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		<title>Godspell (Before viewing)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2012/godspell-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2012/godspell-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Musical]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

Playfully serious, musically excellent, and rich in spirit, Godspell romps through New York City exploring and embodying wisdom for life and relationships from the Bible&#8217;s Gospel According to Matthew. Set in 1973, Jesus and his disciples are played as a joyful, clowning theater troupe, relishing in each other&#8217;s company, creatively re-enacting

 Jesus&#8217; parables, making what [...] (released: 1973) ]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye Solo (Before viewing)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2011/good-bye-solo-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2011/good-bye-solo-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[City of the Angels Film Festival]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A momentary acquaintance is most times just that: momentary. The beauty in Goodbye Solo arises from a quick, sharp moment of insight leads one character, driven by his depth of concern for other people, to relentlessly pursue keeping the relationship alive.

 From a different angle and perspective, it explores a profound depth and sincerity of [...] (released: 2009) ]]></description>
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		<title>Away We Go (Before viewing)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2011/away-we-go-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2011/away-we-go-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[With light-hearted seriousness, Away We Go romps us through a young couple&#8217;s search for life. Or, actually, their search is for a place to live, but of course there&#8217;s always a larger thing going on. Burt and Verona&#8217;s relationship has its idiosyncrasies, 

 and perhaps because of that it shines all the more in contrast [...] (released: 2009) ]]></description>
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		<title>An Unfinished Life (Before viewing)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/unfinished-life-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/unfinished-life-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Drama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://piercedtotheheart.org/?p=1083</guid>

	
		<description><![CDATA[An Unfinished Life is rich with diversity of relational contexts and emotional perspectives. In its exploration of forgiveness and responsibility, one central conflict is echoed and reflected in multiple secondary conflicts, each developing and commenting on the other.

 There is a dominant and well-played metaphor that runs the length of the film, but beyond this [...] (released: 2005) ]]></description>
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		<title>Batman Begins (Before viewing)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/batman-begins-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2010/batman-begins-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Action]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Batman Begins is an superb example of what excellent screenwriting and directing can do for a familiar story. Batman can easily be (and has been) produced with simple action and black-and-white morality. Christopher Nolan

 (with the story and screenwriting collaboration of David Goyer), in Batman Begins, deeply explores the nature of mankind&#8217;s struggle with morality, [...] (released: 2005) ]]></description>
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		<title>Doubt (Before viewing)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2009/doubt-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2009/doubt-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Drama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://piercedtotheheart.org/?p=946</guid>

	
		<description><![CDATA[The simple title Doubt captures the film&#8217;s exploration well. The story deals with certainty and doubt around certain events, but the film evokes an exploration of doubt that runs deeper than the story. But, whether one engages at the story level or

 the deeper level, Doubt is a well-crafted, engaging tale. Doubt swirls in and [...] (released: 2008) ]]></description>
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		<title>Gran Torino (Before viewing)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2009/gran-torino-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2009/gran-torino-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Drama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One could say that Gran Torino explores racism, but really racism is almost a red herring in the film&#8217;s exploration of alienation, sacrifice, caring, gratitude, and giving. Some praise the film, and some have derided

 the film&#8217;s script, directing, predictability, and more. Although its filmcraft is certainly not flawless, a charitable viewer focused on the [...] (released: 2008) ]]></description>
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		<title>Once (Before viewing)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2009/once-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2009/once-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Both the music and the story are excellent, and the way they are intertwined notably raises the impact and resonance of the film&#8217;s exploration of relationships and reconciliation. The story is thinly told, yet it feels that nothing important is left out. Rather, the story is compressed so that each scene shows important character traits, [...] (released: 2007) ]]></description>
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		<title>Wit (Before viewing)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2009/wit-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2009/wit-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://piercedtotheheart.org/dialog/?p=275</guid>

	
		<description><![CDATA[In the context of a life and death scenario, Wit intensely explores issues of life before death by juxtaposing the emotional sterility of the typical health care process, the purpose of academic rigor, simple human caring, the power of art, and the value and dignity of a human. Although it is an intense film with [...] (released: 2001) ]]></description>
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		<title>Smoke Signals (Before viewing)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2009/smoke-signals-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2009/smoke-signals-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Before viewing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Drama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://piercedtotheheart.org/dialog/?p=258</guid>

	
		<description><![CDATA[Made by Indians about Indians (we can say &#8220;Indians&#8221; rather than &#8220;Native Americans&#8221; because they themselves say it that way in the film), Smoke Signals creatively mixes humor from multiple angles (about Indians, about reservations, about how others see Indians, about the history of Indian relations with the USA, etc.) with serious explorations of relationships [...] (released: 1998) ]]></description>
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		<title>The Secret of Roan Inish (Before viewing)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2009/secret-of-roan-inish-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2009/secret-of-roan-inish-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The legends, mystery, and characters in The Secret of Roan Inish beautifully embody our innate longing for home and how we deal with that longing. The Irish waterscape and the life within it becomes a character, being both lovely and treacherous, passive and with its own active agenda. John Sayles&#8217; filmcraft takes us deeply into [...] (released: 1994) ]]></description>
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		<title>Lars and the Real Girl (Before viewing)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2009/lars-and-the-real-girl-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2009/lars-and-the-real-girl-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://piercedtotheheart.org/dialog/?p=118</guid>

	
		<description><![CDATA[Lars and the Real Girl asks big &#8220;what if&#8221; questions about how we, the &#8220;normal&#8221;, might love those with mental illness. It would be easy for the film to take the premise over the top into staged gags and crude jokes, but it doesn’t. It is both serious and lighthearted, and always respectful of the [...] (released: 2007) ]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Kahuna (Before viewing)</title>
		<link>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2009/big-kahuna-before</link>
		<comments>http://piercedtotheheart.org/2009/big-kahuna-before#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Heffner at piercedtotheheart.org</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Big Kahuna insightfully explores the nature of true concern for another individual in the context of friend-to-friend banter, interactions with coworkers, personal crisis, and Christian evangelism. Adapted from a stage play, the film gains substantial power by compressing the action into three characters, mostly in a single room. The screenplay, performances, directing, and cinematography [...] (released: 1999) ]]></description>
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