Webinar: Formational Films Round-Up

Here are some resources men­tioned in the For­ma­tion­al Films: Movies That Mat­ter web­cast con­ver­sa­tion between Jef­frey Over­street, Cather­ine Bar­sot­ti, Chris Hall, and Car­olyn Arends.

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Count­down Song

• Gabriel’s Oboe by Ennio Mor­ri­cone from The Mis­sion Sound­track

Resources Rec­om­mend­ed by Jef­frey Overstreet

• Books by Jef­frey Overstreet

  • Through a Screen Dark­ly: Look­ing Clos­er at Beau­ty, Truth and Evil in the Movies

  • Aurali­a’s Col­ors: A Nov­el (The Auralia Thread Book 1)

  • Cyn­dere’s Mid­night: A Nov­el (The Auralia Thread Book 2)

  • Raven’s Lad­der: A Nov­el (The Auralia Thread Book 3)

  • The Ale Boy’s Feast: A Nov­el (The Auralia Thread Book 4)

• Rec­om­mend­ed Films

  • Babet­te’s Feast (Axel, 1987)

  • Tim­buk­tu (Sis­sako, 2014)

  • Wings of Desire (Wen­ders, 1987)

  • The Son (Le Fils) (Luc Dar­d­enne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne,2002)

  • The Mup­pet Movie (Frawley,1979)

  • The Secret of Kells (Moore, 2010)

• Resources and addi­tion­al rec­om­mend­ed films:

  • Three Col­ors: Blue (Kieślows­ki, 1994)

  • The New World (Mal­ick, 2005)

  • The Tree of Life (Mal­ick, 2011)

  • My Neigh­bor Totoro (Miyaza­ki, 1988)

  • Taxi Dri­ver (Scors­ese, 1976)

  • “Have We Lost Our Minds” Arti­cle in Chris­tian­i­ty Today

  • List of scrip­tures men­tioned in Webinar

  • Flan­nery O’ Con­nor Quote:

    • The fact is that if the writer’s atten­tion is on pro­duc­ing a work of art, a work that is good in itself, he is going to take great pains to con­trol every excess, every­thing that does not con­tribute to this cen­tral mean­ing and design. He can­not indulge in sen­ti­men­tal­i­ty, in pro­pa­gan­diz­ing, or in pornog­ra­phy and cre­ate a work of art, for all these things are excess­es. They call atten­tion to them­selves and dis­tract from the work as a whole.

• Jeffrey’s Web­site

• Jef­frey on Social Media: Twit­ter, and Face­book

Resources rec­om­mend­ed by Cather­ine Barsotti

• Books by Cather­ine Barsotti

  • Find­ing God in the Movies: 33 Films of Reel Faith

  • God in the Movies: A Guide For Explor­ing Four Decades Of Film

• Rec­om­mend­ed Films

  • Lars and the Real Girl (Gille­spie, 2007)

  • Of Gods and Men (Beav­ois, 2010)

  • Cal­vary (McDon­agh, 2014)

  • A Hid­den Life (Mal­ick, 2019)

  • House­hold Saints (1993, Savoca)

• Resources and addi­tion­al rec­om­mend­ed films:

  • Ten­der Mer­cies (Beresford,1983)

  • The Apos­tle (Duvall,1987)

  • Get Low (Schnei­der, 2010)

  • WALL·E (Stan­ton, 2008)

  • Up (Doc­tor, 2009)

  • Soul (Doc­tor, 2020)

  • Roma (Cuarón, 2018)

  • Babel (Iñár­ritu, 2006)

  • Pan’s Labyrinth (del Toro, 2006)

  • Brehm Film at Fuller Seminary

  • Fuller Stu­dio Podcast

  • John­ston: Refram­ing The­ol­o­gy and Film: New Focus for an Emerg­ing Discipline

  • John­ston: Reel Spir­i­tu­al­i­ty (Engag­ing Cul­ture): The­ol­o­gy and Film in Dialogue

  • John­ston: Use­less Beau­ty: Eccle­si­astes through the Lens of Con­tem­po­rary Film

  • John­ston: God’s Wider Pres­ence: Recon­sid­er­ing Gen­er­al Revelation

  • John­ston: Deep Focus: Film and The­ol­o­gy in Dia­logue (Engag­ing Culture)

• Cather­ine on Social Media: Twit­ter, and Face­book

Resources rec­om­mend­ed by Chris Hall

• Books by Chris Hall

  • Read­ing Scrip­ture with the Church Fathers

  • Learn­ing The­ol­o­gy with the Church Fathers

  • Wor­ship­ing with the Church Fathers

  • Liv­ing Wise­ly with the Church Fathers 

• Rec­om­mend­ed Films

  • Far­go (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen,1996)

  • Gran Tori­no (East­wood, 2008) 

  • Sophie Scholl – The Final Days

    • Jeffrey’s CT Review

  • Schindler’s List (Spiel­berg, 1993) 

  • A Sim­ple Plan (Rai­mi, 1998)

  • Flan­nery O’ Con­nor Quote:
    

    • The basis of art is truth, both in mat­ter and in mode.

    
    

Resources rec­om­mend­ed by Car­olyn Arends

• Arti­cle: See No Evil?: Three Ques­tions to Ask of the Art We Con­sume and Create

• Music by Car­olyn Arends

• Books by Car­olyn Arends

  • The Uni­verse in 57 Words: Sev­en Days Inside the Lord’s Prayer

  • The Reser­voir

  • The­ol­o­gy in Aisle Sev­en: The Uncom­mon Grace of Every­day Spirituality

  • Wrestling with Angels: Adven­tures in Faith and Doubt

• Carolyn’s Web­site

• Car­olyn on Social Media: Twit­ter, Insta­gram, and Face­book

Oth­er Resources Men­tioned in the Webi­nar and Chat:

The resources men­tioned below have not been reviewed or endorsed by Renovaré. 

• Thomas McKen­zie YouTube chan­nel

• Web­sites for find­ing films to watch: 

  • Just Watch

  • Kanopy

• Movies:

  • God’s Not Dead (Cronk, 2014)

  • The Iron Giant (Bird, 1999) 

  • Char­i­ots of Fire (Hudson,1981)

  • The Hid­ing Place (Col­lier, 1975)

  • The Cho­sen (TV Series, 2019) 

  • Unortho­dox (Wexler and Oertelt, 2013)

  • The Fish­er King (Gilliam,1991)

  • The Emper­or’s Club (Hoffman,2002)

• Books:

  • Qureshi: Seek­ing Allah, Find­ing Jesus: A Devout Mus­lim Encoun­ters Christianity

  • Gire: Reflec­tions on the Movies

• Quotes and Articles

  • On see­ing the world through a filmmaker’s eyes:“ My own eyes are not enough for me, I will see through those of oth­ers. Real­i­ty, even seen through the eyes of many, is not enough. I will see what oth­ers have invent­ed. Even the eyes of all human­i­ty are not enough. I regret that the brutes can not write books. Very glad­ly would I learn what face things present to a mouse or a bee; more glad­ly still would I per­ceive the olfac­to­ry world charged with all the infor­ma­tion and emo­tion it car­ries for a dog. Lit­er­ary expe­ri­ence heals the wound, with­out under­min­ing the priv­i­lege, of indi­vid­u­al­i­ty… in read­ing great lit­er­a­ture I become a thou­sand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myr­i­ad of eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in wor­ship, in love, in moral action, and in know­ing, I tran­scend myself; and am nev­er more myself than when I do.” ― C.S. Lewis, An Exper­i­ment in Criticism

• Food & Wine Mag­a­zine: 7 Kitchen and Life Lessons that the Swedish Chef Taught Us

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