Surprisingly Spiritual Films: Bad Lieutenant By Simon Augustine Abel Ferrara is the kind of director who may be the last person you would expect to make a serious-minded, even devout, Christian film. Ferrara, like fellow filmmaker Martin Scorsese, built his career with an oeuvre of gritty New York films centered on characters and lives that [...]
Surprisingly Spiritual Films: Elite Squad By Simon Augustine “When you pass through, no one can pin you down, no one can call you back.” – Yung-An In Rio de Janiero, the ghettos are ruled by two things: stunning poverty, and drug lords who offer potential escape from a pervasive life of want. These criminal bosses [...]