Writers and editors Timothy Lawrence and Timothy House join us from FilmFisher—a community of classically minded Christian film critics dedicated to bringing the Great Tradition into conversation with modern cinema. Together they discuss the site’s origins, its recent relaunch, and the enduring need for thoughtful film criticism in an age of algorithms and crowd-sourced reviews.
In this episode, we discuss:
📖 How FilmFisher emerged from the classical education movement through Christopher Perrin and Joshua Gibbs
📖 Why film criticism matters—and how it can once again become humane, literary, and formative
📖 What sets great criticism apart from “thumbs up/thumbs down” crowd scores
📖 How to watch films more attentively by learning the language of images and perspective
LINKS:
➡️ FilmFisher: https://filmfisher.com
➡️ FilmFisher Substack: https://filmfisher.substack.com
➡️ Jedi Archives (Timothy Lawrence’s Star Wars lectures): https://explicatingstarwars.substack....
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