Rolfe Peterson

A former teacher at Brigham Young University and popular radio and television movie critic in Salt Lake City, Rolfe Peterson now has his own television show in San Francisco and teaches at the College of San Mateo.

Ecumenical Cinema | Robert Wise, dir., The Sound of Music

Articles/Essays – Volume 01, No. 2

God is not dead in Hollywood. The phenomenal success of The Sound of Music means that nuns are in again, and two current movies give us a choice, according to side-by-side newspaper ads, of Rosalind…

Finding Yourself at the Movies | John Huston, dir., The Bible: In the Beginning . . .

Articles/Essays – Volume 02, No. 2

I have seen The Bible and I believe in it as far as John Huston has translated it correctly. He is sometimes like DeMille and other scriptural movie makers—sugar coating, sentimentalizing, pompous piety—but most of…