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November 23-29,1997 Issue 
A sampling of capsule reviews of movies from the U.S. Catholic Conference (USCC) Office for Film and Broadcasting:
Beaumarchais, The Scoundrel
(New Yorker)
Elaborate historical romp recounts the romantic and political exploits of the rakish 18th-century playwright (Fabrice Luchini) who, in addition... READ MORE
Beelzebub Takes Manhattan
BY John Prizer In a slam on the legal profession, The Devil's Advocate opts for entertainment over enlightenment
November 23-29,1997 Issue
LAWYERS AREN'T very popular these days, and defense attorneys who get the guilty acquitted are considered the lowest of the breed. The Devil's Advocate, based on a novel by Andrew Niederman, exploits these negative stereotypes by making the “evil one” the senior partner of a prestigious Manhattan... READ MORE
A Sampler of the Flicks Now Playing
October 12-18, 1997 Issue
A sampling of capsule reviews of movies from the U.S. Catholic Conference (USCC) Office for Film and Broadcasting:
Aaron's Magic Village (Avalanche)
Animated version of Isaac Bashevis Singer's stories about a Jewish village in Poland that becomes threatened by a wicked sorcerer's Golem until an... READ MORE
Priesthood Documentary Set to Air
October 12-18, 1997 Issue
WASHINGTON—It's Ash Wednesday in Baltimore's Federal Hill neighborhood, and Father Mitch Rozanski, pastor of Holy Cross Parish, struggles up the five flights of stairs to the top of his church steeple.
The bells of the 150-year-old church tower need to be fixed. Earlier in the day, Father Rozanski... READ MORE
Crooked Cops Find Redemption in the City of Angels
BY John Prizer
October 12-18, 1997 Issue
IN THE POPULAR imagination Los Angeles has long been the city of the American Dream—a land of openness and opportunity where people can reinvent themselves and realize their highest economic and spiritual potential. The guardians of this earthly paradise, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD),... READ MORE
Dorothy Day Hits the Big Screen in ‘Entertaining Angels’
BY David Finnigan
September 22, 1996 Issue
AFTER SIX YEARS of prayer and hard work, Paulist Father Ellwood “Bud” Kieser, is bringing his 110-minute cinematic vision of the life of Catholic Worker Founder Dorothy Day to the big screen. But he's going it alone, without the hype and fanfare that accompany most of Hollywood's releases.
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Catholic-Funded ‘Spitfire Grill’ Finds Success Despite Skepticism
BY Bill Murray
September 22, 1996 Issue
A FILM FINANCED by a Catholic group has earned at least $10 million. But respect is hard to come by in Hollywood and in the mainstream media, which has expressed concern about a religious group funding movies.
The Sacred Heart League, a charitable organization run by the Sacred Heart Fathers in... READ MORE
It’s Hard to Swallow the Chief Executive as Super Hero
BY John Prizer
August 24-30, 1997 Issue
AMERICA HAS become a media-fueled celebrity culture in which the fact of fame is more important than whatever a person may have done to deserve all the attention. The result is, among other things, a blurring of the distinctions between mass entertainment and political achievement. To many people,... READ MORE
Peel Away the Hollywood Veneer and Donnie Brasco Reveals Honest Drama
BY John Prizer
April 06, 1997 Issue
FILMGOERS AROUND THE world have had a long-standing romance with the American Mafia. Beginning with Howard Hawks's 1932 classic, Scarface, through the trilogies of Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Parts I-III) and Martin Scorsese (Mean Streets, GoodFellas and Casino), audiences have identified... READ MORE
This Year, Truths About Human Condition May Take All
BY John Prizer
March 23-29, 1997 Issue
THIS YEAR'S ACADEMY AWARDS are being touted as a potential breakthrough for independent filmmakers, those hardy souls who finance and produce their movies outside the studio system. Of the 163 feature films churned out by the Hollywood majors last year, only one (Jerry Maguire) is considered good... READ MORE
Videos on Release
BY Loretta Seyer
February 21-27, 1999 Issue
Into Thin Air: Death on Everest
This film is based on Into Thin Air, journalist Jon Krakauer's non-fiction best seller that recounted a 1996 disaster on Mount Everest. Krakauer had been assigned by Outside magazine to accompany a party of climbers in an assault on Everest and chronicle his... READ MORE
Dracula with a Twist
BY John Prizer
February 21-27, 1999 Issue
Nowadays when most people think of horror films, gorefests like Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer come to mind. It's difficult to remember the genre hasn't always been synonymous with excessive blood and gore.
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horrors, is one of the great classics of the silent... READ MORE
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