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FROM THE EDITORS Gary Kelly’s cover art “Spring Rites” invites the longview—a straight Midwestern road narrows into the horizon, a purply-blue sky fills most of the canvas, and a name on a mailbox stands in for a person. How accustomed to this socially distanced and de-peopled setting we’ve become, now in our third spring of living with a novel virus.
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Could Andrei Rublev be the best film on the Vatican film list? Andrei Tarkovsky is widely regarded as one of the greatest spiritual filmmakers of all time, and his 1966 masterpiece Andrei Rublev lives up to that reputation. In this deeply moving and at times confounding work of art, we enter into the spiritual and artistic trials of Russia’s greatest icon painter, the monk Andrei Rublev, who works in the midst of the immense suffering of the Russian people in the 15th century. It is both a deeply contemplative interior work and an historical epic. Catholic filmmaker Nathan Douglas joins t...