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25/01/2024

Timothy Lawrence on the theme of brotherhood in the AVATAR films:
https://filmfisher.com/fraternal-rivalry-and-brotherly-love-in-avatar/

18/07/2023

"Lynch’s body of work is thickly laden with the sense that the visible, physical, 'normal' world is mysteriously pervaded by unseen, spiritual realities – and it has this in common with the fiction of Charles Williams (such as the novel 'Descent Into Hell'), the most idiosyncratic member of the Inklings. Williams’ flair for mystical esoterica, a far cry from the more conventional fantasies of his peers Lewis and Tolkien, is not his only point of contact with Lynch. Though one is working in an overtly Christian context and the other is not, both artists share a central preoccupation with the way romance – as filtered through the courtly love tradition with which Dante wrestled – can be a path to heaven or hell, salvation or damnation."

Timothy Lawrence on Dante, Charles Williams, and David Lynch:

“The Hardy Boys go to hell.” That, reportedly, is how David Lynch summed up Blue Velvet, the esteemed 1986 film that lifted him to a new...

27/05/2023

"At times, the desert seems like a blank canvas on which Lawrence can paint his legend. At others, its expansive emptiness emphasizes his smallness and the vaporous nature of his ambitions. The film continually returns to these two intertwined enigmas: the nature of the desert and Lawrence’s place in it."

Timothy Lawrence on one of the greatest films of all time:

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“And though greatly he failed, more greatly he dared.” Lawrence of Arabia begins at the end of its hero’s life. It is not a heroic end.

04/05/2023

“So long as Kino is unwilling to die, he is willing to endure the endless toil of Imperial slavery. If he is to be free, he must be willing to die; he must come to say, with Cassian, ‘I’d rather die trying to take them down than die giving them what they want.’ Though Kino would like to believe otherwise, death is a given. The question is not whether or not he will die, but whether or not he will die well.”

This Star Wars Day, Timothy Lawrence dives into the best episode of “Andor”:
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Star Wars is many things, but first and foremost, it is – at least to my mind – a myth. As a myth, Star Wars operates by a poetic, Jungian l

11/02/2023

What does water mean in the Bible? What does it mean in the films of James Cameron? Is there any crossover?

Timothy Lawrence explores the evolution of James Cameron's water movies (THE ABYSS, TITANIC, and AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER) through an unlikely lens:

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Although C.S. Lewis admired and enjoyed the science fiction of H.G. Wells and his ilk, he took issue with their conception of space as...

04/02/2023

"Martin Scorsese, cinema’s most famously tortured lapsed Catholic, is always making movies about the three enemies of the soul: the world, the flesh, and the devil. The flesh and the devil are perennially popular in Hollywood – consider the romance and horror genres, respectively – but two of Scorsese’s greatest films offer unusual insight into the unique temptations posed by the world."

Timothy Lawrence on "The Age of Innocence," "The Irishman," and C.S. Lewis' essay, "The Inner Ring":

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Martin Scorsese, cinema’s most famously tortured lapsed Catholic, is always making movies about the three enemies of the soul...

01/02/2023

Have a look at Timothy's review of Nope!

Film Review by Timothy Lawrence

30/01/2023

https://filmfisher.com/title-item/no-time-to-die-2/
Enjoy this review by Timothy Lawrence...

15/07/2022

"Cold this morning, Captain."

17/05/2022

Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" – the greatest film ever made on the subject of lust and it's rated PG.

29/04/2022

Over the years, Timothy Lawrence has written a great deal about Star Wars for FilmFisher. Recently, he presented many of those thoughts (along with some new ones) in a lecture for Emmaus Classical Academy, entitled "The Skywalker Soul: The Moral Philosophy of Star Wars." You can watch the lecture on YouTube now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=7ZAJsm4BPvk&feature=youtu.be

Skywalker Soul: The Moral Philosophy of Star Warsby Timothy LawrenceMarch 31st 2022