Category Archives: Movies

BIRDMAN: Macbeth’s Movie

Birdman’s artists – Alejandro González Iñárritu, Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Antonio Sanchez, Emmanuel Lubezki, Douglas Crise, Stephen Mirrione – will be nominated for all of the major film awards, and they probably deserve to win. But Birdman is deliberately unlike other films: Birdman seeks to have no meaning. That’s right. The artists deliberately conspire to […]

October 24, 2014 – 3:05 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Art, Media, Movies, Theater | Comments (1)

A NOTE FROM SISTER VASSA

  To my great surprise and delight, I received a note from my favorite podcaster, Sister Dr. Vassa Larin, host of the wildly popular video series Coffee with Sister Vassa. Sr. Dr. Vassa is a Russian Orthodox ryassofor nun, author of many scholarly articles and a monograph on Byzantine liturgy and theology, and outspoken public […]

September 28, 2014 – 1:37 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Blog Groups, Books, from Paul, Media, Movies, Quotations, Talks, Television, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theater, Theology | Comments Off on A NOTE FROM SISTER VASSA

What Makes an Audience Like One Character More Than Another?

What makes an audience like one character more than another? This question has bedeviled story makers almost from the beginning of time. Theoreticians tend to think that the characters with attractive traits win the allegiance of the audience. Attractiveness leads to empathy, the ability to project one’s own personality into that of the one being […]

September 17, 2014 – 4:56 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in from Paul, Movies, Quotations, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theology, Uncategorized | Comments Off on What Makes an Audience Like One Character More Than Another?

Coming October 1…

September 11, 2014 – 7:59 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Books, from Paul, Media, Movies, Talks, Theater, Theology, Uncategorized | Comments Off on Coming October 1…

Another book about John Ford? Yes! Thank you!

John Ford, America’s greatest filmmaker, has been dead for forty one years. Since his death, every aspect of his life and films has been examined cinematically, psychologically, historically, mythically, sociologically, symbolically, and religiously. So why does Chicago iconographer Joseph Malham think the world needs another book about John Ford, and a modest three hundred page […]

February 20, 2014 – 2:34 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Books, from Paul, History, Movies | Comments Off on Another book about John Ford? Yes! Thank you!