The passing of Pope Francis inspired us to watch his favorite movies.

ROME OPEN CITY directed by Roberto Rossellini

LA STRADA directed by Federico Fellini

BABETTE'S FEAST directed by Gabriel Axel

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What CONCLAVE gets right and VERY wrong

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We analyze the Confession scene in CONCLAVE https://youtu.be/wRl3QeWCHzU

Artfully Deceptive: Setting the Record Straight on the Movie ‘Conclave’ https://media.benedictine.edu/artfully-deceptive-setting-the-record-straight-on-the-movie-conclave

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SINNERS reaches for greatness... then has second thoughts. Michael B. Jordan and Michael B. Jordan star in this big-budget original movie written & directed by Ryan Coogler (Black Panther, Creed, Fruitvale Station). It tells the story of the Smoketstack Twins, they are named, Smoke and... Stack. They've returned home after a stint with the mafia, and they're gathering old friends to open Club Juke, the jukiest club in town. The only problem (on top of the racism of Jim Crow South, and the pain of the human condition) is there's a bunch of vampires in the woods.

The Devil in Music (The Untold History of the Tritone) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR5yzCH5CsM&t=437s

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It's Carlo Collodi vs. Guillermo Del Toro. John and Jessica Beyer of Oasis Studio 7 join Michael Coy to discuss the classic book by Carlo Collodi and how its message is transformed or subverted by Guillermo Del Toro. Together we talk about the beauty and craft of Stop-Motion, the religious symbolism in the film, and our differing approaches to children's entertainment.

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Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio is a masterful retelling of the timeless tale by Carlo Collodi. He updates the story in many ways, adding his preoccupation with fascism, a tragic backstory to Geppetto, his classic theme of disobedience... but the most foundational and brilliant innovation is to tell the story using stop-motion animation. This art form adds a third-dimension to the themes of Pinocchio. Ask yourself, what does it mean to be a "real boy" when all the real people around you are puppets? The film and the craft behind it invite us to reflect on our own role as craftsmen in relation to our Creator. In two weeks we will have a follow-up episode where we answer three questions asked in this video. The Catholic Film Club is a podcast about Craft & Conscience in the movies. INSTAGRAM: @media.benedictine WEBSITE: Media.benedictine.edu BENEDICTINE COLLEGE: benedictine.edu Letter to Artists - St. Pope John Paul II https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/letters/1999/documents/hf_jp-ii_let_23041999_artists.html

Dr. Richard White (Professor of Theology at Benedictine College) joins Michael Coy (guy) for a conversation about The Conversation, the paranoid thriller starring Gene Hackman, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Watch our Introductory Essay to The Conversation • Coppola's CONVERSATION with God The Catholic Film Club is about Craft & Conscience in the movies. One Film a Month Introductory Essay at the beginning of the month Follow up conversation with a special guest and YOUR answers to three questions. Email us: filmclub@benedictine.edu

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This month on the Catholic Film Club we're covering The Conversation, Francis Ford Coppola's paranoid thriller about Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) a surveillance man who leads a very private life. Join us in two weeks for an hour-long discussion about the film.

The Catholic Film Club covers one movie a month. Our main subject is the marriage between craft & conscience in the movies.

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We're happy to be joined by Rob Kaczmark, the President and CEO of Spirit Juice Studios. Spirit Juice is the premiere Catholic production company, based on Chicago, IL. They have created top flight films for any number of organizations, including Word on Fire and The Knights of Columbus. Rob is the co-director of Heart of a Servant: The Father Flanagan Story, a feature length documentary about the founder of Boys Town, NE, Fr. Ed Flanagan. WATCH Heart of a Servant: The Fr. Flanagan Story on Amazon Prime https://www.amazon.com/Heart-Servant-... The Pint & The Cross: How to Drink Like a Saint https://pintandcross.com/

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Conclave has been nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The most annoying of these nominations is Best Adapted Screenplay by Peter Straughn, based on the novel by Robert Harris, because neither the screenplay or the novel has a clue about the Catholic Church. Even though they have a LOT of opinions on how to fix it. Case in point, a scene where its hero breaks the Confessional seal, which any Cardinal would know incurs an AUTOMATIC excommunication. But hey, who needs logic or honesty when you have a big message to deliver? WATCH our previous discussion on CONCLAVE'S TWIST ENDING https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmhBaDur4bA

MOVIEWISE: "Conclave has no brains" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cseW9B-Ug3k

The Catholic Film Club is a podcast about Craft & Conscience. This show is brought to you by The Center for Catholic Media at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 - Introduction

0:48 - Conclave Background and Oscars

2:35 - Priests CANNOT break the Confessional Seal

7:50 - Alfred Hitchcock's "I CONFESS"

9:00 - BEGIN Scene Breakdown

19:50 - Where Cardinal Lawrence definitively breaks Seal

29:00 - Closing Thoughts