http://calitreview.com An arts and culture magazine. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:12:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://calitreview.com/22444 http://calitreview.com/22444#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:53:11 +0000 Dan Fields http://calitreview.com/?p=22444 The Wicker Tree has not been overwhelmingly good, but one might say it has been encouragingly mixed. The original Wicker Man did not become known as "the Citizen Kane of horror films" overnight, or even during the horror boom of the 1970s. It vanished into relative obscurity for some time before its rediscovery, and look at that baby burn now!]]> http://calitreview.com/22444/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/22369 http://calitreview.com/22369#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:03:41 +0000 Ed Voves http://calitreview.com/?p=22369 http://calitreview.com/22369/feed 2 http://calitreview.com/20969 http://calitreview.com/20969#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 03:20:51 +0000 Dan Fields http://calitreview.com/?p=20969 Courageous great art? By almost any accepted measure, no. Is it meant to be great art? Presumably not. Will it speak to your heart? Perhaps, and perhaps not. Does it achieve its goals truthfully and without pretense? Positively. Does it promote goodness, responsibility, honesty, and truth? Absolutely. Is it then a successful work? I think an "Amen" is in order.]]> http://calitreview.com/20969/feed 3 http://calitreview.com/19834 http://calitreview.com/19834#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:52:02 +0000 Ben Caro http://calitreview.com/?p=19834 http://calitreview.com/19834/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/18000 http://calitreview.com/18000#comments Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:59:53 +0000 Dan Fields http://calitreview.com/?p=18000 Black Death exploit the historical context to take shots at organized religion with impunity. A select few try to balance the mistakes of the early church with the importance of faith over dogma - an approach that Season Of The Witch admittedly tried, but got lost too far up its own butt to realize. Black Death tends toward the latter type of story, but pushes its acid satire into fairly new territory.]]> http://calitreview.com/18000/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/13205 http://calitreview.com/13205#comments Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:00:14 +0000 Dan Fields http://calitreview.com/?p=13205 Brighton Rock, adapted from Graham Greene's 1938 novel, is a captivating crime thriller and a chilling exploration of the human capacity for love, betrayal and violence. If all goes right, this will be one beautiful and scary film.]]> http://calitreview.com/13205/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/10158 http://calitreview.com/10158#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:37:54 +0000 Jem Bloomfield http://calitreview.com/?p=10158 The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ offers us a version of the gospel narratives in which not one, but two boys were born to Mary. Jesus grew up to be a millenarian preacher, who prophesied the coming of the Kingdom of God, whilst his brother Christ skulked around in the background, recording and (more often) distorting his brother’s words for posterity.]]> http://calitreview.com/10158/feed 2 http://calitreview.com/9704 http://calitreview.com/9704#comments Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:08:13 +0000 Jascha Kessler http://calitreview.com/?p=9704 http://calitreview.com/9704/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/8307 http://calitreview.com/8307#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:03:46 +0000 Ed Voves http://calitreview.com/?p=8307 http://calitreview.com/8307/feed 3 http://calitreview.com/4740 http://calitreview.com/4740#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:35:33 +0000 Ryan Van Cleave http://calitreview.com/?p=4740 http://calitreview.com/4740/feed 2 http://calitreview.com/4604 http://calitreview.com/4604#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:14:25 +0000 John R. Guthrie http://calitreview.com/?p=4604 http://calitreview.com/4604/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/4068 http://calitreview.com/4068#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:49:26 +0000 Mark Fitzgerald http://calitreview.com/?p=4068 Eat Sleep Sit, never directly tells us why he goes to Eiheiji, but he brings us inside the walls and describes the year he spent there with remarkable detail and clarity. ]]> http://calitreview.com/4068/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/4016 http://calitreview.com/4016#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:00:25 +0000 Jascha Kessler http://calitreview.com/?p=4016 I think, therefore I am. Instead it was, I act, therefore I am. As for fishing, Thoreau never tells us what sort of fish there are, or were in his stream; nor if he ever caught anything. It was the fishing that was his active thought, and that sky full of pebbled stars was where his thought was actively cast. That is poetry, and it is untranslatable as paraphrase or a set of maxims. Whereas the sort of profundities Stephen Mitchell sets down in this book — neatly-designed and printed withal — are for this reader rebarbative. ]]> http://calitreview.com/4016/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/2215 http://calitreview.com/2215#comments Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:07:24 +0000 David Loftus http://calitreview.com/?p=2215 http://calitreview.com/2215/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/1331 http://calitreview.com/1331#comments Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:33:50 +0000 Paul Comstock http://calitreview.com/?p=1331 http://calitreview.com/1331/feed 2 http://calitreview.com/1102 http://calitreview.com/1102#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:19:01 +0000 Kelly Hartog http://calitreview.com/?p=1102 San Francisco Chronicle back in 2005. “I was writing a feature about how cool it is to be a Jew in San Francisco and I profiled local ‘Heebsters’ as I now call them,” she says.]]> http://calitreview.com/1102/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/764 http://calitreview.com/764#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:17:27 +0000 Adrian Murdoch http://calitreview.com/?p=764 http://calitreview.com/764/feed 2 http://calitreview.com/592 http://calitreview.com/592#comments Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:59:56 +0000 Ed Voves http://calitreview.com/topics/spain/592/ http://calitreview.com/592/feed 2 http://calitreview.com/563 http://calitreview.com/563#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:02:04 +0000 Jascha Kessler http://calitreview.com/topics/religion/563/ per se to legislate for that cowran, tim'rous beastie, mankind. Granted, in our tradition we have Moses to thank for their vocation.]]> http://calitreview.com/563/feed 2 http://calitreview.com/300 http://calitreview.com/300#comments Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:38:45 +0000 John R. Guthrie http://calitreview.com/2008/01/02/the-common-secret-by-susan-wicklund/ http://calitreview.com/300/feed 2 http://calitreview.com/267 http://calitreview.com/267#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:40:36 +0000 Paul Comstock http://calitreview.com/2007/10/09/hanna-rosin-discusses-gods-harvard/ http://calitreview.com/267/feed 6 http://calitreview.com/260 http://calitreview.com/260#comments Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:45:52 +0000 Paul Comstock http://calitreview.com/2007/09/24/michael-behe-on-the-edge-of-evolution/ http://calitreview.com/260/feed 263 http://calitreview.com/245 http://calitreview.com/245#comments Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:09:51 +0000 Paul Comstock http://calitreview.com/2007/08/01/jeffrey-j-kripal-author-of-esalen/ http://calitreview.com/245/feed 2 http://calitreview.com/215 http://calitreview.com/215#comments Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:48:51 +0000 Wiliam Dalrymple http://calitreview.com//2007/06/12/believers-and-infidels/ http://calitreview.com/215/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/211 http://calitreview.com/211#comments Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:34:42 +0000 Julie Ellam http://calitreview.com//2007/06/11/be-near-me-by-andrew-o%e2%80%99hagan/ http://calitreview.com/211/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/204 http://calitreview.com/204#comments Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:19:33 +0000 Robert C. Cheeks http://calitreview.com//2007/06/10/flannery-oconnor-and-the-christ-haunted-south-by-ralph-wood/ http://calitreview.com/204/feed 2 http://calitreview.com/184 http://calitreview.com/184#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:58:21 +0000 Paul Blairon http://calitreview.com//non-fiction-reviews/what-the-buddha-taught-by-walpola-rahula/ http://calitreview.com/184/feed 5 http://calitreview.com/161 http://calitreview.com/161#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:36:22 +0000 Robert C. Cheeks http://calitreview.com//non-fiction-reviews/red-by-ted-dekker/ http://calitreview.com/161/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/115 http://calitreview.com/115#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:29:39 +0000 Robert C. Cheeks http://calitreview.com//non-fiction-reviews/democracy-and-populism-fear-and-hatred-by-john-lukacs/ http://calitreview.com/115/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/81 http://calitreview.com/81#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:22:00 +0000 Paul Comstock http://calitreview.com//interviews/an-interview-with-biographer-ann-seaman/ http://calitreview.com/81/feed 32