Grace & Peace Film Series

      

Screening movies from all genres while enjoying the art of good filmmaking, as well as exploring their themes that connect to our creator God. Lively discussion follows each film screening. Evening screenings are held at 6:30 PM in the new Gallery room, located next door to the church office.  If you have any questions, please contact Jim Tudor for more information at jmtudor@sbcglobal.net.


We will be offering theme-oriented groupings of films as well as individual one-off screenings.  In the future, look for series' based on the theme of "Unlikely Christ Figures", as well as the French New Wave, the Shiloh series, a certain Pixar trilogy, and much, much more!

SCHEDULED SCREENINGS/EVENTS:

IMAGE & MEANING: A LOOK AT CULTURE [Every Friday night in Jan. & Feb.]

Friday, February 10: "Page One: Inside the New York Times" (d. Andrew Rossi)
Friday, February 17: "True Stories" (d. David Byrne)
Friday, February 24: "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" (d. Edgar Wright)

French New Wave Series [Coming Spring 2012]
"The 400 Blows"
"Breathless"
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Grace & Peace Film Series History:

01/06/08:  Rocky Balboa.  (d: Sylvester Stallone, 2006) 16 people attended.  Screened with Bugs Bunny boxing cartoon, and AFI segment on the original Rocky.

01/13/08:  The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.  (d: John Ford, 1962) 16 people attended.  Screened with a Bugs Bunny/Yosemite Sam western cartoon.

01/20/08:  Angels with Dirty Faces.  (d: Michael Curtiz, 1938) 19 people attended.  Screened with Thugs with Dirty Mugs.

01/27/08:  Rear Window.  (d: Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) 17 people attended. Also showed The Big Snit cartoon & Queen video “Under Pressure” (a tribute to Dean)

02/10/08:  The Hudsucker Proxy.  (d: Joel & Ethan Coen, 1994) 11 people attended.  Screened with The Cat Came Back

02/17/08:  Sunset Blvd.  (d: Billy Wilder, 1950) 23 people attended.  Screened with Fleicsher Superman: Bulleteers.

03/02/08:  Fixed Bayonets! (d: Samuel Fuller, 1951) 19 people attended.  Screened with Der Fuhrer’s Face.

03/09/08:  Signs.  (d: M. Night Shyamalan, 2002) 15 people attended.  Screened with The Old Mill.

03/16/08:  Top Hat.  (d: Mark Sandrich, 1935) 19 people attended.  Screened with What’s Opera Doc?

03/30/08.  The Day the Earth Stood Still.  (d: Robert Wise, 1951) 11 people attended.  Screened w/ Duck Dogers in the 24 1/2 Century.

04/20/08:  Raiders of the Lost Ark.  (d: Steven Spielberg, 1981) 11 people attended.  Screened w/ Dumb-Hounded.

05/08:  Singin’ in the Rain.  (d: Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952) 15 people attended.  Screened with Moving Day.

06/22/08:  Double Indemnity. (d: Billy Wilder, 1944) 20 people attended.  Screened w/ Batty Baseball.

07/20/08:  Galaxy Quest.  (d: Dean Parisot, 1999) 13 people attended.  Screened w/ Pest Control (a Pete Smith live-action short).

08/17/08:  The Incredible Shrinking Man. (d: Jack Arnold, 1957) 14 people attended. Screened w/ Batty Baseball & vintage DA footage (“The Incredible Shrinking Man”, and “New Car!”).

09/14/08:  Sullivan’s Travels.  (d: Preston Sturges, 1941) 14 people attended.  Screened w/ Playful Pluto.

10/19/08: Cat People.  (d: Jacques Tourneur, 1942) 12 people attended.  Screened with Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Mouse (Tom & Jerry) & David Bowie concert footage of “Cat People (Puttin’ Out Fire with Gasoline)” (a musical nod to the “Cat People” remake).

11/16/08: The Incredibles.  (d: Brad Bird, 2004) 34 people attended.  Screened with Boundin’.

12/14/08: UHF.  (d: Jay Levey, 1989) 10 people attended (peak attendance).  Screened with an Al appreciation montage of music videos, concert footage, TV & movie clips, and more.

01/18/09: 12 Angry Men.  (d: Sidney Lumet, 1957) 15 people attended.  Screened with The Pink Panther cartoon We Give Pink Slips.

02/15/09: Coal Miner’s Daughter.  (d: Michael Apted, 1980) 30 People attended. Screened with vintage Loretta Lynn TV appearances: Johnny Cash Show (“I Know How”) and Hee Haw (“Fist City”). 

03/15/09: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (d: Nicholas Meyer, 1982) )  22 People attended.  Screened with Trailer 3 for J.J. Abrams’ upcoming “Star Trek”, “Space Seed” episode preview, “SNL” vintage 1976 “Star Trek” sketch.

05/03/09: Citizen Kane.  (d: Orson Welles, 1941)  13 people attended.  Screened with a custom-made preview for “Way Down East”.

05/10/09: Way Down East.  (d: D.W. Griffith, 1920)  7 people attended (peak attendance).  Screened with a custom-made preview for Metropolis.

05/17/09: Metropolis. (d: Fritz Lang, 1927) 14 people attended.  Screened with "The Bicycle Thief" trailer, and Queen's Metropolis-inspired "Radio Ga-Ga" music video. 

05/24/09: The Bicycle Thief (AKA Bicycle Thieves).  (d: Vittorio De Sica, 1948) 30 people attended.  Screened with a custom-made preview for Wild Strawberries.

05/31/09: Wild Strawberries.  (d: Ingmar Bergman, 1957) 19 people attended.  Screened with the original Snow White trailer, and a video clip of a 1970 interview with Ingmar Bergman.

06/07/09: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.  (d: David Hand, 1937) 30 people attended.  Screened with the Dont Look Back trailer, and Disney's The Three Little Pigs Silly Symphony short.

06/14/09: Dont Look Back.  (d: D.A. Pennebaker, 1967) 21 people attended.  Screened with Koyaanisqatsi trailer.

06/21/09: Koyaanisqatsi.  (d: Godfrey Reggio, 1982) 25 people attended.  Screened with Rabbit, an animated short by Run Wrake (presented by Max Eisenbraun).

07/19/09: Showdown at Area 51.  (d. C. Roma, 2007) 20 people attended.  Screened with 2001: A Space Odyssey trailer.  Screening conducted with commentary and Q&A by members of the film's crew.

08/16/09: 2001: A Space Odyssey. (d. Stanley Kubrick, 1968) 14 people attended.  Screened with Key Largo trailer.

09/13/09: Key Largo. (d. John Huston, 1948) 10 people attended.  Screened with The Gorgon trailer, Daffy Duck in Hollywood, and a clip of the Beach Boys performing "Good Vibrations".

10/18/09:  The Gorgon. (d. Terence Fisher, 1964)  13 people attended.  Screened with the Terence Fisher episode of "The Fearmakers" documentary series, and Bugs Bunny in Water, Water Every Hare (d. Charles Jones, 1952).

11/15/09: Nanook of the North.  (d. Robert J. Flaherty, 1922)  5 people attended.  Screened with the Gremlins trailer, and a Chilly Willy cartoon directed by Tex Avery. 
 

12/13/09: Gremlins.  (d. Joe Dante, 1984)  13 people attended.  Screened with the Bugs Bunny cartoon Falling Hare (d. Robert Clampett), and the trailer for The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.

01/17/10:  The King of Kong: A Fistfull of Quarters (d. Seth Gordon, 2007)  12 people attended.  Screened with the "SCTV" comedy sketch Night School High-Q.

01/31/10:  City Lights (d. Charles Chaplin, 1931)  19 people attended.  Screened with a custom-made preview trailer for The Love Parade, and the original Mickey Mouse cartoon, Steamboat Willie (d. Ub Iwerks, 1928) with Leonard Maltin's DVD intro.

02/14/10:  The Love Parade (d. Ernst Lubitsch, 1929)  9 people attended.  Screened with a custom-made preview trailer for Battleship Potemkin, an 18 minute documentary assembled from the feature length Dawn of Sound doc, and an early piece of animation by Winsor McCay.

02/21/10:  Battleship Potemkin (d. Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)  17 people attended.  Screened with the trailer for Rashomon and the two-reel Soviet comedy short film Chess Fever (d. V.I. Pudovkin, 1925).

02/28/10: Rashomon (d. Akira Kurosawa, 1950)  18 people attended.  Screened with portions of the documentary Seven Samurai: Origins and Influences, and the Rebel Without a Cause trailer .

03/14/10: Rebel Without A Cause (d. Nicholas Ray, 1955)  14 people attended.  Screened with Droopy cartoon Blackboard Jumble (d. Maichael Lah, 1957), James Dean's Rebel "Behind the Camera" segment, and the La Strada trailer.

03/21/10: La Strada (d. Federico Fellini, 1954)  23 people attended.  Screened with the classic Looney Tunes cartoon One Froggy Evening (d. Charles Jones, 1955), the Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore trailer, and a portion of Martin Scorsese's introduction to La Strada from the Criterion DVD.

03/28/10: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (d. Martin Scorsese, 1974)  20 people attended.  Screened with the Road Runner cartoon Going! Going! Gosh! (d. Charles Jones, 1952) and the Close Encounters of the Third Kind trailer.

04/11/10: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (d. Steven Spielberg, 1977)  12 people attended.  Screened with the Bugs Bunny/Marvin the Martian cartoon Haredevil Hare (d. Charles Jones, 1948) and the Wings of Desire trailer.

04/18/10: Wings of Desire (d. Wim Wenders, 1987)  31 people attended.  Screened with portions of the documentary My Best Fiend (d. Werner Herzog, 1999) and the U2 music video "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" (d. Wim Wenders, 1993).

04/15/11: Bringing Up Baby (d. Howard Hawks, 1938)  39 people attended.  Screened with the Leon Schlesinger cartoon A Star Is Hatched (d. Friz Freleng, 1938).  Preceded by a presentation on Bringing Up Baby and the screwball comedy sub-genre.  (Film one of the three-film series "Selected Classics by Howard Hawks".)

05/06/11: Scarface (d. Howard Hawks, 1932) 11 people attended.  Screened with the Popeye cartoon Blow Me Down! (d. Dave Fleischer, 1933) and the Rio Bravo trailer.  Preceded by a presentation on Scarface and the gangster film genre.  (Film two of the three-film series "Selected Classics by Howard Hawks".)

05/13/11: Rio Bravo (d. Howard Hawks, 1959)  31 people attended.  Screened with Looney Tunes cartoon Bacall To Arms (d. Robert Clampett, 1946).  Preceded by a presentation on Rio Bravo and Howard Hawks.  (Film three of the three-film series "Selected Classics by Howard Hawks".)

05/20/11: High Noon (d. Fred Zinnemann, 1952)  24 people attended.  Screened with the Mission: Impossible teaser, and Woody Woodpecker cartoon Stage Hoax (Walter Lantz Productions, 1952).  Preceded by a presentation on High Noon.

07/09/11: Despicable Me (d. Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud)  11 people attended.  Our first Saturday morning screening.

07/22/11: Mission: Impossible (d. Brian De Palma, 1996) 16 people attended.  Preceded by a presentation on Mission: Impossible & Brian De Palma, including clips of Carrie, Rififi, and Topkapi.  (Film one of the three-film series "The Star, The Auteur, and the Blockbuster")

07/29/11:  Mission: Impossible II (d. John Woo, 2000)  18 people attended.  Preceded by a presentation on M:I-2 & John Woo, including clips from A Better Tomorrow and Hard Boiled, and the Bugs Bunny/Wile E. Coyote cartoon To Hare Is Human (d. Chuck Jones, 1956).  (Film two of the three-film series "The Star, The Auteur, and the Blockbuster")

08/05/11:  Mission: Impossible III (d. J.J. Abrams, 2006) 26 people attended.  Preceded by the Peeping Tom trailer, a presentation on M:I-3, J.J. Abrams, and "the fall of Tom Cruise", and the Bugs Bunny/Wile E. Coyote cartoon Operation: Rabbit (d. Chuck Jones, 1952).  (Film three of the three-film series "The Star, The Auteur, and the Blockbuster")

08/19/11:  Peeping Tom (d. Michael Powell, 1960) 18 people attended.  Preceded by the 400 Blows trailer, a presentation on Peeping Tom & the slasher film sub-genre by guest presenter Dave Henry, and the Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd cartoon Hare Do (d. Friz Freleng, 1949). 

09/16/11:  Stop Making Sense (d. Jonathan Demme, 1984) 9 people attended.  Preceded by the trailers for Beauty and the Beast (1991) & Frankenstein (1931) and the David Byrne Self Interview promotional/gag video for Stop Making Sense, as well as a presentation on Stop Making Sense, David Byrne and the Talking Heads.

09/17/11:  Beauty and the Beast (d. Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise, 1991) 18 people attended.  We screened the 2002 Special Edition, with 6 minutes of newer footage integrated into the film.

10/07/11:  Frankenstein (d. James Whale, 1931) 10 people attended.  Preceded by trailers for The Green Mile (the Chapel Film Series cross-promotion), Dracula (1931), the original "Simpsons: Treehouse of Horrors" spoof of the discalaimer beginning of Frankenstein, The Bugs Bunny cartoon Hair-Raising Hare (d. Chuck Jones, 1946) and a 10 minute version of the Frankenstein Files documentary.

10/14/11:  Dracula (d. Tod Browning, 1931) 14 People attended.  Preceded by trailers for The Mist (the Chapel Film Series cross-promotion), The Wolf Man, The segment of the "Sledge Hammer!" episode "The Spa Who Loved Me" spoofing the discalaimer beginning of Frankenstein, a 14 minute version of The Road to Dracula documentary, and the Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd cartoon Hare-Brained Hypnotist (d. Friz Freleng, 1942).

10/21/11:  The Wolf Man (d. George Waggner, 1941) 12 people attended.  Preceded by the trailer for Abbott & Costello meet Frankenstein, the "Puttin' on the Ritz" clip from Young Frankenstein, a 13 minute version of the longer Wolf Man documentary found on the DVD, and the Walt Disney Silly Symphony The Big Bad Wolf (d. Burt Gillett, 1934).

10/29/11:  Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (d. Charles Barton, 1948)  10 people attended (some in costume!).  Preceded by trailer for Duck Soup, a chronological montage of scenes from Return of the Killer Tomatoes, an 11 minute version of the longer A&CmF documentary found on the DVD, and the "Animaniacs" cartoon Draculee, Draculaa (d. Michael Gerard, 1993).  (This movie night was re-scheduled from the night before, due to the World Series Game 7.)

11/18/11:  Duck Soup (d. Leo McCarey, 1933)  26 people attended.  Preceded by a slide show promo for the upcoming Best Films of 2011 event, and a presentation on Duck Soup and the Marx Brothers by guest presenter Sharon Authenrieth, and the Bugs Bunny cartoon The Heckling Hare (d. Tex Avery, 1941).

12/09/11:  The Best Films of 2011  14 people attended.  Twitch film critic and ZekeFilm co-founder Jim Tudor shared his Top 10 Films of 2011, as well as observations on patterns observed in the year in film.  (An event in conjunction with the Sunday morning class "Image & Meaning: A Look at Culture".)

01/06/12:  The Truman Show (d. Peter Weir, 1998)  11 people attended.  Preceded by a trailer for Being There and the Looney Tunes cartoon Duck Amuck (d. Chuck Jones, 1953).  (Film one of an eight-film series in conjunction with the Sunday morning class "Image & Meaning: A Look at Culture".)

01/13/12:  Being There (d. Hal Ashby, 1979)  19 people attended.  Preceded by a preview of "The Comedian" (part of next week's Highlights from the Golden Age of Television program), the Pink Panther cartoon Pink Posies (d. Hawley Pratt, 1967), a segment of the HBO film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (d. Stephen Hopkins, 2005) about making Being There, and a short clip of industry individuals remembering Hal Ashby, "Hal Ashby: The Homeless Spirit" (from the bonus disc of the Easy Riders, Raging Bulls documentary DVD).

01/20/12:  Highlights from the Golden Age of Television  9 people attended (inclement weather!).  Featuring the preserved kinoscope recordings of the live televised productions of Marty (d. Delbert Mann, 1953) & The Comedian (d. John Frankenheimer, 1957).  Each program was preceded by a making-of video introduction, and the night began with the trailer for Network.

01/27/12:  Network (d. Sidney Lumet, 1976)  22 people attended.  Preceded by the trailer for Good Night, and Good Luck, and a presentation on Network, including a look at Marty, and the 49th Academy Awards, at which Network was nominated in ten catagories.

02/03/12:  Good Night, and Good Luck.  (d. George Clooney, 2005)  22 people attended.  Preceded by the trailer for Page One, the "Animaniacs" cartoon Broadcast Nuisance, a clip from Clooney's first film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, demonstrating his use of live television storytelling techniques, a brief video about Walter Cronkite's denouncement of the Vietnam War, and George Clooney's 2006 Academy Awards acceptance speech video.