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Favorite films

  • The Seventh Seal
  • Drowning by Numbers
  • Dancer in the Dark
  • Twin Peaks: The Return

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  • Spring Breakers

    ★★★½

  • The Gift

    ★★★

  • Touch of Evil

    ★★★★½

  • He Who Gets Slapped

    ★★★½

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  • Grand Canyon: Rivers of Time

    Grand Canyon: Rivers of Time

    ★★★½

    Several times I’ve happened upon a TV or movie theater while out doing an extended hike. There’s something nice about spending that time in nature, then wandering into town to briefly reconnect with human culture. While hiking the Arizona Trail, I had a motel stay in Strawberry where I indulged in a few hours of a Family Guy marathon. Continuing north toward Utah, I eventually reached Tusayan, the final stop before entering Grand Canyon National Park. There, I discovered that…

  • Pi

    Pi

    ★★★

    1, 1, 2, 3, 5,… makes a cameo in this film. Kinda gimmicky. The religious tie-in was absurd. Such ticks and neuroses are more palatably showcased elsewhere, but I do have a soft spot for that 90s electronic music.

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  • Thief

    Thief

    ★★★★★

    Through a strange set of circumstances, this movie in fact saved my mother’s life.

  • Marching to Zion

    Marching to Zion

    ★★★★★

    I am perhaps not the only one among the Methodists who seeks edification at Independent Fundamentalist Baptist documentaries. Not because powerful personalities impress me, but because it is amongst these ranks that one generally finds the courage to assert the strongest religious claims, to call a sin a sin, to speak of the living, present God instead of human religious claims. I can seldom think of a time when I have not been “offended” in the course of such documentaries.…