Timothy R.

Timothy R.

Favorite films

  • A Hidden Life
  • The Shawshank Redemption
  • About Time
  • The Wind Rises

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  • Hundreds of Beavers

    ★★★★½

  • Into Great Silence

    ★★★★★

  • Calvary

    ★★★

  • Paddington

    ★★★

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  • Hundreds of Beavers

    Hundreds of Beavers

    ★★★★½

    Opening with St. Augustine is a wild choice, and it gets wilder from there. Immensely funny, internally consistent, and excellent pace. I’m not a laugh-out-loud movie watcher, but to be in a raucous room of 1 am hysteria was so fun. Worth the hour and a half nap to substitute for sleep.

  • Into Great Silence

    Into Great Silence

    ★★★★★

    “Anyone who does not give up everything cannot be my disciple.”

    The perfect life is not a hollow command; those who are pure in heart—whose whole being long for nothing other than God—shall see him, we are promised.

    This movie does not give a checklist of answers or steps. It solely explicates that such love exists, and exists in the humanity of chores, reading, sledding, and Great Silence.

    A perfect film. A meditation. An invitation for your very heart to enter the monastery, to enter Into Great Silence.

    “Lord Jesus, have mercy on us.”

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  • About Time

    About Time

    ★★★★★

    With this time we are given, may we truly love.

    A perfect movie, which ceaselessly reveals more and more the human condition and the wonder of life. Worthy of all contemplative attention. I have cried, and will cry again, because of this movie.

  • Only Yesterday

    Only Yesterday

    ★★★★

    A beautiful witness to recollecting past hurts without bitterness, and remembering past actions with forgiveness. Love keeps no record of wrong. Such profound love takes a lifetime to cultivate, yet it ought to be our aspiration.

    The art was so sweet—as always—and the slow shots of making dye and cultivating a field made me long for a pastoral life. Lovely to sit in for all the minutes we can get.

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