"So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation..." -2 Corinthians 5:17
You are welcome to join us for a Friday night film series October through May. The series features a variety of great films, designed to stimulate discussion on matters of spirituality and faith. Plus, it's fun. Co-coordinator Dave Eschenbach says, "For something to do downtown on a Friday night---this can't be beat"
Movie buffs and spiritual seekers can stay after the movie, if they wish, to join a discussion about the film's connection to the human quest to know God.
There is no charge. The movie starts at 7:00 p.m. Bring your friends. We'll provide popcorn and drinks.
Second Fridays in 2010-2011:
October 8: The Soloist (2009)
Directed by Joe Wright
A Los Angeles journalist, looking for an article for the newspaper, meets and then befriends a homeless man who turns out to be a Julliard-trained violinist. True story based on the book by Steve Lopez about Nathaniel Ayers.
November 12: Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Directed by Stuart Rosenberg
Condemned to a Southern chain gang, a cool, gutsy man refuses to conform to life in a rural prison. Paul Newman is a classic anti-hero in one of the great Hollywood prison movies of the 1960s.
December 10: Babel (2006)
Directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different seemingly random families, all connected by a single gun.
January 14: Atonement (2007)
Directed by Joe Wright
Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
February 11: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
Directed by Peter Weir
During the Napoleonic Wars, a brash British captain pushes his ship and crew to their limits in pursuit of a formidable French war vessel around South America.
March 11: Flawless (2008)
Directed by Michael Radford
In London in 1960, a soon-to-retire janitor played by Michael Caine convinces a glass-ceiling constrained American executive to help him steal a handful of diamonds from their employer, the London Diamond Corporation, setting in motion a thrilling heist of dizzying proportions, the likes of which London has never seen.
April 8: Babe (1995)
Directed by Chris Noonan
Babe, a pig raised by sheepdogs, learns to herd sheep with a little help from Farmer Hoggett. Funny, poignant, and reflective of St. Pauls theology, Honor the lowly.
May 13: Bridge Over the River Kwai (1957)
Directed by David Lean
Often named as one of the top films of all time. After settling his differences with a Japanese POW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.
