More Than One Lesson

MISSIONARY POSITIONS (2005)
Written and Directed by: Bill Day
Starring: Craig Gross, Mike Foster

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In this episode, Tyler and Josh discuss John Swanbeck’s The Big Kahuna.

More Than One Lesson is going to Alpha Omega Con!  We’ll have our own exhibitor booth from which we’ll be able to reach out to potential listeners and other like-minded people of faith.  We are excited to have this opportunity, but there are some minor costs involved.  We want to represent the site as well as we can, which will involve:

• Sample CDs
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Tyler was recently a guest host on the Feeding My Faith podcast, talking about Matthew 25.

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JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961)
Directed by: Stanley Kramer
Written by: Abby Mann
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, Burt Lancaster

Is there anything more disturbing than when somebody tries to justify rape? Not that many people out there are doing that, but the fact that there are some men out there who blame it on the woman is both infuriating and just sad. One looks at this mindset and tries to figure out what exactly these people are thinking. How can they defend this? What is wrong with them?

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In this minisode, Tyler and Josh discuss John Madden’s Shakespeare in Love, winner of Best Picture of 1998.

In this minisode, Tyler and Josh discuss Sam Mendes’ American Beauty, the winner of Best Picture of 1999.

In this episode, Tyler and Josh discuss Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity, as well as Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited.

EPISODE BREAKDOWN
00:00:44- Intro, music, Comic-Con meetup
00:10:35- Gravity
00:39:06- The Darjeeling Limited
01:06:30- Episode wrap-up

In this minisode, Tyler and Josh discuss Ridley Scott’s Gladiator, winner of Best Picture for 2000.

Let’s all do ourselves a solid and pretend that it hasn’t been seven months since I wrote my last entry into my Top Ten Favorites, shall we?  Good.

I was forthcoming at the outset of this blog series that subjectivity, as is the case with any Top Ten list, would play a key role in its formation.  Despite the fact that this list is still in its infancy we’ve come to the entry in which, more so than any of the other films before or after, the immeasurable, personal factors – nostalgia, mood, time, place – play a significant role in the reverence I hold for it.

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