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‘Into Great Silence’: An Experiment in Movie-Meditation
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Donna Freitas
Audiences will either find director Philip Gröning’s “Into Great Silence“—an almost three hour film chronicling the silent lives of the Carthusian monks at Grande Chartreuse, a stunning but austere monastery perched high up in the French Alps–a masterpiece or the most boring movie they ever saw. Like the days and nights of this tiny group…
‘The Reaping’: Ten Plagues, No God
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jmcgee
I always dreamed of the day when a Hollywood director would have the courage to transform a biblical disaster story into a big screen blockbuster. I thought my dream had come true when I saw the posters for “The Reaping,” a film that depicts a modern day onslaught of the ten plagues. The film focuses…
Charlotte’s Inspiring ‘Web’ Now on DVD
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Kris Rasmussen
Perhaps it’s no accident that a movie about finding the miraculous in the ordinary is being released during this Holy Week of Passover and Easter. No, I am not talking about the recent DVD release of the religious drama “The Nativity,” but that inspirational family charmer “Charlotte’s Web,” now available on DVD this week. While…
Return of ‘The Peaceful Warrior’
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mkress
“The Peaceful Warrior,” starring Nick Nolte, returns to theaters this weekend following its short-lived limited release last summer. In this screen version of Dan Millman’s “The Way of the Peaceful Warrior,” a young gymnast finds hope and learns to achieve his full potential with the help of Nolte’s service-station mechanic/wise spiritual mentor, dubbed Socrates by…
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