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• Most Spiritually Literate Films of 2012
Latest Film Releases
IMAGINATION
The English Teacher - A fetching dramady starring Julianne Moore as an enthusiastic and vulnerable middle-aged English teacher who turns a corner in her life and realizes she will never be the same again.
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The English Teacher - A fetching dramady starring Julianne Moore as an enthusiastic and vulnerable middle-aged English teacher who turns a corner in her life and realizes she will never be the same again.
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LOVE
Before Midnight - A couple on the cusp of a mid-life crisis talk their way through a storm of disappointments, resentments, and flash points in their 18-year relationship.
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Before Midnight - A couple on the cusp of a mid-life crisis talk their way through a storm of disappointments, resentments, and flash points in their 18-year relationship.
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LOVE
Star Trek Into Darkness - An immensely engaging sci-fi thriller about friendship, leadership, and loss in a tense and war-mongering intergalactic world.
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Star Trek Into Darkness - An immensely engaging sci-fi thriller about friendship, leadership, and loss in a tense and war-mongering intergalactic world.
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LOVE
33 Postcards - Touching story about how the spiritual practice of enthusiasm works wonders in the life of a man in prison.
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33 Postcards - Touching story about how the spiritual practice of enthusiasm works wonders in the life of a man in prison.
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PEACE
State 194 - A bold and illuminating documentary about the two-year campaign by a visionary and courageous Palestinian prime minister to make his country the 194th member state of the United Nations.
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State 194 - A bold and illuminating documentary about the two-year campaign by a visionary and courageous Palestinian prime minister to make his country the 194th member state of the United Nations.
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TRANSFORMATION
Elemental - Portraits of three environmental activists and the challenges they face in trying to change people's mindsets and spur them on to help stem the tide of ecological disaster.
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Elemental - Portraits of three environmental activists and the challenges they face in trying to change people's mindsets and spur them on to help stem the tide of ecological disaster.
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TRANSFORMATION
Frances Ha - The comic misadventures of a quirky young woman who falls down seven times but gets up eight.
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Frances Ha - The comic misadventures of a quirky young woman who falls down seven times but gets up eight.
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YEARNING
Augustine - A psychological thriller that explores fresh territory in its depiction of sexual politics.
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Augustine - A psychological thriller that explores fresh territory in its depiction of sexual politics.
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Recent Releases
DEVOTION
One Track Heart - An emotionally wrought documentary about the spiritual journey and immense love story of chant master Krishna Das.
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One Track Heart - An emotionally wrought documentary about the spiritual journey and immense love story of chant master Krishna Das.
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LOVE
Love is All You Need - An enchanting romantic comedy set on the Italian Riviera where two middle-agers find their lives in turnaround.
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Love is All You Need - An enchanting romantic comedy set on the Italian Riviera where two middle-agers find their lives in turnaround.
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LOVE
What Maisie Knew - A mesmerizing screen adaptation of a Henry James novel about parenting and the importance of a tender and nurturing love.
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What Maisie Knew - A mesmerizing screen adaptation of a Henry James novel about parenting and the importance of a tender and nurturing love.
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LOVE
You Will Be My Son - A powerful father-son psychodrama with plenty of emotional fireworks in its depiction of the toxic power of high expectations.
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You Will Be My Son - A powerful father-son psychodrama with plenty of emotional fireworks in its depiction of the toxic power of high expectations.
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PEACE
Free the Mind - An enlightening documentary about using mindfulness, breathing techniques, and yoga to reprogram the brain and ease the mind.
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Free the Mind - An enlightening documentary about using mindfulness, breathing techniques, and yoga to reprogram the brain and ease the mind.
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QUESTING
Something in the Air - A top-notch semi-biographical drama about French writer and director Olivier Assayas's quest for the best route to self-expression in 1971.
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Something in the Air - A top-notch semi-biographical drama about French writer and director Olivier Assayas's quest for the best route to self-expression in 1971.
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QUESTING
Stories We Tell - A groundbreaking documentary written and directed by Sarah Polley about family secrets, memory, forgiveness, and reconciliation.
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Stories We Tell - A groundbreaking documentary written and directed by Sarah Polley about family secrets, memory, forgiveness, and reconciliation.
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SHADOW
Iron Man 3 - Robert Downey Jr. carries this superhero saga with his wit and clever improvised quips.
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Iron Man 3 - Robert Downey Jr. carries this superhero saga with his wit and clever improvised quips.
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Films Now Showing:Spiritual perspectives on films now in theaters.
How do you find spirituality in today's films? How can you make watching a film into a spiritual experience? Frederic and Mary Ann share their trade secrets.
Spirituality and Film
Befriending Films
The Most Spiritually Literate Films of:
10 Best Football Movies: A collection of our picks for the best football movies.
30 Movies about Dystopias: Movies that reflect the fears and excesses of contemporary societies.
Films for Black History Month: The spiritual perspectives of the 50 best films about African-Americans.
10 Spiritual Takes on Downton Abbey: How this television miniseries reveals us to ourselves.
Apes and Other Animals: See a collection of curated content for reframing our perceptions, attitudes, and actions to our fellow inhabitants of planet Earth.
Global Spirit: See our reviews and study suggestions for this 10-part series from LinkTV; many of the programs can be viewed online. Also, see the archive of live chats with guests on the series.
Iranian Films Seen from a Spiritual Perspective: Links to our reviews of 29 films from or about Iran giving many windows into everyday life and the people's cares and concerns.
Movies about Miracles: See quotes about miracles and our selection of 16 movies about miraculous events in the lives of ordinary people
Playing with God: Movies reveal how mere humans respond when God comes calling.
Meditating on The Passion of the Christ: links to our review, a meditation based on the stations of the cross and scenes from the movie, and reviews of 30 books about Jesus.
Joan of Arcadia: our review of the late and very missed series, the most spiritually literate shows ever on TV, plus executive producer Barbara Hall's Ten Commandments of Joan of Arcadia
The Decalogue: Polish film director Krzysztof Kieslowski's masterpiece: ten one-hour films about the Ten Commandments is now on video/DVD.
Lixin Fan:
Director of Last Train Home
Amir Bar-Lev:
Director of The Tillman Story
Philip Groning:
Director of Into Great Silence
Tim McCanlies:
Director of Secondhand Lions
Bahman Ghobadi:
Director of the Iranian film Turtles Can Fly
• What It Takes to Be a Survivor a gallery of lessons from Hushpuppy in Beasts of the Southern Wild.
• Samsara a gallery of images from the highly acclaimed documentary.
• Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer a gallery of 12 images from the movie.
• Films about Sisters a gallery of pictures with links to our reviews.
• Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion: images from the documentary about the plight of the Tibetan people
• Into Great Silence: the documentary about the Cathusian monks of Grand Chartreuse
• Films about Racism in America and the courageous people who have stood against it.
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