Examining Christianity in Film with Director Tyler Smith
The Andrew Klavan Show
The Andrew Klavan Show
4.8 • 22.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Best gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike. |
| 0:07.0 | It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like, it was so, it was all wrapped up, |
| 0:13.0 | it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing's shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so |
| 0:17.0 | a guest. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now so, for that one change me a little. |
| 0:24.0 | Enjoy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks. |
| 0:30.0 | So I'm really happy to have my pal Tyler Smith back on. It's been a long time since we've talked to him. |
| 0:34.0 | He's a film critic at college professor in LA. He's written for a lot of outlets and he runs a co-hosts of podcast Battleship |
| 0:42.0 | Protection which recently put out the book, The 101 Best Films of the 2010s but he's made a documentary called Real |
| 0:49.0 | Redemption which is about religion in films. It got a rave review from Christian Toto at Hollywood in Toto. |
| 0:56.0 | Here is a trailer. |
| 0:58.0 | The story of the church's relationship with Hollywood is long complicated and even a little melodramatic. |
| 1:03.0 | This is my church. |
| 1:06.0 | The Bible of course is terrific, but for millions of people pictures will be the reference point for the story. |
| 1:14.0 | While Faith is a difficult concept to nail down visually, the impact of Faith is not. |
| 1:21.0 | I want to compare Faith to running an erase. It's hard. |
| 1:29.0 | To show God is to limit him. So when depicting God, a filmmaker has his work cut out for. |
| 1:35.0 | Yes, why do we have to have evil? |
| 1:38.0 | I think it's something to do with free will. |
| 1:43.0 | The intersection of Faith and film is more active, more aggressive and more alive than ever before. |
| 1:50.0 | Why now? |
| 1:53.0 | Tyler Smith, it's good to see you. How you doing? |
| 1:55.0 | Oh, I'm doing all right. How are you? |
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