S.O.S. got a new meaning via Youri and Gagarin who lived in a symbiotic relationship. Let me break down this sentence: Cité Gagarine was a real building, a 370-apartment housing project in outer Paris...
The writers of Horizon were not afraid to demonstrate their ambivalent feelings towards the church. One one hand, the first representation of religion in the film, is a priest, who is capable to provide...
As you can confirm I registered the domain for this website 16 years ago today. Happy birthday sweet child of mine!
You don’t argue with people’s feelings and experiences, right? But you can always disagree with their opinions and attempt to widen their horizons and understandings. I read (and recommend reading) two interviews with Karen...
One of the key themes of The Two Popes is change vs compromise. An interesting, technical, symbol of this debate is the stepcounter, that keeps telling Pope Benedict XVI to keep going. The digital machine not just...
Here is the list of the 27 books that I posted on this site, FilmandReligion.com in August and September 2019. The image above contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to...
Here is the list of the 32 article that I posted on this site, FilmandReligion.com in September 2019. African Traditional Religion and Representation: An Examination of Selected Yoruba Movies by Olatunde Oyewole Ogunbiyi (2016-05)...
Rites and rituals play a crucial role in Martin Scorsese‘s The Irishman. Significant screentime was devoted to formal religious sacraments such as baptisms, weddings, last rites and funerals. These were the occasions where the...
In theory under the Hungarian variety of communist regimes everything was relegated to serve the purpose of the lofty idea(l)s of the state. Thus the leaders of the system had to make a choice...
Do you know what religions most Croatians are? Mostly Catholics. According to the latest census at least 85% of them. Hence I got a little confused watching “Last Christmas” written by Emma Thompson, staring...