What about Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev? It’s tough, beautiful, perfect, revelatory in thousands of ways… Plus, I would DIE to see that film on the big screen…

Henry Bean’s The Believer has been deeply influential for me – though I know you showed it some years before.

My first real encounter with cinema was the library scene in Wings of Desire. An incredible film that tries to merge the heavenly and the earthly; it takes my breath away every time I see it.

And what of films where the take is, essentially, that God does not reveal himself – like Bergman’s trilogy of Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, and The Silence? That theme, it seems, could be found in dozens of films, and could include those that follow the 60s generation, hippies, cult members (like Jane Campion’s Holy Smoke) to films that focus on those at the bottom of society (like the Maysles’ Salesman or the Welsh miners of How Green Was My Valley).