Grand Canyon (1991) – 1
[…] souls for personal eternal bliss but situates that within a larger scheme of cosmic redemption and sanctification, to use the old lingo, wherein we all become fitting, loving members of the kingdom of God, no matter who or what. There aren’t any strangers or outcasts or enemies in God’s holy company. written by Roy Anker
Three Colors: Blue (1993)
[…] not heard at all, but you are the music/ While the music lasts… **A full treatment of this stunning film, “The Sound of the Color of Love: The Construction of Meaning in Kieslowski’s Three Colors: Blue,“ is found in Anker’s Catching Light: Looking for God in the Movies (Eerdmans, 2004): 364-401. Article written by Roy Anker.
Dark Knight (2008) & More
[…] no limits. All the while, an antipode, the premise for everything, hidden in plain sight, with its own wild, wholly unforeseeable crux: “For God so loved the world”—no asterisks for exceptions therein. That is, all, every side, foe, shape, hue, and gender, trans and otherwise. And even the Yankees. Fancy that. written by Roy Anker
Wonder Woman (2017)
[…] worked for the film’s title, rather muddying the nature of its content; giving away its surprise up front. The question is always about the purposes for which she deploys her remarkable powers, and the answer to that question is the true wonder of both WW’s being and Wonder Woman the film. written by Roy Anker
Heaven (2002)
[…] Dekalog (1988), directed by Kieslowski, a ten-part series on the Ten Commandments done for Polish television (it is available in a new edition from Criterion, the Rolls- Royce of DVD production). After the Iron Curtain fell in 1988 the pair undertook a trilogy, Three Colors, each film taking its inspiration from one of the […]
A Man Called Ove (2015) – 2
[…] look like. After all, even ornery Ove has grasped that wrong lies not just in what people do or don’t do but in what we deep-down think and feel. “There is no health in us,” as the liturgy announces. We should be so lucky—stripped naked only to be clothed, at last. written by Roy Anker
A Man Called Ove (2015) – 1
[…] than ever, to know what life is for, namely all that connectedness and mutual relish and aid and reconciliation. The film’s final shot is a long way from the Sistine Chapel and the Father reaching to humankind, but it surely hearkens to the same richest gifts of connectedness and genuine intimacy. written by Roy Anker
Superman (1978) – 1
[…] no one knows (maybe she had a good nap while the kids watched?), it might well have been the wild hope that for a humanity weary and heavy-laden there just might be an exultant kindly rescue such as that just depicted with high comic elan. That is the hope, after all. written by Roy Anker
Grand Canyon (1991) – 2
[…] initiated by a blind date arranged by Mack. So what do you think now, asks Mack of Simon? “Not all bad,” or dark, says Simon, after which the camera departs in ecstatic musical flight over the canyon. This is, for sure, the way it is supposed to be. Alleluia, and amen. written by Roy Anker
Séraphine (2008)
[…] numinous manifest (Dillard). At one point the film references St. Teresa’s counsel that one can find the majesty of God in the scrubbing of cooking pots. And everywhere else too, and we all can see it as well. Séraphine of Senlis, as she is now known, shows it to be so. written by Roy Anker
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