Archive - Film of the Week of Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

November 2024

Great Expectations (1946)

Happy Thanksgiving to our American friends! Here's the film we consider the best adaptation of any of Charles Dickens' novels, and that's a high bar to…

Nov 28 •

Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

In this film, Cary Grant, as manager of a small fly-by-night air mail service in South America, must take big risks to make his company a success.

Nov 21 •

Random Harvest (1942)

Amnesia, the wholesale breach in a person’s lived remembrance, has the potential for acute dramatic irony in a film. And Ronald Coleman is perfect in…

Nov 14 •

Angels in the Outfield (1951)

Our Film of the Week, Angels in the Outfield, takes us to Pittsburgh when the Pirates were absolutely awful. In fact, they needed a miracle.

Nov 7 •

October 2024

All My Sons (1948)

Directed by Irving Reis

Oct 31 •

Twelve O'Clock High (1949)

Our film this week is the most unusual and cerebral war movie I’ve ever seen. If you are looking for modern special effects, this is not your film.

Oct 24 •

A Night to Remember (1958)

The night was April 15, 1912. The weather was fair, and the ship was the greatest ever conceived by the human mind and built by human hands.

Oct 18 •

Kings Row (1942)

Can friendship be put to a sterner test than death? Watch our Film of the Week to find out.

Oct 10 •

Odd Man Out (1947)

Our film is about a terrorist Irish patriot, on the lam after escaping from prison. He's been ordered to rob a mill. But is he up to the task…

Oct 3 •

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