Todd Recommends...

Through A Screen Darkly (Jeffrey Overstreet)
Regal Books, February 5, 2007

I loved this book!

Essentially, this book highlights some of Overstreet's most influential film experiences, identifies their larger themes and then finds that same theme supported and celebrated in other movies.

In addition to this great collection of redemptive images found in movies, the book also speaks honestly and powerfully about "Christian movies" and "Christian movie critics." Overstreet is respectful, but its clear that he comes at film in a manner quite different from most other religious film organizations. The author talks very honestly about making good choices with regard to what we put before our eyes, but he also has a brain in his head and offers some nice counterpoint to the "hunker-in-the-bunker" mentality of many Christian movie critics.

I also found the book to be a great tool - throughout the work, Overstreet is actually teaching the reader HOW to watch movies; how to open my mind and heart to look for God in films that I might normally just pass over or consider unworthy of my time.

If you love film, I think you'll love Through A Screen Darkly.