Blog: In writing ‘First Reformed,’ an intellectual decision soon became overwhelmingly emotional

As a young person, I didn’t see films for the simple reason no one in my church saw films. They were proscribed by synodical decree. I can’t say I felt I was missing much. I came to movies as an adult, as a college student in the ’60s, and fell in love with European art cinema: Bergman, Antonioni, Bresson, Resnais, Godard, Fellini, Buñuel. That was the music that was playing when I walked into the corridors of cinema, and I’ve loved it ever since.