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The Shawshank Redemption (1994) – 1
[…] sequence {1:59:31-2:00:34} in which Andy and the world are set aright, at least for a time. And having learned the very hardest way of the dire necessity of caring, he will provide as well for his friend Red and their reunion on the gentle sunlit shores of the Pacific. Ah, paradise. written by Roy Anker
Places in the Heart (1984) – 2
[…] the first half of the film, and the close of storm sequence foreshadows one of the most remarkable endings in all of cinema. And that, for sure, is an icon worth hanging on walls everywhere and, yes, in the deep places of the heart. See Reconciliation. written by Roy Anker Places in the Heart 2
Places in the Heart (1984) – 1
[…] The same tranquil reassurance continues in the first scene where we meet the Spalding family: Edna (Sally Field), mother and housewife, the cutest ever, and Royce ( Roy Baker), father and breadwinner and local sheriff, and two darling children, son Frank and daughter Possum, who is just about as cute as her mother. The […]
Lent 2: Christ the Hen
[…] meant watching my favorite TV show, Emergency! I loved that show about two brave paramedics from Squad 51 of the Los Angeles Fire Department. When Johnny and Roy were in danger, my pulse raced. Thanks to my father, who was a real-life volunteer fireman at the time, I even got an old fireman’s helmet […]
Matthew 16:21-28
Proper 17A
[…] future judgement. Illustration Idea The hit HBO show Succession ended with its fourth season in the spring of 2023. It chronicles the media and entertainment mogul Logan Roy and his adult children, sons Kendall and Roman and daughter Shiv (and to a lesser degree, son Connor). As the name of the show suggests, the […]
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
[…] for the sheer pleasure of it, especially with today’s widescreen TVs, audio systems, and a new 40th Anniversary Director’s Cut. A power company lineman in northern Indiana, Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) is an average middle-class guy with wife and noisy offspring. And as the opening scenes show, he also likes things that whistle and […]
Superman (1978) – 2
[…] from boredom, especially in church, exited the theater smiling and exultant as I had never imagined possible. Tell him he had just seen and experienced and felt and known the Jesus story—that he finally got it–and he would have called in my mortgage or some such. Now there’s something to ponder. written by Roy Anker
The Thin Red Line (1998) – 5
[…] blackness or nothingness, the illimitable glory of the ordinary persists even after he falls to physical oblivion. The film, then, becomes a revelatory take on the radical love that pervades all of creation, in the natural and human worlds, in this life and beyond. All 5 entries on this film are 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.
John Adams (2008)
[…] in his life, though he has not coveted any of it. And such brings old John to his knees. Not bad for a walk on a farm named Peacefield. Adams dies soon after—on July 4, 1826, the same day as Thomas Jefferson’s death, on the fiftieth anniversary of the United States. written by Roy Anker
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