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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Inspiring lovers in an uninspired movie
David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike make A United Kingdom 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”