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A

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

• Robot Heavens and Robot Dreams: Ultimate Reality in A.I. and Other Recent Films (7,2)
• Film Review: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (6,1)

About Schmidt

• Native American Religion and Film: Interviews with Chris Eyre and Sherman Alexie (7,1)
• Film Review: About Schmidt (7, 1)

Abraham's Children: Interviews with Jews, Christians, and Muslims in a Midwest College Town

• Using 'Homemade' Documentary Video in Religious Studies (1,2)

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

The Acts of the Apostles (Atti degli apostoli)

• Cinema and Theology: The Case of Heaven Over Marshes (6,2)

Adam's æbler (Adam's Apple)

• Report from Sundance 2006: Religion in Independent Film (10,1)

Adaptation

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the Question of Transcendence> (9,1)
• Robot Heavens and Robot Dreams: Ultimate Reality in A.I.and Other Recent Films (7,2)

The Addams Family

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Admirational

• Report from Sundance2003: Religion in Independent Film (7, 1)

After Life

• Report from Sundance 1999: Religion in Independent Film (3,1)

Agnes of God

• Editorial (2,1)
• Editorial (1,2)

Air Force One

• From Navy Seals to The Siege: Getting to Know the Muslim Terrorist, Hollywood Style (9,2)
• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Akira Kurowawa's Dreams (Yume)

• Robot Heavens and Robot Dreams: Ultimate Reality in A.I. and Other Recent Films (7, 2)

Al di là del bene e del male (Beyond Good and Evil)

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the Question of Transcendence (9,1)

Aladdin

• From Navy Seals to The Siege: Getting to Know the Muslim Terrorist, Hollywood Style (9,2)
• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Alias Nick Beal

• “Angels Carrying Savage Weapons”: Uses of the Bible in Contemporary Horror Films (7,2)

Alien

• Screening the Sacred: Religion, Myth, and Ideology in Popular American Film (Book Review)
• To Commend or to Critique? The Question of Religion and Film Studies (1,2)

Aliens

• Screening the Sacred: Religion, Myth, and Ideology in Popular American Film (Book Review)
• To Commend or To Critique? The Question of Religion and Film Studies (1,2)

All That Jazz

• Images of God in the Movies (1,1)

Always

• Images of God in the Movies (1,1)

Amadeus

• The Story Behind Yakoana: an interview with Anh Crutcher (3,1)
• Mozart & Salieri, Cain & Abel: A Cinematic Transformation of Genesis 4 (1,1)

American Beauty

• Review: Constantine (9,1)
• "Beautiful Necessities": American Beauty and the Idea of Freedom (6,2)

American Gigolo

• Book Review: Filmgoer's Guide to God (9, 2)
• The Ties That Bind and Bless the Soul': Grace and Noir in Schrader's Light Sleeper (2,2)

American History X

• Film Review: Keeping the Faith (4,2)

Amistad

• Scripture on the Silver Screen (3,1)

Andrei Rublev

• Andrei Rublev: Religious Epiphany in Art (3,2)

Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros (The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros)

• Report from Sundance 2006: Religion in Independent Film (10,1)

Angel Heart

• The Devil We Already Know: Medieval Representations of a Powerless Satan in Modern American Cinema (8,2)

An Angel at my Table

• Film Review: Holy Smoke [Makarushka] (4,2)

Angelo, My Love

• Biography: Robert Duvall (2,1)

Angels in the Outfield

• Teaching Religion and Film (2,3)

Angels with Dirty Faces

• Cinema and Theology: The Case of Heaven Over Marshes (6,2)

Another 48 Hours

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Antwone Fisher

• Film Review: Antowne Fisher (7, 1)

Antz

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Anything Else

• Film Review: Anything Else (8, 1)

Aparajito

• Imag(in)ing Otherness: Filmic Visions of Living Together (Book Review)

Apocalypse Now

• Archetypes on Screen: Odysseus, St. Paul, Christ and the American Cinematic Hero and Anti-Hero (9,1)
• Biography: Robert Duvall (2,1)
• Screening the Sacred: Religion, Myth, and Ideology in Popular American Film (Book Review)
• Visions of the End. Secular Apocalypse in Recent Hollywood Film (2,1)

Apollo 13

• Anti-Feminism in Recent Apocalyptic Film (4,1)
• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

The Apostle

• Black Song, White Song: Salvation Through The Radio in The Apostle and Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? (6,2)
• The Apostle: A Psychiatric Appraisal (3,2)
• Scripture on the Silver Screen (3,1)
• Report from Sundance 1999: Religion in Independent Film (3,1)
• Editorial (2,3)
• The Apostle: An Interview with Robert Duvall (2,1)

Armageddon

• A Community of Characters – the Narrative Self in the Films of Wes Anderson (9,2)
• Bruce Willis as the Messiah: Human Effort, Salvation and Apocalypticism in Twelve Monkeys<> (4,1)
• Anti-Feminism in Recent Apocalyptic Film (4,1)
• Apocalyptic Visions (4,1)
• Armageddon at the Millenial Dawn (4,1)
• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)
• Scripture on the Silver Screen (3,1)

Armour of the God II (Operation Condor)

• From Navy Seals to The Siege: Getting to Know the Muslim Terrorist, Hollywood Style (9,2)

Army of Shadows (L'Armée des ombres)

• Filmgoer's Guide to God (9, 2)

As Good as It Gets

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)

• Film Review: Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) (6,2)

Attack of the Clones (Star Wars: Episode II)

• Discussion Topic 6: God and "the Force" - Star Wars
• Any Gods Out There? Perceptions of Religion from Star Wars and Star Trek (7, 2)

Atonement

• Film Review: Atonement (11, 2)

Atti degli apostoli (The Acts of the Apostles)

• Cinema and Theology: The Case of Heaven Over Marshes (6,2)

Au hazard Balthazar (Balthazar)

• Filmgoer's Guide to God (9, 2)

Aurat (Woman)

• Book Review: Mother India

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B

Babette's Feast

• Book Review: Finding Meaning at the Movies
• Scripture on the Silver Screen (3,1)
• Religion and Film: Capturing the Imagination (2,3)
• Jesus in Film: Hollywood Perspectives on the Jewishness of Jesus (2,2)
• Imag(in)ing Otherness: Filmic Visions of Living Together (Book Review)
• Kierkegaard at Babette's Feast: The Return to the Finite (1,2)
• Babette's Feast: A Religious Film (1,2)
• Images of God in the Movies (1,1)

Baby Boom

• To Commend or to Critique?  The Question of Religion and Film Studies (1,2)

Back to the Future, Part III

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Bad Lieutenant

• ‘It all happens here:’ Locating Salvation in Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant (7,1)

Badge 373

• Biography: Robert Duvall (2,1)

Bajo California. El Limite del Tiempo

• Report from Sundance 1999: Religion in Independent Film (3,1)

Balthazar (Au hazard Balthazar)

• Filmgoer's Guide to God (9, 2)

Bandits

• Film Review: Bandits(6,1)

Barry Lyndon

• The Dharma Blues (6,1)

Basic Instinct

• Revisiting Violence in The Godfather: The Ambiguous Space of the Victimage Model (9,2)
• Symbolic Power and Religion Impotence in Paul Verhoeven’s Spetters (7,2)
• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Batman and Robin

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Batman Forever

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Batman Returns

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

The Battle for the Minds

• Editorial (2,1)

Be Like Others

• Report from Sundance 2008: Religion in Independent Film (21, 1)

Beauty and the Beast

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Bedazzled

• The Devil We Already Know: Medieval Representations of a Powerless Satan in Modern American Cinema (8,2)

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

• Film Review: Before the Devil Knows You'e Dead (12, 1)

Behold the Man (Golgotha )

• Cinema and Theology: The Case of Heaven Over Marshes (6,2)

Being John Malkovich

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the Question of Transcendence (9,1)
• Robot Heavens and Robot Dreams: Ultimate Reality in A.I. and Other Recent Films (7,2)

Being There

• Scripture on the Silver Screen (3,1)

The Believer

• Film Review: The Believer (7, 2)

Belizaire the Cajun

• Biography: Robert Duvall (2,1)

The Bells of St. Mary’s

• Any Gods Out There? Perceptions of Religion from Star Wars and Star Trek (7,2)
• From Peepshow to Prayer: Toward a Spirituality of the Movies (6,2)
• Cinema and Theology: The Case of Heaven Over Marshes (6,2)

Bend It Like Beckham

• Film Review: Bend It Like Beckham (7, 1)

Ben-Hur

• Any Gods Out There? Perceptions of Religion from Star Wars and Star Trek (7, 2)
• From Peepshow to Prayer: Toward a Spirituality of the Movies (6,2)
• The Messianic Figure in Film: Christology Beyond the Biblical Epic (2,2)

The Betsy

• Biography: Robert Duvall (2,1)

Between

• Report from Sundance 2005: Religion in Independent Film (9,1)

Beyond Good and Evil (Al di là del bene e del male)

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the Question of Transcendence (9,1)

Bhagwat Geeta (Bhagvad Gita: Song of the Lord)

• The Dharma Blues (6,1)

Bharat Mata (Mother India)

• Book Review: Mother India

Big Fish

• Film Review: Big Fish (8, 1)

Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey

• Robot Heavens and Robot Dreams: Ultimate Reality in A.I. and Other Recent Films (7,2)

Billy Elliot

• Still Crazy: An Unsung Homage to the New Testament (8,2)

Bird on a Wire

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

The Birdcage

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

The Birds

• The Rapture: A Challenging Vision of Horror (1,1)

The Birth of a Nation

• The Birth of a Nation as American Myth (8,2)
• To Commend or To Critique? The Question of Religion and Film Studies (1,2)

The Birth of a Race

• The Birth of a Nation as American Myth (8,2)

Black Narcissus

• From Peepshow to Prayer: Toward a Spirituality of the Movies (6,2)

Blade Runner

• Book Review: Finding Meaning at the Movies
• Knowledge and Mortality in Blade Runner and Genesis 2-3 (9,2)
• Robot Heavens and Robot Dreams: Ultimate Reality in A.I. and Other Recent Films (7,2)
• Seeing Beyond the End of the World in Strange Days and Until the End of the World (7,1)
• Buddhism, Christianity, and The Matrix: The Dialectic of Myth-Making in Contemporary Cinema (4,2)
• Apocalyptic Visions (4,1)
• Scripture on the Silver Screen (3,1)
• Apocalyptic Visions - Beyond Corporeality (2,3)
• Editorial (2,3)
• Religion and Film: Capturing the Imagination (2,3)

Blazing Saddles

• Anti-Feminism in Recent Apocalyptic Film (4,1)

• Memory and Responsibility: An Interview with Margarethe von Trotta on Rosenstrasse (12, 1)

Blessed Art Thou

• Report from Sundance 2000: Religion in Independent Film (4,1)

Blind Chance

• Film Review: Lovers of the Arctic Circle (3,2)

Blood Simple

• Screening the Sacred: Religion, Myth, and Ideology in Popular American Film (Book Review)

The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros)

• Report from Sundance 2006: Religion in Independent Film (10,1)

Blue

• Scripture on the Silver Screen (3,1)

Blue Velvet

• The Story Behind Yakoana: an interview with Anh Crutcher (3,1)
• Screening the Sacred: Religion, Myth, and Ideology in Popular American Film (Book Review)
• Religion and Popular Movies (2,3)

The Body

• “ Angels Carrying Savage Weapons”: Uses of the Bible in Contemporary Horror Films (7,2)

Bodyguard

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

The Bodyguard 2

Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring)

• Film Review: Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring) (9,2)

Boogie Nights

• Magnolia and the Signs of the Times: A Theological Reflection (4,2)

Boomerang

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Bottle Rocket

• A Community of Characters – the Narrative Self in the Films of Wes Anderson (9,2)

The Bourne Ultimatum

• Film Review: The Bourne Ultimatum (11, 2)

The Bourne Supremacy

• Film Review: The Bourne Ultimatum (11, 2)

Bowfinger

• Film Review: Bowfinger (4,1)

Boys Town

• Cinema and Theology: The Case of Heaven Over Marshes (6,2)

Bram Stoker's Dracula

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Brassed Off

• Fantasy Verses Redemption: Religious Possibility in Little Voice (4,2)

Braveheart

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Brazil

• Seeing Beyond the End of the World in Strange Days and Until the End of the World (7,1)
• Visions of the End. Secular Apocalypse in Recent Hollywood Film (2,1)

Breaking the Waves

• Film Review: Dogville (9,1)
• Blessed Broken Bodies: Exploring Redemption in Central Station and Breaking the Waves (8,1)
• Bess The Christ Figure?: Theological Interpretations of Breaking the Waves (5,1)
• Seeing and Being: Distinctively Filmic and Religious Elements in Film (3,2)
• Report from Sundance 1999: Religion in Independent Film (3,1)
• Imag(in)ing Otherness: Filmic Visions of Living Together (Book Review)
• The End of Desire: Theologies of Eros in the Song of Songs and Breaking the Waves (2,1)
• Transgressing Goodness in Breaking the Waves (2,1)

Breakout

• Biography: Robert Duvall (2,1)

The Bridges of Madison County

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Bridget Jones' Diary

• Still Crazy: An Unsung Homage to the New Testament (8,2)

A Brief History of Time

• Report from Sundance 1999: Religion in Independent Film (3,1)

Bronco Billy

• Book Review: Reading the Gospels in the Dark: Portrayals of Jesus in Film
• To Commend or To Critique? The Question of Religion and Film Studies (1,2)

The Brother From Another Planet

• Anti-Feminism in Recent Apocalyptic Film (4,1)

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

• Teaching Religion and Film (2,3)

Bruce Almighty

• Film Review: Bruce Almighty (7, 2)

A Bug’s Life

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

The Business of Fancy Dancing

• Native American Religion and Film: Interviews with Chris Eyre and Sherman Alexie (7,1)

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C

Cape Fear

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Captain Newmanm M.D.

• Biography: Robert Duvall (2,1)

Capturing Friedmans

• Report from Sundance 2003: Religion in Independent Film (7,1)

Carrie

• “Angels Carrying Savage Weapons”: Uses of the Bible in Contemporary Horror Films (7,2)

Carrie (TV)

• “Angels Carrying Savage Weapons”: Uses of the Bible in Contemporary Horror Films (7,2)

Cathy Tippel

• Symbolic Power and Religion Impotence in Paul Verhoeven’s Spetters (7,2)

Casper

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Cast Away

• Searches for the Significant: Robert Zemeckis’ Cast Away as a Late Twentieth Century Response to Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Carusoe (9,1)
• Castaway and Cast Away: Colonial, Imperial, and Religious Discourses in Daniel Defoe and Robert Zemeckis (9,1)

The Castle

• Film Review: Holy Smoke (Pannell) (4,2)

Celebrating the Prophet in the Remembrance of God: Sufi Dhikr in Egypt

• Ritual, Music, Sociability and Censure: Making a Film on Sufi 'DHIKR' in Egypt (2,1)

The Cell

• Film Review: The Cell (4,2)

Central Station (Central do Brasil)

• Blessed Broken Bodies: Exploring Redemption in Central Station and Breaking the Waves (8,1)
• Faith and the Absent Savior in Central Station (5,1)

Chariots of Fire

• Book Review: Hollywood Worldviews: Watching Films With Wisdom & Discernment

The Chase

• Biography: Robert Duvall (2,1)

Chasing Buddha

• Report from Sundance 2000: Religion in Independent Film (4,1)

Children of the Corn

• “Angels Carrying Savage Weapons”: Uses of the Bible in Contemporary Horror Films (7,2)

Chocolat

• Film Review: Chocolat (5,1)

The Chosen

• Report from Sundance 2003: Religion in Independent Film (7, 1)

A Christmas Carol

• Book Review: Finding Meaning at the Movies

Chrystal

• Report from Sundance 2004: Religion in Independent Film (8,1)

Cielo sulla palude (Heaven over the Marshes)

• Cinema and Theology: The Case of Heaven Over Marshes (6,2)

City of Dreams

• Report from Sundance 1999: Religion in Independent Film (3,1)

City Slickers

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

The Clay Bird (Matir Moina)

• Film Review: Matir Moina (The Clay Bird) (7, 1)

Clear and Present Danger

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Cleopatra

• From Peepshow to Prayer: Toward a Spirituality of the Movies (6,2)

The Client

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Cliffhanger

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Clochemerle (The Scandals of Clochermerle)

• Cinema and Theology: The Case of Heaven Over Marshes (6,2)

A Clockwork Orange

• The Messianic Figure in Film: Christology Beyond the Biblical Epic (2,2)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

• Epiphany of the Throne-Chariot: Merkabah Mysticism and the Film Contact (9,1)
• Teaching Religion and Film (2,3)
• Religious Faith and Science in Contact (2,2)

Clueless

• Still Crazy: An Unsung Homage to the New Testament (8,2)

Cocoon

• Anti-Feminism in Recent Apocalyptic Film (4,1)
• Report from Sundance 1999: Religion in Independent Film (3,1)

Colors

• Biography: Robert Duvall (2,1)

Come to the Stable

• From Peepshow to Prayer: Toward a Spirituality of the Movies (6,2)

The Commitments

• Still Crazy: An Unsung Homage to the New Testament (8,2)

ConAir

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Coneheads

• Scripture on the Silver Screen (3,1)

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (9,1)

Congo

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Conspiracy Theory

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Constantine

• Film Review: Constantine (9,1)

Contact

• Book Review: Finding Meaning at the Movies
• Epiphany of the Throne-Chariot: Merkabah Mysticism and the Film Contact (9,1)
• Anti-Feminism in Recent Apocalyptic Film (4,1)
• Apocalyptic Visions (4,1)
• Armageddon at the Millenial Dawn (4,1)
• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)
• Report from Sundance 1999: Religion in Independent Film (3,1)
• Religious Faith and Science in Contact (2,2)

The Conversation

• Biography: Robert Duvall (2,1)

Convicts

• Biography: Robert Duvall (2,1)

Cookie's Fortune

• Report from Sundance 1999: Religion in Independent Film (3,1)

Cool Hand Luke

• Scripture on the Silver Screen (3,1)
• The Messianic Figure in Film: Christology Beyond the Biblical Epic (2,2)

Cool Runnings

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

The Countdown

• Biography: Robert Duvall (2,1)

Courage Under Fire

• Discussion: Religion, Theology and Film in a Post-Modern Age
• Lyden/Marsh Discussion (Religion, Film and Postmodernity)

Cows

• Film Review: Lovers of the Arctic Circles (3,2)

Crash

• Film Review: Crash (9,2)

Cries & Whispers

• Book Review: Finding Meaning at the Movies
• Editorial (2,1)

The Crime of Father Amaro (El Crimen del Padre Amaro)

• Film Review: The Crime of Father Amaro (8, 1)

Crimson Tide

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Crossfire

• 'The Ties That Bind and Bless the Soul': Grace and Noir in Schrader's Light Sleeper (2,2)

Crossing Delancey

• Redressing Jewish Difference in Tania Modleski's 'Cinema and the Dark Continent' (1,2)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

• Portraying the Quest for Buddhist Wisdom?: A Comparative Study of The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (10,1)
• When The Master Is Not Master: The Critique of Enlightenment in Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (7,2)
• Film Review: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (5,1)

The Crying Game

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

The Cup

• Report from Sundance 2000: Religion in Independent Film (4,1)

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Dancer in the Dark

• Film Review: Dogville (9,1)
• Film Review: Dancer in the Dark (4,2)

Dances With Wolves

• Native American Religion and Film: Interviews with Chris Eyre and Sherman Alexie (7,1)
• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)
• Religion and Popular Movies (2,3)

Dangerous Minds

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Dark City

• Robot Heavens and Robot Dreams: Ultimate Reality in A.I. and Other Recent Films (7,2)

Dark Passage

• 'The Ties That Bind and Bless the Soul': Grace and Noir in Schrader's Light Sleeper (2,2)

Daughters of the Dust

• Book Review: Finding Meaning at the Movies
• To Commend or To Critique? The Question of Religion and Film Studies (1,2)

Dave

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

David and Bathsheba

• From Peepshow to Prayer: Toward a Spirituality of the Movies (6,2)

The Day After

• Seeing Beyond the End of the World in Strange Days and Until the End of the World (7,1)

The Day the Earth Stood Still

• “The Day the Earth Stood Still”: 1950’s Sci-Fi, Religion and the Alien Messiah (9,2)
• Robot Heavens and Robot Dreams: Ultimate Reality in A.I. and Other Recent Films (7,2)
• Teaching Religion and Film (2,3)

Days of Thunder

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)
• Biography: Robert Duvall (2,1)

Dead Man

• ‘It all happens here:’ Locating Salvation in Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant (7,1)
• Archetypes on Screen: Odysseus, St. Paul, Christ and the American Cinematic Hero and Anti-Hero (9,1)
• Imag(in)ing Otherness: Filmic Visions of Living Together (Book Review)
• Film Review: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (4,2)
• Editorial (2,3)
• Jesus in Film: Hollywood Perspectives on the Jewishness of Jesus (2,2)

Dead Man Walking

• Archetypes on Screen: Odysseus, St. Paul, Christ and the American Cinematic Hero and Anti-Hero (9,1)
• ‘It all happens here:’ Locating Salvation in Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant (7,1)
• From Peepshow to Prayer: Toward a Spirituality of the Movies (6,2)
• Scripture on the Silver Screen (3,1)
• Religion and Film: Capturing the Imagination (2,3)
• Religion and Popular Movies (2,3)
• Jesus in Film: Hollywood Perspectives on the Jewishness of Jesus (2,2)

Dead Poet's Society

• The Messianic Figure in Film: Christology Beyond the Biblical Epic (2,2)

Death in Love

• Report from Sundance 2008: Religion in Independent Film (12, 1)

Decalogue (Dekalog)

• From "The Ten Commandments" to the Decalogue (7,1)

Deep Impact

• Anti-Feminism in Recent Apocalyptic Film (4,1)
• Apocalyptic Visions (4,1)
• Armageddon at the Millenial Dawn (4,1)
• Biography: Robert Duvall (2,1)
• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)
• Scripture on the Silver Screen (3,1)

Defending Your Life (1977)

• Robot Heavens and Robot Dreams: Ultimate Reality in A.I. and Other Recent Films (7,2)

Defending Your Life (1991)

• Robot Heavens and Robot Dreams: Ultimate Reality in A.I. and Other Recent Films (7,2)

Dekada 70

• Film Review: Dekada 70 (8, 1)

Dekalog (Decalogue)

• From "The Ten Commandments" to the Decalogue (7,1)

Demolition Man

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

The Detective

• Biography: Robert Duvall (2,1)

Devil's Advocate

• Film Review: Constantine (9,1)
• The Devil We Already Know: Medieval Representations of a Powerless Satan in Modern American Cinema (8,2)

The Devil's Manor (Le Manoir du diable)

• The Devil We Already Know: Medieval Representations of a Powerless Satan in Modern American Cinema (8,2)

Dhakiyarr vs the King

• Report from Sundance 2005: Religion in Independent Film (9,1)

Diarios de Motocicleta (The Motorcycle Diaries)

• Film Review: The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de Motocicleta) (9,1)

Diary of a Country Priest (Journal d'un curé de campagne)

• Diary of a Country Priest: The Transcendent on Film(10,2)
Book Review: Finding Meaning at the Movies
• Filmgoer's Guide to God (9, 2)

Dick Tracy

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Die Hard

• Archetypes on Screen: Odysseus, St. Paul, Christ and the American Cinematic Hero and Anti-Hero (9,1)

Die Hard 2

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Die Hard: With a Vengence

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Dinner with the President: A Nation's Journey

• Report from Sundance 2008: Religion in Independent Film (21, 1)

Dirty Harry

• To Commend or To Critique? The Question of Religion and Film Studies (1,2)

Disclosure

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Divine Intervention

• Film Review: Divine Intervention (7, 1)

Dogma

• Film Review: Constantine (9,1)

Dogville

• Film Review: The Terminal (9,1)
• Film Review: Dogville (9,1)

Dopamine

• Film Review: Dopamine (10,1)

Double Indemnity

• 'The Ties That Bind and Bless the Soul': Grace and Noir in Schrader's Light Sleeper (2,2)

The Double Life of Veronique

• From The Ten Commandments to the Decalogue (7,1)
• Film Review: Lovers of the Arctic Circle (3,2)

Dr. Dolittle

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Dr. Strangelove

• Armageddon at the Millenial Dawn (4,1)

Dreams (Yume)

• Film Review: Vajra Sky Over Tibet (11, 2)
• Robot Heavens and Robot Dreams: Ultimate Reality in A.I. and Other Recent Films (7,2)

DS9 (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)

• Any Gods Out There? Perceptions of Religion from Star Wars and Star Trek (7, 2)

Dumb and Dumber

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Dunia

Durakovo: Village of Fools

• Report from Sundance 2008: Religion in Independent Film (12, 1)

E

8 Mile

• Film Review: 8 Mile (7, 1)

E.T.

• Anti-Feminism in Recent Apocalyptic Film (4,1)
• Teaching Religion and Film (2,3)

The Eagle Has Landed

• Biography: Robert Duvall (2,1)

Eat Drink Man Woman

• When The Master Is Not Master: The Critique of Enlightenment in Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (7,2)

Eat, for This Is My Body

• Report from Sundance 2008: Religion in Independent Film (12, 1)

Edge of America

• Report from Sundance 2004: Religion in Independent Film (8,1)

EdTV

• Robot Heavens and Robot Dreams: Ultimate Reality in A.I. and Other Recent Films (7,2)

The Education of Shelby Knox

• Report from Sundance 2005: Religion in Independent Film (9,1)

Edward Scissorhands

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

El Crimen del Padre Amaro (The Crime of Father Amaro)

El Inmortal

• Report from Sundance 2005: Religion in Independent Film (9,1)

El Maquinista (The Machinist)

• Film Review: The Machinist (10,1)

Elmer Gantry

• The Apostle: A Psychiatric Appraisal (3,2)
• The Apostle: An Interview with Robert Duvall (2,1)

Emma

• Still Crazy: An Unsung Homage to the New Testament (8,2)

The Empire Strikes Back (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back)

• The Apocalyptic Cosmology of Star Wars (4,1)

End of Days

• Seeing Beyond the End of the World in Strange Days and Until the End of the World (7,1)
• The Devil We Already Know: Medieval Representations of a Powerless Satan in Modern American Cinema (8,2)
• Faith and the Absent Savior in Central Station (5,1)

End of Evangelion: Air/Sincerely Yours (Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion;, Shin seiki Evangelion Gekijô-ban: Air/Magokoro wo, kimi ni, )

• Robot Heavens and Robot Dreams: Ultimate Reality in A.I. and Other Recent Films (7, 2)

Enemy of the State

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

The English Patient

• Book Review: Finding Meaning at the Movies
• Twice Repressed: The Case of Ondaatje's Kip (8, 1)
• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Enquête sur le monde invisible (Investigations into the Invisible World)

• Report from Sundance 2004: Religion in Independent Film (8,1)

Enterprise [TV-Series 2001-????]

• Any Gods Out There? Perceptions of Religion from Star Wars and Star Trek (7,2)

Entertaining Angels

• From Peepshow to Prayer: Toward a Spirituality of the Movies (6,2)
• Editorial (2,1)

Equilibrium

• Film Review: Equilibrium (7, 2)

Eraser

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Minds

• A Community of Characters – the Narrative Self in the Films of Wes Anderson (9,2)
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the Question of Transcendence (9,1)
• Film Review: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (9,1)

Evangelion: Death & Rebirth (Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth; Shin seiki Evangelion Gekijô-ban: Shito shinsei)

Eve and the Fire Horse

• Report from Sundance 2006: Religion in Independent Film (10,1)

Everyone Says I Love You

• Film Review: Keeping the Faith (4,2)

Everything's For You

• Performing Selves/Performing as Self: Autobiographical Films of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors (3,2)
• Editorial (2,1)

Executive Decision

• Film Review: The Kingdom (11, 2)
• From Navy Seals to The Siege: Getting to Know the Muslim Terrorist, Hollywood Style (9,2)

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

• Film Review: The Exorcism of Emily Rose (10,1)

The Exorcist

• The Devil We Already Know: Medieval Representations of a Powerless Satan in Modern American Cinema (8,2)
• Teaching Religion and Film (2,3)

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

• Report from Sundance 2000: Religion in Independent Film (4,1)

Eyes Wide Shut

• Robot Heavens and Robot Dreams: Ultimate Reality in A.I. and Other Recent Films (7,2)
• The Dharma Blues (6,1)

F

Fabiola

• Cinema and Theology: The Case of Heaven Over the Marshes (6,2)

Face/Off

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Falling Down

• Biography: Robert Duvall (2,1)

A Family Thing

• Biography: Robert Duvall (2,1)

Fargo

• The Sweet Hereafter: Law, Wisdom and Family Revisited (5,1)
• Fargo: A Biblical Morality Play (4,2)

Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control

• Report from Sundance 1999: Religion in Independent Film (3,1)

The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat)

• Film Review:Atanarjuat (6,2)

Fatal Attraction

• To Commend or To Critique? The Question of Religion and Film Studies (1,2)

Father of the Bride

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Father of the Bride Part II

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Ferrebique

• Cinema and Theology: The Case of Heaven Over the Marshes (6,2

A Few Good Men

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Fiddler on the Roof

• Report from Sundance 2003: Religion in Independent Film (7,1)

Field of Dreams

• Religion and Popular Movies (2,3)
• Teaching Field of Dreams as Cosmogonic Myth (2,3)
• Editorial (2,3)

The Fifth Element

• Anti-Feminism in Recent Apocalyptic Film (4,1)
• Apocalyptic Visions (4,1)
• Bruce Willis as the Messiah: Human Effort, Salvation and Apocalypticism in Twelve Monkeys (4,1)

The 5^th World

• Report from Sundance 2005: Religion in Independent Film (9,1)

Fight Club

• Robot Heavens and Robot Dreams: Ultimate Reality in A.I. and Other Recent Films (7,2)
• Film Review: Keeping the Faith (4,2)

The Firm

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

First Blood (Rambo: First Blood)

• Archetypes on Screen: Odysseus, St. Paul, Christ and the American Cinematic Hero and Anti-Hero (9,1)

The First Wives Club

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

The Fisher King

• Buddhism, Christianity, and The Matrix:The Dialectic of Myth-Making in Contemporary Cinema 4,2)
• Religion and Popular Movies (2,3)
• Visions of the End. Secular Apocalypse in Recent Hollywood Film (2,1)

5 Days

• Report from Sundance 2006: Religion in Independent Film (10,1)

Flatliners

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)
• Images of God in the Movies (1,1)

Fletch

• The Story Behind YAKOANA: An Interview with Anh Crutcher (3,1)

Flight of the Phoenix

• Film Review: Flight of the Phoenix (10,1)

The Flintstones

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

The Flowers of St. Francis

• From Peepshow to Prayer: Toward a Spirituality of the Movies (6,2)

Flubber

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Forrest Gump

• Book Review: Hollywood Worldviews: Watching Films With Wisdom & Discernment
• Book Review: Finding Meaning at the Movies
• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

The Fourth Man (De Vierde Man)

• Symbolic Power and Religion Impotence in Paul Verhoeven’s Spetters (7,2)

Frankenstein

• Film Review: Sleepy Hollow (4,1)
• Scripture on the Silver Screen (3,1)

Free Willy

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Fried Green Tomatoes

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Frozen Angels

• Report from Sundance 2005: Religion in Independent Film (9,1)

The Fugitive

• Archetypes on Screen: Odysseus, St. Paul, Christ and the American Cinematic Hero and Anti-Hero (9,1)
• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Full Metal Jacket

• The Dharma Blues (6,1)

The Full Monty

• Still Crazy: An Unsung Homage to the New Testament (8,2)
• Fantasy Verses Redemption: Religious Possibility in Little Voice (4,2)

The Funeral

• Filmgoer's Guide to God (9, 2)

Back to Top

G

Gabbeh

• Film Review: The Silence (4,2)

Gandhi

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Gangs of New York

• Film Review: Gangs of New York (7, 1)

Garden State

• A Community of Characters – the Narrative Self in the Films of Wes Anderson (9,2)

Gates of Heaven

• Report from Sundance 1999: Religion in Independent Films (3,1)

Die Geduld der Rosa Luxemburg (Rosa Luxemburg)

• Memory and Responsibility: An Interview with Margarethe von Trotta on Rosenstrasse (12, 1)

George of the Jungle

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead

• Report from Sundance 2008: Religion in Independent Film (12, 1)

Geronimo

• Biography: Robert Duvall (2,1)

• Film Review: Vajra Sky Over Tibet (11, 2)

Gesture Down (I Don't Sing)

• Report from Sundance 2006: Religion in Independent Film (10,1)

Get Shorty

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Ghost

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Ghost Dog

• Film Review: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (4,2)
• Film Review: Ghost Dog (4,1)

The Giant Buddhas

• Report from Sundance: Religion in Independent Film (10,1)

The Gift

• Report from Sundance 1999: Religion in Independent Film (3,1)

The Gingerbread Man

• Report from Sundance 1999: Religion in Independent Film (3,1)

Gladiator

• From Peepshow to Prayer: Toward a Spirituality of the Movies (6,2)
• Film Review: Gladiator (4,2)

Glory

• Archetypes on Screen: Odysseus, St. Paul, Christ and the American Cinematic Hero and Anti-Hero (9,1)

God and Monsters

• Film Review: Kinsey (9,1)

God Grew Tired of Us: The Story of the Lost Boys of the Sudan

• Report from Sundance 2006: Religion in Independent Film (10,1)

The Godfather

• Revisiting Violence in The Godfather: The Ambiguous Space of the Victimage Model (9,2)
• The Holy, Non-Christic Biblical Subtexts in Superman: The Movie (1978) and Superman II (1981) (6,2)
• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)
• Biography: Robert Duvall (2,1)

The Godfather: Part II

• The Holy, Non-Christic Biblical Subtexts in Superman: The Movie (1978) and Superman II (1981) (6,2)
• Biography: Robert Duvall (2,1)

The Godfather: Part III

• The Holy, Non-Christic Biblical Subtexts in Superman: The Movie (1978) and Superman II (1981) (6,2)
• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

God's Army

• Film Review: God's Army (4,2)

Godspell

• Book Review: Reading the Gospels in the Dark: Portrayals of Jesus in Film
• Do You Think You're What They Say You Are? Reflections on Jesus Christ Superstar (3,2)

Godzilla

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Going My Way

• From Peepshow to Prayer: Toward a Spirituality of the Movies (6,2)
• Cinema and Theology: The Case of Heaven Over Marshes (6,2)
• Editorial (2,1)

The Golden Compass

• Report from Sundance 2008: Religion in Independent Film (12, 1)

GoldenEye

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Golgotha

• Cinema and Theology: The Case of Heaven Over Marshes (6,2)

Gone with the Wind

• To Commend or To Critique? The Question of Religion and Film Studies (1,2)

Good Will Hunting

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

The Gospel (Vangelo secondo Matteo, II)

• Cinema and Theology: The Case of Heaven Over Marshes (6,2)

The Gospel According to St. Matthew

• Book Review: Filmgoer's Guide to God (9, 2)
• Book Review: Reading the Gospels in the Dark: Portrayals of Jesus in Film
Do You Think You're What They Say You Are? Reflections on Jesus Christ Superstar (3,2)
• Scripture on the Silver Screen (3,1)
• Religion and Film: Capturing the Imagination (2,3)
• A Picture's Worth: Teaching Religion and Film (2,3)
• Jesus in Film: Hollywood Perspectives on the Jewishness of Jesus (2,2)

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid

• Biography: Robert Duvall (2,1)

The Great Santini

• Biography: Robert Duvall (2,1)
• Editorial (1,2)

The Greatest Story Ever Told

• Amma n movies–an introduction (9,2)
• Book Review: Screen Christologies: Redemption and the Medium of Film
• Book Review: Reading the Gospels in the Dark: Portrayals of Jesus in Film
• Archetypes on Screen: Odysseus, St. Paul, Christ and the American Cinematic Hero and Anti-Hero (9,1)
• Fargo: A Biblical Morality Play (4,2)
• Do You Think You're What They Say You Are? Reflections on Jesus Christ Superstar (3,2)
• The Messianic Figure in Film: Christology Beyond the Biblical Epic (2,2)

The Greatest

• Biography: Robert Duvall (2,1)

Green Bush

• Report from Sundance 2005: Religion in Independent Film (9,1)

The Green Mile

• Faith and the Absent Savior in Central Station (5,1)

Grizzly Man

• Film Review: Grizzly Man (10,1)

Groove

• Report from Sundance 2000: Religion in Independent Film (4,1)

Groundhog Day

• Book Review: Hollywood Worldviews: Watching Films With Wisdom & Discernment
• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Grumpy Old Men

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Grumpier Old Men

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

• To Commend or To Critique? The Question of Religion and Film Studies (1,2)

Guitar

• Report from Sundance 2008: Religion in Independent Film (12, 1)

The Guru

• Film Review: The Guru (7, 1)

H

Half-Life

• Report from Sundance 2008: Religion in Independent Film (12, 1)

Half Sister

• Editorial (2,1)

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

The Handmaid's Tale

• Biography: Robert Duvall (2,1)

Hannibal

• Film Review: Hannibal (5,1)

Happy Endings

• Report from Sundance 2005: Religion in Independent Film (9,1)

Happy Texas

• Report from Sundance 1999: Religion in Independent Films (3,1)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

• Bewitching the Box Office: Harry Potter and Religious Controversy (7,2)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

• Film Review: Harry Potter, The Goblet of Fire...And the Communion of Saints (10,1)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

• Bewitching the Box Office: Harry Potter and Religious Controversy (7,2)
• Film Review: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (6,1)

Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged?

• Bewitching the Box Office: Harry Potter and Religious Controversy (7,2)

Hawaii

• Religion and Film: Capturing the Imagination (2,3)

Hawk is Dying

• Report from Sundance: Religion in Independent Film (10,1)

Heart of Light

• Report from Sundance 1999: Religion in Independent Film (3,1)
• Editorial (3,1)

Heaven

• Film Review: Heaven (7,1)

Heaven Over the Marshes (Cielo sulla palude)

• Cinema and Theology: The Case of Heaven Over Marshes (6,2)

The Hebrew Hammer

• Report from Sundance 2003: Religion in Independent Film (7,1)

Hell House

• Film Review: Hell House (7,1)

Hellbound: Hellraiser II

• The Devil We Already Know: Medieval Representations of a Powerless Satan in Modern American Cinema (8,2)

Hellboy

• Film Review: Constantine (9,1)

Henry & June

• The Story Behind YAKOANA: An Interview with Anh Crutcher (3,1)

Hercules

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Hidden Medicine

• Report from Sundance 1999: Religion in Independent Film (3,1)

High Noon

• Book Review: Finding Meaning at the Movies

Hollow Man

• Symbolic Power and Religion Impotence in Paul Verhoeven ’s Spetters (7,2)
• The Invisible Body of God: Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man (8,1)

The Holy Girl

• Film Review: The Holy Girl (10,1)

Holy Smoke!

• Film Review: Holy Smoke [Makarushka] (4,2)
• Film Review: Holy Smoke [Pannell] (4,2)

Home Alone

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Home Alone 2

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Hook

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

Hot Shots!

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

The House

• Report from Sundance 1999: Religion in Independent Films (3,1)

The House of Sand and Fog

• Film Review: The House of Sand and Fog (8,1)

Hsi Yen (The Wedding Banquet)

• When The Master Is Not Master: The Critique of Enlightenment in Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (7, 2)

Human Nature

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the Question of Transcendence (9,1)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

The Hunt for Red October

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

I

I Am Legend

• Film Review: I Am Legend (12, 1)

I ♥ Huckabees

• Film Review: I ♥ Huckabees (10,1)

I, Robot

• I, Robot: You Gotta Have Heart (9,2)

Ice Age

• Film Review: Ice Age (6,1)

The Ice Storm

• When The Master Is Not Master: The Critique of Enlightenment in Ang Lee ’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (7,2)

Igby Goes Down

• Film Review: Igby Goes Down (6,2)

I Know What You Did Last Summer

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film (3,1)

In Good Conscience: Sister Jeannine Gramick’s Journey of Fai

• Film Review: In Good Conscience: Sister Jeannine Gramick’s Journey of Faith (12,1)