Holy Trips

The physical journey of the pilgrimage, the interior quest of soul-searching and self-discovery—these are the subjects of Holy Trips, a series devoted to devotional missions, some treated with sacerdotal solemnity, others with secular satirical bite. Buñuel and Bresson, Pasolini and the Pythons, miracles and mescaline, a Landscape in the Mist and some Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas—here you’ll find apocalyptic auguries (the infamous “Fin de cinéma” that concludes Godard’s Weekend) alongside glimpses of salvation, cinematic revelations infused with more than a touch of the Book of Revelations, and heaping helpings of both the ridiculous and the sublime.