This comes from Image Update:
"Just in time for this years Oscar awards ceremony, Image has released its 2010 Arts & Faith Top 100 Films list.
Showcasing top films and directors from around the world and spanning cinematic history from a 1927 silent film to films currently in theaters (the Coen Brothers Oscar-nominated A Serious Man), the list is the culmination of years of discussion and debate among the ArtsandFaith.com online community.
Last published in 2008, previous incarnations of the Arts & Faith Top 100 List have been featured in the LA Times, VH1, Christianity Today, and on Jeffrey Wells Hollywood Elsewhere blog. The list has been called an incomparable resource for anyone interested in exploring transcendent themes in the movies.
In his blog post accompanying the Arts & Faith Top 100 Films list, film critic Jeffrey Overstreet (Through a Screen Darkly) defines the list as being characterized both by artistic excellence and a serious wrestling with questions that at the root might be called religious or spiritual.
Overstreet notes that this list will come as a surprise to those who think they know what a religious community might select. Films like The Ten Commandments and The Passion of the Christ did not even make the list, while a host of foreign-language films with subtitles were selected.
Many Christians, Overstreet explains, have become so concerned about the usefulness of art as a tool of ministry and evangelism, theyve forgottenor never known in the first placewhat art really is, and how it works. We hope this list will remind you of the powerful and multifarious ways that film can convey matters of faith, and suspect you may find a new personal favorite among the 100 final selections.
Click here to view the list, here to visit or join the Arts & Faith community, and here to read Jeffrey Overstreets Good Letters blog on the significance of this list."
Which films would be in your Top 10? See Philip Ritchie's Reel Issues post for some other useful film-related resources from the Bible Society.
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