I have to admit that I’m not the best person to write this! My film repertoire is reasonable but not as expansive as Rob or Laura.
Film 1 – American Beauty – Ecclesiastes on film, is there a film that sums up the contemporary search for meaning better?
Film 2 – 24hr Party People – The film that charts the rise of the Madchester Music scene of the 80’s and early 90’s. Great film that sets the cultural context of our beautiful city.
Film 3 – Amelie – A film about bringing happiness to people and the beauty of the ordinary. As greenbelt would say ‘heaven in the ordinary’ , a major sanctus1 theme – God is not just found in the extraordinary, but in the everyday and in the crap too!
Film 4 – Run Lola Run – a film about providence, chance and the random nature of life. Great soundtrack, creatively shot and fantastic for theological reflection.
Film 5 - Walk the Line - I love Johnny Cash, so what better reason than that? We also based a service around the stort of Johnny Cash which i think was superb!
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The five most (re)used Sanctus1 films, I hear you ask?
1 – The Shawshank Redemption
2 - American Beauty
3 – Dead Man Walking
4 – Magnolia
5 – The Last Temptation of Christ
(all in no particular order)
6 - Phone Booth
7 - Anything by M Night Shyamalan
8 - That zoom shot from universe to eye (Contact?)
9 - Bill & Ted
And a new entry at number 10:
10 - Chocolat
OOoooo - and how could we forget Fight Club and The Matrix?
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