You're listening to the Allender Center podcast with Dr. Dan Allender.

This week, Dan continues his conversation with Dr. Craig Detweiler, president of the Seattle School.

Dan pulls from Craig's background as a filmmaker and asks him to reflect on three of his favorite directors.

And together they wonder about how stories of

tragedy, comedy, and fantasy might all reflect something of the heart of the gospel.

Well, my privilege I mentioned last time is still here today, and that is I get to be with my boss, Craig Detweiler.

And Craig, if people didn't get a chance to look at this book, it just came out April 3rd and is available.

I downloaded mine on Kindle just because I just, you know, as much

as I resent Amazon, I'm bound to it. I'm bound like any Coke addict to the gifts it gives,

even though I think it's destroying our culture and certainly Seattle. But nonetheless, that was a

great download and one that I'm grateful for with regard to the work that you have done on behalf of

us. But what I want to do is take you into that framework of filmmaker. And I will say,

let me pick three directors I want you to talk about.

If you want to go to specific films, please feel free to do so. But Cohen Brothers,

Wes Anderson, and I will confess my favorite of all, Christopher Guest.

So tell us, and I'm going to assume that if folks don't know those three, because a lot of people know films, but they don't actually know the director.

And that's a little bit like knowing the symphony but not knowing the director.

Come on, the director is really, frankly, in some ways, more interesting than the film itself, or at least like a Picasso.

Nobody questions usually seeing a Picasso, that it's a Picasso or Shagall, a Shagall.

And these filmmakers, even with disparately different topics,

eras, ages, et cetera,

they seem to have that mark on the film that is unique to them.

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