All Episodes
Criteria: The Catholic Film Podcast — 144 episodes
The Creator Spirit and the Soul of Art (conference talk)
Nolan's Odyssey: not subversive, not that deep
A child at war: Ivan's Childhood (1962)
30 Years of the Vatican Film List – Catholic Cinema's Past and Future
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Speaking in L.A.
30 Years of the Vatican Film List – Catholic Cinema's Past and Future
Is Brideshead Revisited (1981) the perfect book-to-screen adaptation?
Bishop Erik Varden on cinema
New Lives of the Popes podcast
Into Great Silence (2005) w/ Manny Marquez
Bing Crosby plays a priest in Going My Way and The Bells of St. Mary's
Adoption drama: Secrets & Lies (1996)
Revisiting Malick's A Hidden Life (2019)
Triumph of the Heart director faced glorious trials making great Catholic art - w/ Anthony D'Ambrosio
US army chaplain meets Italian monks in Paisan (1946)
He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
Triumph of the Heart is a film worthy of its subject, St. Maximilian Kolbe
A hard world for little things: The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Hitchcock's I Confess and the world's failure to understand priesthood
The Ritual portrays exorcism accurately, but is stuck in genre cliches
Fragmented sexuality in Malick's To the Wonder, Knight of Cups, & Song to Song
Crucifixion darkness: Barabbas (1961)
A holy fool: The Island (2006)
Terrence Malick and the Knights of Columbus: Voyage of Time (2016)
The Marx Brothers w/ James Matthew Wilson
"I am a human being": The Elephant Man (1980), w/ Andrew Petiprin
In a Lonely Place (1950)
New birth for humanity: Children of Men (2006) w/ Timothy Reckart
Job and St. Augustine in one film: The Tree of Life (2011)
Freedom in vocation: The Sound of Music (1965)
The Chosen, Season 4: Lectio Divina or Fan Fiction?
Church Teaching on Cinema: Vatican II and Beyond
A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
Pope Pius XII on The Ideal Film, Pt. 2 (Church Teaching on Cinema)
Pope Pius XII on The Ideal Film, Pt. 1 (Church Teaching on Cinema)
Church Teaching on Cinema: Pope Pius XI
Wildcat does justice to Flannery O'Connor's faith (w/ Joshua Hren)
Malick's humble camera: The New World (2005)
A study of pastoral prudence: Léon Morin, Priest (1961)
Studies of ambition: All About Eve, The Bad and the Beautiful
Metaphysical Malick: The Thin Red Line (1998)
Kiarostami: blurring the line between documentary and fiction
Godzilla Minus One, a profound appeal for a culture of life
Generational wounds in Tokyo Story (1953)
Popcorn with the Pope: Word on Fire on the Vatican Film List
Introduction to Terrence Malick: Badlands and Days of Heaven
Review: Killers of the Flower Moon
Wise Blood (1979): John Huston's film adaptation w/ Katy Carl
Catholic India's 'Master of Chaos'
The Age of Innocence (1993)
When "engaging the culture" means loving mediocrity
Empires of death: Apocalypto (2006)
Asteroid City: delightful, decadent, or despairing?
Caviezel's Sound of Freedom: a thriller about fighting child trafficking
We watched the WHOLE Vatican Film List
Sacrilege against Mary in the new Padre Pio film
When artists feel lonely in the Church (Livestream)
The last great silent epic: Napoleon (1927)
Livestream announcement
The Miracle Maker (1999) w/ Timothy Reckart
Rome, Open City (1945) w/ Elizabeth Lev
Can a Holocaust film offer hope? Schindler's List (1993)
Catholic review of The Chosen, Season 3
Ordet (The Word) (1955)
The Leopard (1963)
The Sacrifice (1986)
Theology of the body shop - Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Whisper of the generations: The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Fame kills: Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Stripping St. Francis: Francesco (1989)
The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)
Two very different Oz movies
Why is The Rings of Power Boring?
Michelangelo movies w/ Elizabeth Lev
Wormtongue in Times Square: Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Poverty and trust: Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Righteous among the nations: Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)
Film noir: Out of the Past (1947)
Men explain Little Women (1933) to you?
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Hail, Caesar! (2016) w/ T. C. Merrill
Natural piety: The Burmese Harp (1956)
Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times (1936)
Review: Father Stu
The comedies of Preston Sturges w/ Anthony Esolen
Directing Man of God - Yelena Popovic
Holy fool: La Strada (1954) w/ James Matthew Wilson
Review: Man of God
Anti-clerical cinema: Nazarin (1959)
Screwball comedy and The Awful Truth (1937)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Review: Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth
"Everything is yours" - Dekalog: Ten (1988)
True and False Conversion: My Night at Maud's (1969) w/ Matthew Schmitz
The amateur spirit: Chariots of Fire (1981)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Love and Sex Separated—Dekalog: Nine (1988)
Dune: Part One with Fr. Brendon Laroche
Hollywood's infamous birth: Birth of a Nation and Intolerance (1915-16)
The Chosen, Season 2: characters and controversies
Mental Preservation - Dekalog: Eight (1988)
Drama of Holiness: Monsieur Vincent (1947) w/ Steven Greydanus
Therese (1986), and What Makes a Good Saint Movie?
The Mission (1986)
Theft of Motherhood - Dekalog: Seven (1988)
Review: A Quiet Place Part II
Interview with Lourdes documentary writer Sixtine Leon-Dufour
New Lourdes documentary shows a miracle of mercy
BONUS: Walker Percy's Moviegoer w/ Nathan Douglas
Patron Saint of Boomers: Gandhi (1982)
Lust kills art: 8 1/2 (1963) w/ Katy Carl
Pope John Paul II (2005)
A Short Film About Love - Dekalog: Six (1988)
Crucifixion of a Parish Priest: Calvary (2014)
Pasolini's Gospel According to Matthew (1964) w/ Heather King
The Chosen, an Education in Meditation
Sanctification of an Icon Painter: Andrei Rublev (1966)
Wild Courtesy: Dersu Uzala (1975)
Ben-Hur (1959) w/ Elizabeth Lev
Literalism vs. Reality in The Mandalorian
A Short Film About Killing - Dekalog: Five (1988)
Mel Gibson's Santa dispenses justice in Fatman (review)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) w/ Patrick Coffin
The Machine-Whore of Babylon: Metropolis (1927)
The Abdication of Fatherhood - Dekalog: Four (1988)
Fantasia (1940) w/ animator Tim Reckart
Reverence and the Occult: Nosferatu (1922/1979)
The Life You Save - Dekalog: Three (1988)
Are heist films moral? The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
Vie et Passion du Christ (1903)
The Illusion of Choice - Dekalog: Two (1988)
Fatima (2020)
A Prison Is For Escaping: La Grande Illusion (1937)
Wild Strawberries (1957) w/ James Matthew Wilson
Those Who Make Them Are Like Them - Dekalog: One (1988)
Gone with the Wind (1939) w/ Stephen M. Klugewicz
Robert Bolt's Man for All Seasons: Christian saint or "hero of selfhood"?
From Stage to Screen: A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Community on the Margins: Stagecoach (1939) w/ Anthony Esolen
Robots Don't Matter! 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
An Artist Is Never Poor: Babette's Feast (1987)
Introducing Criteria: The Catholic Film Podcast