting here preparing for my interview, jotting down some notes, and look what crawls out from under the couch! I love New Mexico!

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Film Forum is Up... Thanks to Chattaway

Still basking in the greatness of the Glen Workshop. Just had tearful goodbyes with several of the fiction writers with whom I formed strong bonds this week. Things are wrapping up in a hurry now. Sigh. I could live with this community, and it would bear many resemblances to my

Hiatus Report #2: Over the Rhine Rocks the Glen

Just a quick post, and then I'm off to do homework for tomorrow's workshop. Last night, I had the overwhelming thrill of introducing Over the Rhine before their concert at the Glen Workshop. I barely got the words out around the lump in my throat, but

Hiatus Report #1

Ha! I found an available computer at the library at St. John's College in Santa Fe, so I'll just give you these juicy tidbits about my week so far. I'm in a week-long fiction workshop with Erin McGraw, an author I hadn't

Anne and I are Coming to Santa Fe, NM.

Have you considered The Glen Workshop? Poetry - Andrew Hudgins, B.H. Fairchild Fiction - Erin McGraw Spiritual Writing - Paula Huston Playwriting/Screenwriting - Arlene Hutton Seminar - Elmer Yazzie Life Drawing - Barry Moser Mixed Media - Barry Krammes Watercolor - Laura Lasworth Musicians-in-Residence - Over the Rhine