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True Grit

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On Movies & Media

Are the Coen Brothers "filmmakers of faith"?

Last weekend, I accepted an invitation to St. Leo University near Tampa, Florida, to participate in a public discussion about — of all things — the movies of the Coen brothers. Brent Short, the school’s director of library services, organized this seminar, and we were joined by Erica Rowell (author of
04 Nov 2016 1 min read
True Grit

True Grit (2010)

Pieces of this review were originally published in Image and Response. * The Coen Brothers’ first Western gives us three important stories to consider. The first is the story of what happens when a young justice seeker, Mattie Ross, hires the ruthless manhunter Rooster Cogburn to track down the vigilante who
20 Jul 2011 3 min read
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