Religious Movies

# Religious Movies

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The Greatest Story Ever Told?

Movies pull emotional responses out of us. They play with our conscious and subconscious. They make us feel empathy, fear, and joy. They activate the spiritual part of our being. Like movies, our emotional responses to a source are equally essential to religion. As such, movies and religion play in a similar field. I admit that there are a lot of bad religious movies. These are usually done by Christian production companies that explicitly plan to push the messaging of the church to their audien

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Meditating with Andrei Rublev

Andrei Rublev is a 1966 Mosfilm movie directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. It was written by Tarkovsky and Andrei Konchalovsky. The movie stars Anatoly Solonitsyn in his feature debut. After one 1966 screening in Moscow, the film was discontinued until a censored version was released in 1971. The original, full-length version is now available. The movie is an accurate depiction of Russia during the medieval era. Its story is not ultracomplex. In fact, it’s simple but, perhaps, the difficulty as a Weste