Due to a series of unfortunate events I recently watched the super Holywood production “Legion”. Five minutes into the movie I wished I was not there and by the end I concluded that nothing is sacred to the film industry. The movie is an apocaliptical thriller about the destruction of humankind by God that got fed-up [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Evening Film Dialogues'
Concerning Angels by Metropolitan ISAIAH of Denver
January 26th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: angels · Archangels · Orders · orthodox · Tradition
Tarkovsky’s Mirror – Stop doing what you think you should be doing
February 27th, 2009 No Comments
The “Mirror”, the fourth film in Tarkovsky’s line-up of 7 cinematographic wonders, is not made for the casual observer. It has no classic plot, it is anchored in a society that is far, far away, and most of all has no happy ending.
Tags: Cinema · mirror · Resurrection · Russian · tarkovsky
The Monastery – Mr. Vig and the Nun
February 4th, 2009 No Comments
The Monastery: Mr Vig & The Nun
Tags: Evening Film Dialogues · Monastery · orthodox
One of the best movies I’ve seen
December 18th, 2008 No Comments
Since next week due to Christmas services schedule we are not going to have our monthly Film Dialogues I thought about reminding you of a movie that we’ve seen about an year ago that I think we need to see over and over as refresher.
The movie, for those that haven’t seen it yet, is about a man that becomes a monk…
Tags: Jesus Prayer · Monastery · Monks · movie · orthodox · Russian
The Nativity Story
November 24th, 2008 No Comments
If you liked that post, then try these…The true Christmas spirit or Putting back Christ into XmasChrist in the Bible SeriesWho’s Bible is it?
Tags: Christ · Evening Film Dialogues · Nativity
A love divided – the true story behind the movie
October 23rd, 2008 No Comments
LOVE CONQUERS ALL; But for decades a village paid the price of
AMANDA DOHERTY
IT was one of Ireland’s most shocking episodes. The mixed marriage of Sean and Sheila Cloney hit the headlines in the 1950s when it led to the bitter Fethard-on-Sea boycott in Co Wexford.
Catholics refused to buy goods from their Protestant neighbours after Sheila [...]
Tags: challenges · dialogues · Evening Film Dialogues · interfaith · marriage
The Tiger and the Snow
October 3rd, 2008 No Comments
I found this interesting article, although quite difficult to read in its entirety, about Roberto Benigni’s movie we watched last week. See bellow some excerpts. Full article here (not free however…)
“Robert Benigni’s most recent movie ‘La tigre e la neve’ (The tiger and the snow, 2005, Italy, available both in English and Italian) deserves the [...]
Tags: benigni · Evening Film Dialogues · iraq · love · sacrifice
