2014 Arts & Faith Ecumenical Jury Awards — Winners
The Ecumenical Jury nominated over sixty films for consideration and then faced the daunting task of winnowing down that rich field to the ten films we felt wire most worthy of recognition.
Category: Top 10s and Other Lists
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2014 Top Ten
What made this particular list difficult to shape was that I had five films I was enthusiastic about and another twenty hovering on the plateau just below them.
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2014 Arts & Faith Ecumenical Jury Awards–Winners To Be Announced December 22
The jury seeks to recognize quality films (regardless of genre) that have challenged, moved, enlightened, or entertained us and to draw the attention of Christian audiences to films it thinks have the potential to do the same for them.
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Before Midnight (Linklater, 2013)
The fatalism imbuing the characters and the film is certainly representative of what many couples feel in middle-age, a period in which there are as many or more choices behind them as awaiting them and where the quality of a relationship is influenced as much by the fruit of past decisions as the pleasurable contemplation of future ones.
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Wings (Wellman, 1927)
William Wellman never won an Academy Award for directing.
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2013 Top Ten
The past twelve months have been filled with great times at the movies for me. For the first time since I started making such lists, I had choices to make not only at the top but also at the bottom.
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2012 NCFCA Awards
The North Carolina Film Critics Association (NCFCA) will announce its awards for the best films and performances of 2012 next week.
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2012 Top Ten
It was pretty apparent for me early on that 2012 was a banner year for documentaries.
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Argo (Affleck, 2012)
I approached Argo with a certain amount of trepidation since it depicted events very close to my own life.
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2011 Top 10
At various points in the year, I considered five different films for the top slot. Normally that might mean that there was no runaway film that I really fell in love with, but the opposite was true. The difficulty in picking just one was reflective of the different ways in which I adored each of these films.