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Drop in on Thursday for a weekend movie recommendation, with brief information about the film and some things to think about as you watch. Please leave a comment if you do decide to watch the film!

Elwood P. Dodd is a man who likes everybody he meets, and who, as he says to the director of the Funny Farm where the family’s trying to get him, er…
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Berenice has a place in the world, but nobody around her understands what it is. For them, she is but a menial, a cook. But she is like a moral…
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Directed by Henry King | In Shakespeare’s time, there was a whole category of drama called the “revenge tragedy,” and "The Bravados" skates close to it…
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David Lean, Director | Who’d have thought, when I was a boy and our Film of the Week, The Bridge on the River Kwai, was shown on television once a year…
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3
Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and that should be a time when we consider the delight that men and women take in one another, and rightly so. But…
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I’ve shown this film to homeschoolers, and they laughed with its comedy, and shed a tear or two with its tragedy – but it is not tragedy. It is comedy…
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We’ve been talking about gladness here at Word and Song, so I’m going to recommend a movie that will surely make you glad, if you have a heart for…
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Philippe has to learn what we all learn, that man is not as he wishes to appear to be to others or even to himself. We are all Adam and Eve, hiding from…
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Much about this film feels to me as if it came from a moral and cultural universe more alien to us than even Antarctica is.
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Mr. Craven (Herbert Marshall) has shut up the high-walled garden that his wife loved, where she suffered the accident that caused her death. The…
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Directed by Mitchell Leisen
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Frank Capra's Lessons for Christians and for Our World
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Directed by Peter Godfrey
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Based on the play by George Kaufman and Moss Hart. Directed by William Keighley
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George Stevens, Director
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Happy Thanksgiving!
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5
Directed by Leo McCarey
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Directed by William Wellman
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Directed by John Ford
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Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Dr. Praetorius spent several years in a rural town not as an ordinary butcher pretending to be a healer, but as a…
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Elwood P. Dodd is a man who likes everybody he meets, and who, as he says to the director of the Funny Farm where the family’s trying to get him, er…
Anthony Esolen
8
Berenice has a place in the world, but nobody around her understands what it is. For them, she is but a menial, a cook. But she is like a moral…
Anthony Esolen
3
Directed by Henry King | In Shakespeare’s time, there was a whole category of drama called the “revenge tragedy,” and "The Bravados" skates close to it…
Anthony Esolen
3
David Lean, Director | Who’d have thought, when I was a boy and our Film of the Week, The Bridge on the River Kwai, was shown on television once a year…
Anthony Esolen
3
Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and that should be a time when we consider the delight that men and women take in one another, and rightly so. But…
Anthony Esolen
I’ve shown this film to homeschoolers, and they laughed with its comedy, and shed a tear or two with its tragedy – but it is not tragedy. It is comedy…
Anthony Esolen
3
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