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Through a Screen Darkly

Erik Guzman May 11th, 2007

Join us as we talk with author and film reviewer Jeffrey Overstreet about his new book Through a Screen Darkly: Looking Closer at Beauty, Truth and Evil in the Movies.

Overstreet hopes to, "help moviegoers develop the ability to explore the stories of popular culture, highlighting what is excellent and identifying what is flawed or indulgent, in order to participate in the cultural dialogue about art and the reality it reflects."

In the book, Overstreet writes about how filmmakers like Martin Scorsese, Wim Wenders, and Krzysztof Kieslowski capture reflections of God in their work, whether they know it or not. On today's show, since we don't know much about those guys, maybe we can get him to talk about Star Wars.

Jeffrey Overstreet has a decade of experience as a film reviewer and columnist for his popular website lookingcloser.org. He is a weekly columnist and critic at Christianity Today's movie website, and his perspectives are regularly published in Risen and Seattle Pacific University's Response magazine.

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4 Responses to “Through a Screen Darkly”

I've survived the "Steve Brown, Etc." show! « May 15th, 2007

[...] okay. It's right here. Just try and believe your ears. There's no radio show quite like this on Christian radio in my [...]

Sharon September 13th, 2007

Stimulating show–thanks! I wonder what you all thought of the film "The Sixth Sense." I ask because as I listen to your guest Jeffrey Overstreet, assenting "yeah, yeah, preach it, man" I find myself coming up with the one movie that I really abominate, even as I admire the brilliance of the direction: Are there just movies that are deep fat fried to some of us but not to others? Or is there something in my aversion to this, the sense of uncleanness surrounding the idea of the walking dead? What do you think?

Steve Brown Etc. » Blog Archive » The Golden Compass - Jeffery Overstreet December 12th, 2007

[...] one of the options below to listen to the interview. Then come back and click here to listen to Jeffery Overstreet's appearance on [...]

Through an Interview Darkly | WordVixen.com December 9th, 2009

[...] that I heard is with my favorite irreverent Reverend (former reverend, actually) Steve Brown. He interviewed Jeffrey Overstreet for his (J.O.'s) first book, Through A Screen Darkly- which is a non-fic about movies. See, his day job is being a movie critic. Fiction is what he does [...]

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