72: End of an Era
After almost two years of cohosting together—and after eight years total for Kevin!—we’re drawing the curtain on the current iteration of Seeing & Believing podcast. It isn’t the end of Seeing & Believing as a critical venture, but it is the end of week-in, week-out late nights recording movie reviews in an ersatz audio booth made from clothes racks and old quilts on the second floor of my house.
Our final episode was a moment for us to pause and take stock, both of the podcast as a whole and of our attitude toward faith and film criticism. I’m quite pleased with the places that conversation went. Kevin and I have been talking about movies, new and old, on a weekly basis for nearly a hundred episodes. Our respective approaches toward film criticism, and toward folding in our faiths into that critical thought, have evolved over the years that we've been doing this. Most of the time that work is done in the background, implicit in the way we talk about movies but rarely made explicit. This conversation also gave us the opportunity to talk plainly about the ways we think about "faithful" film criticism, and how that's shifted.
This isn’t the end for Seeing & Believing. Kevin and I are going to keep publishing criticism together in newsletter form. The first issue goes out next week—you can subscribe here.
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What I talked about:
You can listen to the final episode of Seeing & Believing now. Whether you’ve been here for the last few weeks or you’ve been with the podcast since long before I joined as co-host, thank you for listening. We hope you’ll join us over at the newsletter.
What I'm reading:
I recently picked up a copy of Babel by R.F. Kuang. It's still to early to say for certain, but I'm intrigued by the book's approach toward translation as a source of power...and a way to steal that power from others.
What I'm listening to:
Today is the fall equinox. I’ve pulled together a playlist to mark the occasion. It’s a mix of newer and old songs, but all of them have to do with endings and beginnings.
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