Movie Theology - Spring 2009
Fridays – 7:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Location: various parishioner homes
January 9 |
Network (1976) |
February 13 |
The Lives of Others (2006) |
March 20 |
Away >From her ( 2007) |
April 17 |
the Visitor (2007) |
May 8 |
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) |
In a slight departure from previous years, the movies chosen for this next season of Movie Theology are not connected by any over-arching theme. Rather, each of the selections has been chosen because it inspired real interest and excitement among several parishioners, and because it touched people in a spiritual way. We believe these movies will provoke interesting, entertaining, and meaningful discussions regarding issues that are important to us as a community of faithful people. Each movie is worth seeing and discussing, regardless of whether you react to it spiritually or artistically.
Additionally, we’ve changed the venue for watching the movies this season. Instead of the movies being shown in the Parkinson Room once a month, different parishioners will be hosting viewers in their homes. We believe this change will make for a more casual and inviting setting for watching and discussing the movies selected – and you can still bring your favorite beverage!
The movie will start at 7:00 p.m. and discussion will immediately follow.
Contact Anita Lisk at 355-1779, ext. 13 or e-mail alisk@doers.org for information and to sign up to be on the email reminder list.
Last Year's Movie
Theology selections
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March 20, 2009 |
 
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Away From Her (2007)
Fiona (Julie Christie) and Grant (Gordon Pinsent) are an Ontario couple who have been married for over 40 years. Now, in the oncoming twilight of their years, they are forced to face the fact that Fiona’s “forgetfulness” actually is Alzheimer’s Disease. After Fiona wanders away and is found after being lost, they agree she must go into a nursing home. For the first time in the five decades their relationship has spanned, they are forced to undergo a long-time separation since the nursing home has a “no-visitors” policy for the first 30 days of a patient’s stay, so they can adjust to their new surroundings. When Grant visits Fiona after the orientation period, he is devastated to find out that not only has she seemingly forgotten him, Fiona has transferred her affections to another man. The other man is Aubrey, a wheelchair bound mute patient at the nursing home. As the distance between husband and wife grows, Grant must draw upon his love for Fiona to perform an act of self-sacrifice in order to ensure her happiness.
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April 17, 2009 |
 
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The Visitor (2007)
Walter Vale is a widower who teaches economics at a Connecticut university. No longer motivated by his work, he lives alone, struggling to find passion and meaning in his life. In New York to present a paper at a conference, he goes to the apartment that he has kept since his wife was alive (but hasn’t visited for some time) only to discover a young couple living there, having been duped by an acquaintance who “rented” it to them. Despite their great cultural difference, Walter befriends Tarek, a Syrian citizen and drummer, and gradually builds a friendship with Esi, his girlfriend from Senegal. |
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May 8, 2009 |
 
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The Diving Bell & the Butterfly (2007)
Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he’d only visited in his mind. |
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