Jun
28
8: The Mormon Proposition is described as being “an indictment of the Mormon Church’s historic involvement in the promotion & passage of California’s Proposition 8”. Directors Reed Cowan and Steven Greenstreet (This Divided State) – both former Mormons — have spent the year and a half since the November 2008 election researching and compiling this …
Jun
24
This is a review written last July for Toward an LDS Cinema. Over time, I’ll be re-posting my old reviews on this site, since some people have expressed interest. The second part of this article focuses on the Mormon aspects of the film’s DVD release.
Jun
21
In October of 2004 – two weeks before the hotly contested presidential election — Utah Valley State College in Orem, Utah invited filmmaker (and “liberal firebrand”) Michael Moore to speak on campus.
Jun
17
The closing sentence of the thirteenth Article of Faith provides a favorable frame of reference for both the production and the consumption of cinema, as well as all the arts. It reads “If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.” On the production side, this sentence …
Jun
16
Let’s take a quick glance at box office figures for LDS films released since 2000: (films are arranged chronologically by release date — box office figures are in thousands)
Jun
14
Welcome to LDS Cinema Online — a blog devoted to news, reviews, and analysis of cinema from an LDS perspective. We are fortunate to be among the sister sites of “A Motley Vision” — dedicated to the discussion of arts and culture within the LDS community since 2004.
Jun
11
Saying Richard Dutcher is the best filmmaker in the realm of LDS Cinema today is (a) true, and (b) not really much of a compliment, given the competition. (Like saying Steve Young is the best quarterback ever to come from Greenwich, Connecticut)
Jun
08
In 1995, prospective filmmaker (and returned LDS missionary) Richard Dutcher was reading the movie listings in the local newspapers, and noticed that in addition to the Hollywood wide-releases, there were also “black” films, “Indian” films, “gay/lesbian” films, and many other niche films each catering to a smaller, specialized market. Why, he asked himself, couldn’t there …
Jun
07
In the indie film scene — Sundance Film Festival fare, for example — “edginess” is king. A male character off the street in indie movies is fifty times more likely to be a drug dealer or working for the mob than in real life. Female characters are fifty times more likely to be lesbians. If …
Jun
07
The Errand of Angels (official site, IMDB) was originally titled Diary of a Sister Missionary and is, in fact, just that: a personal journal brought to life of Sister Taylor, an LDS sister serving a mission in Austria. It is based largely on the experiences of writer Heidi Johnson who herself served in Austria in …
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