Tag: Noah

• Favorite Films of 2014

  Because synchronicity has been on my mind recently, I wondered while considering my favorite films of 2014 if any of them were thematically aligned, explicitly or otherwise. Turns out they are. The ten-ish films that lodged themselves into my brain this year naturally arranged themselves into pairs or groups—some odd ones, to be sure, but nevertheless interesting. I…

  Jan 11, 2015

  # best of, Boyhood, Calvary, film, Ida, Interstellar, Life Itself, lists, Locke, movies, Noah, review, Snowpiercer, The LEGO Movie, They Came Together, Whiplash

• DDC 220-229: Blessed is Samuel L. Jackson

  A Teach Me How To Dewey production This Is How We Dewey: Regardless of how accurate it is in a given situation, deploying “Old Testament” as an intensifying adjective/adverb–i.e. “It’s about to get Old Testament up in here”–is one of my favorite things. To me in implies a righteous fury or a majestic/violent power that…

  Jun 25, 2014

  # books, Christianity, Darren Aronofsky, Dewey Decimal Classification, libraries, Noah, Pulp Fiction, religion, Samuel L. Jackson, Teach Me How To Dewey, The Bible

• Dorothy Day and the Noah Way

  A passage early on in Paul Elie’s The Life You Save May Be Your Own popped out when I first read it and stuck with me as I watched Darren Aronofsky’s remarkable Noah. Elie’s book chronicles the intersecting lives and spiritual journeys of four influential Catholic writers: Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Walker Percy, and Flannery…

  Mar 30, 2014

  # books, Darren Aronofsky, Dorothy Day, film, Flannery O’Connor, God, movies, Noah, Paul Elie, review, synchronicity, Thomas Merton, Walker Percy