My congratulations to the poet and visual Margaret Smith for the unveiling of a new website that details her latest, admirable endeavor…
Read all about HOPE STUDIOS. You just may want one for yourself
November 1, 2008 by Jeffrey Overstreet
My congratulations to the poet and visual Margaret Smith for the unveiling of a new website that details her latest, admirable endeavor…
Read all about HOPE STUDIOS. You just may want one for yourself
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For a limited time: Pick up any three books by Jeffrey Overstreet for Christmas gifts, send him a photograph of the books in your hands, and he'll send you a signed Auralia's Colors/Cyndere's Midnight poster. You'll find Cyndere's Midnight, Auralia's Colors, and Through a Screen Darkly in bookstores and on booksites everywhere. Try Barnes and Noble and Third Place Books.
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Welcome to Jeffrey Overstreet's blog. You're invited to consider and discuss news, reviews, and perspectives on movies, music, literature, culture, faith, and Jeffrey's books. (Please observe the Comments Policy below.)
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- MySpace
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Jeffrey is now writing about film for Image. (Archives here.)

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Jeffrey reviews movies for Christianity Today and writes a monthly column on film named after his book: Through a Screen Darkly.
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Jeffrey is a contributing editor for Response magazine, published at Seattle Pacific University.
The Auralia Thread is a 4-book series: Auralia's Colors, Cyndere's Midnight, Cal-raven's Ladder (2010), and an as-yet-untitled conclusion (2011?)
Order Auralia's Colors from: Barnes and Noble.com.
Visit Auralia here.

- *Starred Review* in Publisher's Weekly
"Inspirational. Sometimes all of us forget that love for movies, that internal spark inside us that movies lit, and [Overstreet's] book is going to remind many of us about it."- Darren Aronofsky, director of Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain
Order Through a Screen Darkly from: Barnes and Noble.com.
contributions to Response magazine
...and here's my viewing journal for 2008.
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Come, gather round people, wherever you roam! For the times... they are a'changin'.
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Congratulations to the winners of tthe Looking Closer movie review contest!.
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A few thoughts about the summer's biggest blockbuster here, here, and here.
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My conversation with WALLE writer/director Andrew Stanton.
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Here's my commentary on the recent Sex and the City hubbub, in which Focus on the Family's Ted Slater publicly claims that Christianity Today "relishes sexual peversion," and that CT film critic Camerin Courtney "enjoys soft-porn"... despite all evidence to the contrary. And still no apology from Slater or Focus on the Family, despite Scripture's strong words about judgment and claims of clairvoyance. Amazing. (Plus: Slater responds, and only makes things worse.)
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Did The Passion of the Christ change moviemaking? Are we entering a new era of changing Hollywood for Christ? Find out!
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In other words: Is The Lord of the Rings a celebration of life without the church?
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Andrew Adamson's entertaining epic is not so much an adaptation as a reinvention. He turns this fairy tale about faith, myth, and children into a violent Lord of the Rings-style war movie about battles, battles, and more battles. He robs Aslan of authority (again), and steals the film from the audience that Lewis had in mind. Boooooo! (Plus: My review of Prince Caspian.)
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Fairy tales and fantasy stories... what good are they? A celebration of the stories of Madeleine L'Engle, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and George MacDonald.
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Monks, rats, mass murderers, sex dolls, an "oil man", and a guy who's unable to move anything but his left eye. What do they have in common? They're in some of Jeffrey's favorite films of the year!
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- Please speak up! This blog exists to encourage conversation. I've learned a lot here, even (and especially) from those who know how to (respectfully) disagree.
- I reserve the right to approve or delete any comments, so I can keep the "dialogue" on-topic and civil. This is not an "anything goes" site.
- Please keep comments fairly brief. No manifestos. No essays. Feel free to include links to your own sites, where you can ramble on as much as you like.
- If a back-and-forth debate gets on my nerves, I'll delete it. My nerves get enough trouble as it is. Take the debates into email, please.
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In no particular order...
Recent DVDs I recommend for film-lovers' personal collections:
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