- Hotel Rwanda – I felt deep sorrow, for this was the time we lived as neighbors to Rwanda . . . we hosted a “Hutu” for seven years after that.
- Most – a powerful Czech/Pol short film about the love of father and son.
- The Constant gardener – set in Kenya, about corruption in the pharmeceutical industry and testing of innocent AIDS victims that does them harm, and one woman’s quest and finally one man’s sacrifice to stop it.
- Chocolat – characters rich as the chocolate that Juliette Binochet doles out in the town during lent.
- Babette’s feast – beauty and sacrifice in the heart of a woman who shows gratitude by cooking up a feast for the entire village.
- The mission – a classic that will always stick in my consciousness.
- End of the spear – one of the best “missions” stories of the twentieth century, but the screenplay was not well written and executed, but still worth seeing (not saying I could do better, but it just wasn’t the quality of story that it could have been).
- Pride and prejudice – best dialogue in a movie I’ve seen in quite some time.
- The gods must be crazy – hilariously eye-opening and world view shifting.
- What’s one of yours to fill in the 10th?
9 meaningful foreign films
Greg Taylor
My wife, Jill, and I have three children: Ashley, Anna, and Jacob. We live in Broken Arrow and I preach for The Journey: a New Generation Church of Christ in Tulsa (www.thejourneychurch.faith). I have a B.A. in Journalism and an M.Div. from Harding School of Theology in Memphis, Tennessee. Before coming to Tulsa, we lived in Nashville, Tennessee four years, where I worked with The Zoe Group and Wineskins Magazine. From 1994-2001 we lived in Jinja, Uganda, where we worked with a church planting team, an experience that forever changed our lives. With Randy Harris, I co-authored Living Jesus: Doing What Jesus Says in the Sermon on the Mount and you can learn about other books I've written at my web site, www.gregtaylor.org. My most recent book co-authored with Randy is Daring Faith: Meeting Jesus in the Book of John.
Life is Beautiful?
Greg,
I just discovered your blog and then discovered you have a new one. You may not remember me but we had a brief visit at Tulsa and we have a joint venture with John Mark in common (I coauthored Kingdom Come). I really enjoy the work with Wineskins. I invite you to stop by my blog at http://stoned-campbelldisciple.blogspot.com/
Look forward to hearing from you. I will be back.
Shalom,
Bobby Valentine
Milwaukee, WI
Amelie.
Keith–never heard of Amelie but will check it out! Thanks.
Bobby–Of course I remember you and I have read chapters from Kingdom Come before press when John Mark sent them. I think it’s a very valuable book in the ancient-future category, helping us recover some lost doctrines and practices of those who’ve gone before.
JAT–Yes, I love Life is Beautiful but haven’t seen it in long time. Will have rent sometime and see again. Good thing about my memory is that I forget plots and get surprised all over again 🙂