In a pure coincidence, I followed Three Christs with another movie about who, really, is the delusional person. […]
Category Archive: Tim Winterstein
It is the grandest of delusions: to believe oneself to be Jesus Christ. In the middle of the […]
In the days of high dudgeon prior to a presidential election, with numbers and claims and promises flowing […]
You know how people’s favorite albums depend in large part on when the person encountered the band or […]
I noticed it in Sleepless in Seattle: an incredible Baltimore church (Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church) that […]
One of the enduring difficulties in depicting on the screen the internal life of a character is that […]
My to-watch list on Letterboxd is currently sitting at 140 films. I have a strange relationship with films […]
If I can’t listen to Flannery O’Connor herself reading her stories, all I ask is for an audio version of Mary Steenburgen reading her stories, as she does throughout the new documentary Flannery (2019; playing now in virtual theaters).
The Great War changed irretrievably the expected trajectory of the West. It seemed possible at one time to […]
“Hero/it’s a nice-boy notion that the real world’s gonna destroy./You know/it’s a Marvel-comic-book, Saturday-matinee fairytale, boy. … When they ain’t as big as life/When they ditch their second wife/ Where’s the boy to go?” (Steve Taylor, “Hero”).