Wordless Wednesday - March 5, 2025

 

                                  

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2025 Nordlys Film and Arts Festival

This weekend we attended the Nordlys Film and Arts Festival. Nordlys is Norwegian for Northern Lights. Visiting the festival this year was Montreal actor, Felix-Antione Duval, the main character in Shepherds. After the film, Duval participated in a Q & A. Altogether there were 9 films. The Last Repair Shop was a U.S. film about a L.A. music repair shop, which provides free repairs for schoolchildren’s musical instruments, telling the stories of some of their staff. The Teachers’ Lounge was a thought-provoking German film focussing on several contemporary themes/controveries in educational institutions. Wicked LittleLetters was a British film with way too much coarse language, as the title suggests. Blackberry tells the story of the once-popular Blackberry mobile phone—too much coarse language in this film too, as well as abusive CEOs. I won’t comment on the other films except my favourite. Readers can check out the festival website at: nordlysfestival.com. 

My favourite was a 44 minute documentary called Magic Hours, about movie theatres in small towns of Alberta having to close, and/or struggling to keep their doors open. It was by Calgary filmmaker, Levi Holwell, who also attended the festival and participated in a Q & A. Here is the trailer: https://youtu.be/msAzB_4-Gyw

The Weekend in Black & White: January 10, 2025

 

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Wordless Wednesday - December 11, 2024

 

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Gustavo Gutiérrez dies aged 96

The Rev. Dr. Gustavo Gutiérrez is regarded as the father of liberation theology. I remember Gutiérrez giving a lecture series which I attended many years ago. He was wise, insightful, and had a sense of humour. He reminded me a lot of the president of our seminary, the Rev. Dr. William Hordern, like Hordern he had a strong theology of grace. For more on Gutiérrez, read the following tribute here.

The Weekend in Black & White: October 4, 2024

 

An historic building, which has, over the years been opened and closed as a restaurant.

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Wordless Wednesday - September 4, 2024

 

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