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Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:40:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en God's Silence Series: no. 4. When Bess married Jan, it united an outsider and an insider, an oilworker and a member of a strict religious community. Their marriage was a happy one: sensual, fun, passionate. All that ended when Jan returned to his oil platform and Bess was left alone. ... http://stevebrownetc.com/podcasts/watching-theology/wt0306-breaking-the-waves-1996/ God's Silence Series: no. 3. [NOTE: Explicit Content] Sometimes God is silent. Sometimes he's shut out of the conversation. In Martin Scorsese's breakthrough film Mean Streets, Charlie is trying to find his own way to stay out of Hell. He is the saint of Little Italy, just not the ... http://stevebrownetc.com/podcasts/watching-theology/wt0305-mean-streets-1973/ God's Silence Series: no. 2. In part two of the "God's Silence" series, Watching Theology considers the profound link between ethics and God's existence. If God exists, He must care, and if God cares, He must punish. So if Martin Landau were to, say, kill Anjelica Huston, you might expect ... http://stevebrownetc.com/podcasts/watching-theology/wt0304-crimes-and-misdemeanors-1989/ God's Silence Series: no. 1. Ingmar Bergman's films have become synonymous with existential terror. In 1962's Winter Light, Bergman explores what could be a typical Sunday for a struggling pastor, except that this pastor may not believe in God. Winter Light is the first episode in a 5 part series ... http://stevebrownetc.com/podcasts/watching-theology/wt0303-winter-light-1962/ It's a tale as old as time. On this episode, WT turns it's careful gaze to the waters of the Amazon, watching Jack Arnold's Universal Monster classic Creature from the Black Lagoon. In those dark waters, we find an evolutionary story of Beauty and the Beast and a few bizarre ... http://stevebrownetc.com/podcasts/watching-theology/wt0302-creature-from-the-black-lagoon-1954/ In this first episode of season 3, Joe spends a few minutes with Clark Gregg's Choke. This latest adaptation of a Chuck Palahniuk novel is far removed from the David Fincher Fight Club adaptation, but a few threads connect them. Of course there is a fascination with vulgarity and the ... http://stevebrownetc.com/podcasts/watching-theology/wt0301-choke-2008/ Not that you don't have something better to do with your money - like giving to Key Life. But for those listeners who can't get enough movie stuff, the fine folks at Watching Theology offer a collection of film readings. Watching is a mixed collection of articles, papers, reviews and ... http://stevebrownetc.com/podcasts/watching-theology/watching-reading-reading-watching/ [NOTE: Explicit Content] If all you want for Christmas is Muppets and Miley Cyrus, avoid this show. But, if you don't mind a little sex, violence, and f-words in your eggnog, we have the gift that keeps giving. On this special (and rare) edition of Watching Theology, we turn our ... http://stevebrownetc.com/podcasts/watching-theology/wt0210-a-watching-christmas/ God, evolution, the rise of a living machine, theology, humanism and a Vulcan named Spock. It's all in Robert Wise's adaptation of Star Trek mythology. On this episode, Joe does a solo take on what might be the real meaning of the players and ideas behind the first feature of ... http://stevebrownetc.com/podcasts/watching-theology/wt0209-star-trek-the-motion-picture-1979/ Nothing says caring like a close community of Christian believers, compassionate co-workers and a life-like "love doll." Lars and the Real Girl is the story of a lonely man who becomes so gripped by the contrary forces of fear and love that he suffers from the delusion of believing that ... http://stevebrownetc.com/podcasts/watching-theology/wt0208-lars-and-the-real-girl-2007/ Yes, the podcast still exists. And it will return soon. Here's the quick rundown on some adjusted program dates (and listen to the audio for a preview of some other upcoming shows): Lars and the Real Girl (July 11), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (July 18), Rear Window (Aug 1) http://stevebrownetc.com/podcasts/watching-theology/wt-update/ With the long awaited fourth movie in the Indiana Jones series hitting theaters, it seemed to be a good time to revisit our childhood and our collective social consciousness with an adventure. On this episode we go back to the beginning with Harrison Ford, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg to ... http://stevebrownetc.com/podcasts/watching-theology/wt0207-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-1981/ Considered by numerous critics and film organizations to be the greatest film ever made, Citizen Kane is large in legend even without our brief examination of the movie. But even Orson Welles – as Charles Foster Kane and director – is not beyond our arrogant ramblings about life and meaning. ... http://stevebrownetc.com/podcasts/watching-theology/wt0206-citizen-kane-1941/ [NOTE: Explicit Content] Whether or not there's a huge government/corporate conspiracy to take over every liberty – to enslave and control us – there's always time to think about reality. Fortunately, in Philip K. Dick's and Richard Linklater's vision of the near future, we're provided with ample examples of how ... http://stevebrownetc.com/podcasts/watching-theology/wt0205-a-scanner-darkly-2006/ Somewhere on an island outside Scotland, Christopher Lee has built the perfect neo-Pagan civilization. There you will find fertility rites, folk music and a frolicking Britt Ekland (and her body double). You will also witness a clash of civilizations that hasn't been seen since St. Patrick brought Christianity to the ... http://stevebrownetc.com/podcasts/watching-theology/wt0204-the-wicker-man-1973/