Luke Babb reviews the new Benoit Blanc film and discovers that, in the midst of a murder mystery steeped in Catholic imagery, there is a lot to consider about the role of clergy in modern Paganism.
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Classics of Pagan Cinema: Three Silly Symphonies
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Eric O. Scott reviews three classic Disney shorts with mythological themes: “Playful Pan,” “King Neptune,” and “The Goddess of Spring.” Produced between 1930 and 1934, each cartoon represents a different approach to myth and film-making.
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Pagan Cinema Classics: Knightriders
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“Magic ain’t got nothing to do with organs and glands and busted necks,” says Merlin. “Magic got to do with the soul. Only the soul got destiny. It’s got a way, it’s got to fly.”
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Mojo, Music, and Magic in Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners”
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Noelle Bowles examines Ryan Coogler’s hit film “Sinners,” speaking with Tony Kail, cultural anthropologist and scholar of Hoodoo, about how this story of vampires and the blues in the Jim Crow south faithfully incorporates Hoodoo and rootworking.
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Classics of Pagan Cinema: Rosemary’s Baby
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“Looking at where the word ‘coven’ comes from, we start with ‘convenire,’ a verb meaning to come together,” writes Meg Elison in this searing reappraisal of the 1968 classic. “When a woman comes together with the devil, we get ‘Rosemary’s Baby.'”
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Classics of Pagan Cinema: The Cauldron of Cerridwen and “The Sword in the Stone”
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The legend is always changing from one thing to another, being gobbled up and sweated out, being birthed into new life with new names, being boiled up in the cauldron of Ceridwen to become what it must be next.