Here's today's dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture.
For Greater Glory and The Way score ALMA nominations. The National Council of La Raza has announced this year's American Latino Media Arts (ALMA) Award nominees and two faith film are prominently represented.
For Greater Glory, the historical action epic Mexico’s Cristero War for religious freedom, is this year's most-nominated film with five nominations – including...
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Here are today's dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture.
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For Greater Glory:
Epic and timely.
Synopsis: In the late 1920's, a ragtag group of Mexicans take up resist their government's crackdown on religious liberty -- a crackdown, in this instance, directed at the Catholic Church.
Enrique Gorostieta Velarde (Andy Garcia), a retired general...
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Here's today's dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture.
Yesterday, this space featured an interview with Eduardo Verástegui (
Bella) in which he spoke about his riveting supporting role as
Anacleto González Flores in the historical epic
For Greater Glory which opens in U.S. theaters next Friday (June 1). The story, as noted, chronicles the events of Mexico’s
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Here's today's dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture.
It's ironic that For Greater Glory, a film about Mexico's little-discussed Cristero War, an early 20th century uprising against government intrusion on religious liberty, is set to open in the U.S. next Friday (June 1). Coming less than two weeks after Read the full post here »
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(JUL 06, 2006) Barry Bowen on ChristianHeadlines.com gives a brief overview of the History of Christian Films:
A History of Christian Films
(EXCERPT) Before the invention of the movie projector, European audiences gathered in darkened rooms to watch magic lantern presentations. Catholic priest Athanasius Kircher helped popularize the magic lantern, a simple slide projector, by publishing the book Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae in 1680. Magic lanterns used a candle or lamp as a light source. Images were projected onto a sheet or wall.
Controversy soon followed as priests and masons used the lanterns “to persuade followers of their ability to control both the forces of darkness and enlightenment” and temperance groups used the lanterns to fight alcoholism.
