2015’s best films for a church basement film club?
January 12, 2016
If you were starting a "Looking Closer Movie Club" in your church basement, inviting adventurous viewers from your congregation, which films might be best to consider sharing with them? Discover the 2015 Arts and Faith Ecumenical Jury Awards.
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Golden Globe Tribute
January 10, 2016
Does Radiohead get an honorary Golden Globe for writing a better Spectre song than Sam Smith did?
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Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015): a guest review
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January 10, 2016
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2015: Overstreet’s Favorite Films
January 2, 2016
Note: I will continue to add brief reviews to this post as the weekend progresses. But since I said I'd post this list on New Year's Eve, and it is now two days late, I'm posting the bare-bones list now.
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Overstreet’s Favorite Recordings: 2015 — Part Two
January 1, 2016
Sufjan Stevens, Kendrick Lamar, Torres, Courtney Barnett... and many, many more make up my Favorite Recordings of 2015 countdown. Listen to your favorites and make some new discoveries.
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Looking Closer’s New Year’s Party
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January 1, 2016
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
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December 25, 2015
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Bret Lott and the Ambition contest winners
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December 24, 2015
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and Wardrobe (2005)
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December 24, 2015
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The Partains’ Christmas Playlist
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December 20, 2015
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Stations of the Cross (2015)
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December 19, 2015
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Tomorrow’s film critics today: Sierra Richter
December 14, 2015
Is there a future in film criticism? Are young people just consuming movies, or are some of them really thinking about what they mean and how they mean it? This series will introduce four high school students who might become tomorrow's film critics.
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Writers of Ambition: a roundtable interview
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December 13, 2015
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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”