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Subject: Thinking Faith: Science
and Theology: An Introduction and films from the London Film Festival
The
latest from Thinking Faith...
Science and Theology: An Introduction
In
a three-part series for Thinking Faith,
Michael Fuller, an Anglican priest with a background in organic chemistry, will
challenge popular notions about the relationship between science and theology.
In this first article, he looks at how a more traditional understanding of the
practice of science has been called into question in recent years. What
developments have occurred in the philosophy of science, and what might this
mean for its engagement with theology? Read
>>
http://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/20101029_1.htm
Film
Review: Africa United
Reviewed by Ged Clapson
Africa United is a film rich in
faith. On more than one occasion, Beatrice, played by Sanyu Joanita Kintu,
prays openly for her friends with a simple faith that combines remorse for past
failings and hope for the future. It is a beautifully crafted film, with great
scenery and a thoroughly believable cast. And what it does – to great
effect – is provide us with a sketch of Africa. Read
more >>
http://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/FILM_20101029_8.htm
Film
Review: The Kids Are All Right
Reviewed by Gareth Vile
In the opening credits, the film sets up the conflicts that generate the
action, yet never thinks to go beyond the superficial. The unimaginative
handling of the drama is matched by a predictable form. Ironically, the
representation of males in the film is so two-dimensional, it becomes
offensive. Read
more >>
http://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/FILM_20101029_7.htm
FROM THE 2010 LONDON FILM FESTIVAL:
Film
Review: Everything Must Go
Reviewed by Michael Bateson-Hill
Nicholas Halsey, played by Will Ferrell, is in the depths of a ‘bad
day’. Having recently been fired from his long-term job in marketing,
suffering at the hands of his own addiction, he returns home to find his locks
changed, his wife gone and his possessions scattered all over his own front
lawn. Read
more >>
http://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/FILM_20101029_6.htm
Film
Review: Microphone
Reviewed by Nathan Koblintz
Part documentary, part fiction, with many of the characters played by
themselves. Khaled is Khaled Abol Naga, a well-known TV and film personality in
Egypt
and likely to become better known to the rest of the world through film
festivals like this one. Unlike The
Taqwacores, with its climaxes and completions, Microphone feels more wistful. Read
more >>
http://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/FILM_20101029_5.htm
Film
Review: Life, above all
Reviewed by Ricardo da Silva SJ
Life, above all opens with a
beautiful song sung in Pedi; this is one of the eleven official languages of South Africa.
The singers’ melodic voices chant ‘open the gates’; this
allows for a virtual invitation, coercing the audience to enter the enticing
world of the small town of Elandsdoorn, located just outside
Johannesburg. Read
more >>
http://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/FILM_20101029_4.htm
Film
Review: Winter Vacation
Reviewed by Nathan Koblintz
Winter Vacation is made up of a
series of set pieces that sit like still photographs until one of the humans
moves or says something. At a street corner four teenage boys gradually
congregate; there are no cars, and in the background is the sound of distant
gunfire. Read
more >>
http://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/FILM_20101029_3.htm
Film
Review: Neds
Reviewed by Jane Leek
Set in 1970s Glasgow
council estates, an impassive, baby faced, intelligent boy descends from class
swot to rampaging gangland thug in just a few years. The cast had a fight club
for two weeks leading up to filming so that Mullan could ensure they could
fight without hurting each other. Read
more >>
http://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/FILM_20101029_2.htm
Film
Review: Mandelson: The Real PM?
Reviewed by Nathan Koblintz
The problem is that Rothschild is no match for Mandelson in her interviewing
– and this is meant as no slight on her. Trying to provoke him into a
revelation about his two sackings from Government, she comments that
Blair’s actions ‘seemed very harsh.’ ‘And?’
replies PM. Read
more >>
http://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/FILM_20101029_1.htm
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