My Box of 64: the new Looking Closer audio journal!

In which I launch the new LookingCloser.org audio journal. Take your first step into a larger world... of creativity, conversation, and community!


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Song to Song (2017)

The latest Terrence Malick pageant of glamorous lovers and their interior-monologues meanders into monotony.


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Q&O: What should I see this week?

It's the post-Oscar-season slump, when studios typically dump their trash into theaters. If I have an itch to go to the movies, what's actually worth seeing?


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Cameraperson (2016)

I don't think I'm going to see a film in 2017 that affects me as powerfully, or that excites me as cinematically, as Cameraperson.


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Why Watership Down belongs alongside Narnia and Middle-Earth

Among the many artists we lost in 2016, the one who influenced me the most passed away on Christmas Eve. Without his imagination, I might have lived a very different life.


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Looking Closer with Jeffrey Overstreet

(now the ears of my ears awake andnow the eyes of my eyes are opened)

– e. e. cummings, “i thank You God for most this amazing”