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The 1961 film Leon Morin, Priest is a thought-provoking study of pastoral prudence.

“These mandates are advantageous for those who intend to repent. For, if they do not walk in them, their repentance is worthless.”

Exploring the work of Terrence Malick, our greatest living Christian filmmaker, we arrive at The Thin Red Line (featuring Jim Caviezel in his breakthrough role)

There are many ways to make a movie. Catholic filmmakers should not limit themselves to a cookie-cutter Hollywood approach, but should study outside the box.

“If anyone strives to be delivered from his troubles out of love of God, he will strive patiently, gently, humbly and calmly, looking for deliverance rather to God’s goodness and providence than to his own industry or efforts; but if self-love is the prevailing object, he will grow hot and eager in seeking relief, as though all depended more upon himself than upon God.”

Tokyo Story is a quiet, gentle yet tragic family drama about the distance that can grow between elderly parents and their adult children. If it is critical of those who fail to honor and love their elderly parents, it also shows that this is often a result of the parents having failed their children when they were younger. Tokyo Story should provoke an examination of conscience in viewers of every generation.

Word on Fire has published Popcorn with the Pope: A Guide to the Vatican Film List with essays on all 45 films by David Paul Baird, Fr. Michael Ward, and Andrew Petiprin.

Terrence Malick is both the most important Christian filmmaker working today and the most important filmmaker working today, period.

Thomas and James review Martin Scorseses new film, now in theaters: Killers of the Flower Moon.