"Mesmerizing."
Alex Ross
music critic, The New Yorker
"Marvelous, moving, amusing, intelligent."
Nathan Lee
film critic, The Village Voice
"An absolutely wonderful movie...
How many great lines there are -
I stopped counting halfway through."
David Weininger
music critic, The Boston Globe

"Takes the documentary to a
new and more intriguing level...
wickedly funny
...the interview
subjects are among the
most extraordinary I have
ever seen or heard

in a documentary."
The Mobile Press-Register

"Apparition of The Eternal Church will blow your mind!
The suspense will kill you... I was utterly
blown away
when I reviewed the DVD."
San Francisco Bay Times

"Fascinating."
The Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco
"A wonderful film."
88.5 KCSN Arts and Roots Radio, Los Angeles

"One of the best music
films
I've ever seen."
Karl Bartos
founder of Kraftwerk
professor, Berlin University of the Arts

"Remarkable."
The Taos News
"Astonishing - a marvel."
Ronnie Gilbert
The Weavers
“One of the most spellbinding
films
I have seen in my long life.”
Ann Hicks
arts reporter, The Greenville News

"Truly a fantastic piece of art."
Rob Bailis
director, ODC Theater

"People just could not
stop talking about it
."
Wm. Brian Owens
director, Indianapolis International Film Festival

"A genuinely sublime documentary...
an orgy of imagination... some of
the best stuff I've seen all year."
The Reeler, New York


"The movie demonstrated,
like no other I have seen
(and in a truly original way),
the primal power that
music can exert
on the
human psyche... For anyone
interested in music, it's a
film not to be missed."
Ed Hamilton
The Hotel Chelsea Blog, New York

"An absorbing and
exhilarating
film about
the power of music."
GetTRIO.com

"A highlight of the festival."
Jane Sullivan
director, Santa Cruz Film Festival

"A life-changing experience."
Santa Cruz Film Festival audience member


"One of the most outstanding
films
on religious experience,
theology and church I
have ever seen."
Dr. Christian M. Rutishauser
program director
Lassalle-House Bad Schönbrunn


"One of the most amazing
musical/artistic/religious
experiences
of my life."
Rev. Prof. Stephen Schloesser
Boston College

"From time to time, we get an iconic picture
of Grace Cathedral as a public religious
institution like no other. One such moment
was a recent Friday night when we hosted
the San Francisco premiere of documentary
filmmaker Paul Festa’s Apparition of the
Eternal Church
...."
The Rev. Cn. Mary E. Haddad, Canon Pastor, Grace Cathedral


"I rarely see anything so
thought-provoking. It was
like hanging out with super-
smart people for an evening
and just listening to them
talk and soaking it up....
I found myself falling in
love
with a lot of them....
It was as if the music allowed
them to be honest and transparent
in a way I don't generally see.
As a Christian, coming from
a very pro-church background,
I loved hearing what people
from a completely different
world thought. I was blown away....
Go see the movie. It's amazing."
327market.blogspot.com

"See this film! You'll
never listen to music
the same way again."
David Dawson

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