Category Archives: Movies

Kenneth Branaugh and Rob Ashford’s THE WINTER’S TALE arrives

The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare, the first offering of Kenneth Branaugh’s Plays at the Garrick, arrived on American movie screens last evening. After an interminable unedited film of the Garrick audience doing nothing but sitting, the production began, the American audience not as well-disposed as it had been forty minutes earlier when the unedited […]

December 1, 2015 – 8:42 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in from Paul, History, Mini-Review, Movies, Theater, Videos | Comments Off on Kenneth Branaugh and Rob Ashford’s THE WINTER’S TALE arrives

SFO’s SHOWBOAT: New Excellence in Live Performance Recording

The recently released two disc DVD of the San Francisco Opera’s 2014 production of Hammerstein and Kern’s pioneer opera Showboat is a treat for many reasons. First, rarely has the art of live performance recording been practiced to such great effect than by screen director Frank Zamacona and his EuroArts team. The shots are beautifully […]

July 21, 2015 – 1:55 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in from Paul, Media, Movies, Opera, Television, Theater, Videos | Comments Off on SFO’s SHOWBOAT: New Excellence in Live Performance Recording

AMERICAN SNIPER: The Sheepdog

The great films of Clint Eastwood have a fascination with the nature of male friendship. From Unforgiven through Invictus, Gran Torino, Letters from Iwo Jima, Flags of Our Fathers, Mystic River, and even Jersey Boys, the director has explored philia (brotherly love) with a depth and understanding rare in any other director. At times Eastwood’s […]

January 30, 2015 – 4:18 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Current Events, from Paul, Movies, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theology, Uncategorized, World Affairs | Comments Off on AMERICAN SNIPER: The Sheepdog

EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS: The Wrong Protagonist

The differences between the Exodus story according to film director Ridley Scott and the Biblical account of the Exodus is in the chosen protagonist (chief actor; hero). Ridley Scott casts Moses as the protagonist; the story is about him. The Bible recounts the heroic actions of God; the story is about Him. Scott’s Moses is […]

January 6, 2015 – 9:45 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Books, from Paul, History, Movies, The Gospel of the Kingdom | Comments (1)

ST. VINCENT: Bill Murray Explains It All

Bill Murray has played a remarkable collection of curmudgeons and misanthropes – Tripper, Carl Spackler, John Winger, Dr. Peter Venkman, Frank Cross, Bob Wiley, Phil Connors, Frank Milo, Ernie McCracken, Wallace Ritchie, Herman Blume, and Raleigh St. Clair among them. All seem as warmups to Vincent McKenna in Theodore Melfi’s St. Vincent. Vincent McKenna is […]

October 28, 2014 – 11:14 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in from Paul, Movies, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theology | Comments Off on ST. VINCENT: Bill Murray Explains It All