Tag: Music

  • Traverse City Film Festival – Day Five

    Traverse City Film Festival – Day Five

    All good things must come to an end. After five jam-packed days, Ron is finished with the Traverse City Film Festival. Below is his final report and the links to the rest of his reviews. We hope you enjoyed Ron’s coverage of the festival! We’re already looking forward to next year… Day One Day Two…

  • Everybody Wants Some!!

    Everybody Wants Some!!

    Two years after Boyhood, Richard Linklater is back with Everybody Wants Some!! – a “spiritual sequel” to the 1993 classic Dazed and Confused. Linklater has always defied traditional approaches to storytelling. Instead of a plot and three acts, Linklater films are driven by music, characters, and authenticity. Tune in to this month’s podcast as we…

  • More Than Images: The Power of a Film’s Score

    More Than Images: The Power of a Film’s Score

    Prior to diving into this essay, I feel a need to quantify and qualify the topic. First, I am not a musical expert. My knowledge is limited to having played trumpet in grade school, and messing around with a bass guitar for most of the time period following the end of my trumpeting days. Also,…

  • Musicals and the Soundtrack of Faith

    Musicals and the Soundtrack of Faith

    It was Christmas Day 2014 and my daughter, Cadence, and I were settling into our seats in the theater. Just shy of three years old, her feet dangled above from the too-tall theater seat, excitedly swinging back and forth. “When will it start, Momma?” Her eyes wide with anticipation for her first in-theater movie. The…

  • Interview with Greg and Teia Batiansila

    Interview with Greg and Teia Batiansila

    At Cinema Faith, we’re not too fond of Christian movies. Truth flows naturally from good stories, but gets suffocated by an agenda. Sermons are different than stories – Christian filmmakers need to understand the distinction. Today, we’d like to present two that do. Meet Greg and Teia Batiansila, a father-daughter duo reversing the stigma of…

  • Straight Outta Compton

    Straight Outta Compton

    I should not be writing this review. I told myself I wasn’t going to write it. I told others I wasn’t going to write it. And yet, here I am – writing it. There are a number of things working against me. First off, I’m white. While the world was listening to a rap group…