Macrina’s List: Wonderful movies for prayerful
reflection/discussion
Sorry
folks! Not necessarily feel-good movies
- A Far Off
Place
- As it is in Heaven
- Constantine’s
Sword (excellent documentary)
- Departures (Japanese film about honoring the dead)
- Dirt
(excellent documentary)
- Extremely
Loud and Incredibly Close
- First do no
harm
- Freedom
Writers
- Gifted Hands
- Guzaarish
- How to Cook
Your Life (documentary)
- Iron Jawed
Angels
- I’ve Loved
you so long
- I Am
- Lars and the
real live girl
- Peaceful
Warrior
- Monsieur
Lazhar
- Motorcycle Diaries
- My name is
Khan
- Of God’s and
Men
- Redwood
Forest
- Salmon Fishin in Yemen
- Sarah's Key
- Smoke Signals
- Temple Grandin
- The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas
- The Blue Butterfly
- The Pearl Divers
- The Secret Life of Bees
- The Secret Life of Words
- The Visitor
- The Soloist
- The Station Agent
- The First Grader
- The Last Station
- The Tree of Life [very symbolic]
- The Way
- Shaddarack
Speaking of Shadrack: A film that sees the complicated world issues of race, death and poverty through the eyes of a 10 year old. As MacDowell says, "I wouldn't call it an art film. It's just a beautiful little movie that's going to have to compete with the blockbusters pretty much by word of mouth. Hope it gets a big mouth.
--I don't think it got a big mouth at the theater but it got my mouth. Macrina