Catholic in Film School

I’ve been meaning to make a post about upcoming animated films for a while:
The Princess and the Frog
The Princess and the Frog will debut in 2009. Set in New Orleans, this film will feature the first black princess in an animated Disney movie…ever. I don’t care what anyone says, Nala from the Lion King doesn’t [...]

Despite the fact that I have been incredibly excited about the movie all year, I have not seen The Dark Knight just yet. I went to the movies last Friday, but my mother refused to see it due to Christian Bale’s erm…legal troubles…so we went and saw the latest installment of one of her [...]

During the last part of my interview with Mark he asked me to give a list of my top 20 films and an explanation as to why. Well, I will have you know that the title is actually kind of a misnomer. Instead of giving a list of my favorite classic and award-winning films [...]

Well, even if the movie is as bad as some are saying, this trailer isn’t deffering my excitement. Since the movie is set in Italy, it will be interesting to see how Catholicism is portrayed in the film.

Pax Christi, Rebecca.

I received an email from The Doorpost Film Project this morning stating that Ted Chung’s film “A Thousand Words” is no longer a finalist because it had already screened at Pangea Day.
In other words, Ted Chung broke the festival rules because submissions were not to have been previously screened at any official event. Such a [...]

The DoorPost Film Project has finally announced its 15 finalists. (The winners were supposed to be announced on June 2nd….I’m just sayin…)
“This Christ” by Chris Strackbein didn’t make it in, but I’m very impressed with some of the films that did. Linked are my favorites of the 15 finalists:
1. “3187345″ by Mishka Kornai
2. “A [...]

…yes it goes on and on my friend…
Let me preface this post by saying that I really did like “Bella.” In fact, I still like “Bella.” Since I purchased the DVD while I was waiting to see Prince Caspian a few weeks ago, I have watched the film a few times and thoroughly enjoyed it [...]

No, I didn’t go to the premiere, but a friend of mine did and granted me permission to publish the photos. These are personal photos, not the WireImage kind. In other words, please don’t steal them or else I won’t try to get premiere photos anymore.
Pax Christi, Rebecca.
PS: A couple of them are a [...]

Yes, I am fully aware that’s not the name of the film, but throughout the entire movie that little voice inside my head kept going, “Oh Prince Caspian, you’re so dreamy!”
I’m kidding.
The movie starts off with the birth of Prince Caspian’s nephew. It’s now been a thousand-and-something years since the “sons and daughters [...]

“Bella” hits stores today. If you go by bus, air, Ebay–whatever…just go get it. Congrats to the entire Metanoia team.

And as a random aside, congratulations to Joshua and Shannon of The Perseverance Podcast who are celebrating their third wedding anniversary today. Three cheers for Catholic love!
Pax Christi, Rebecca.

Well, I don’t know if I’m cut out to have an empire, but I’m starting something or other and it needs a title. LOL.
I just found out that my favorite teacher of all time from high school passed away a few days ago. He was awesome, one of those rare teachers that [...]

If you’re in the New Orleans area, Holy Cross College is hosting the Reel Faith Vocation Film Festival on Tuesday, Apr. 8 from 6-10 p.m. (You can find the Facebook group here.)
The main screenings are of “The Human Experience” at 6 p.m. and “The Calling” at 8:10 p.m. The festival is free and both screenings [...]

Here’s the list of all of the films shown and their companies. I wasn’t able to watch all of them on either day because of dinner obligations, but for the most part I liked what I saw.
Day 1: Friday, Feb. 29
1. The Human Experience (Trailer), Grassroots Films
I saw it while I was in San [...]

“Jumper” is so bad I can’t even link to it.
I went and saw the film a few days ago because I liked the concept (I love sci-fi/fantasy films) and I wanted some inspiration for a sci-fi sequence I’m writing for my genre class. But my God was the movie horrible. The script [...]

“Juno” got exactly what it deserved. Best Screenplay!

Now we just have to see if Diablo Cody can pump out more awesome screenplays, or if this was just a one-time thing. More Oscar commentary to come in the next vlog…
Pax Christi, Rebecca.

Pro-life film coming out of Hollywood!
Angela had this posted today and I just had to follow suit. The message is more subtle, but oh is it there:

Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who comes out in theaters March 14th.
Pax Christi, Rebecca.

Pewsitter has a link posted for the new documentary “Demographic Winter,” a film about the rapidly declining global birth rate.
Usually I’m quite wary of “doomsday” documentary films, but I’ve been reading about this phenomenon for quite some time now, and all I can say is heaven help us. With plunging birth rates all across the [...]