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. All screenings are held at 6:30 PM in the Blue Room, located next door to the church office.  If you have any questions, please contact Jim Tudor for more information at jmtudor@sbcglobal.net.

Upcoming Movie Nights:

Sunday, March 14:  Rebel Without A Cause (1955)

Sunday, March 21:  La Strada (1954)

Sunday, March 28:  Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)

Sunday, April 11:  Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Sunday, April 18:  Wings of Desire (1987)


AND DON'T FORGET:  The weekly class, "GOD & FILM: REVOLUTIONS, REDEMPTIONS, AND PRATFALLS (not necessarily in that order...)".  Class is held Sunday mornings at 9:15 AM in the Blue Room, and will run through mid-April.  Subjects include historical and Christian perspectives on silent comedy (Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton), the changing societal attitudes that coincided with the certain technical innovations for film in the 1920s, as well as explorations of Japanese film, "the second Italian filmmaking renaissance" (Fellini, Antonioni), Hollywood in the 1950s, and "the new German Cinema" of the late 1960s and '70s.

Accompanying this class are WEEKLY film screenings (listed above), each entry reflecting that morning's topic.  Movie night attendees need not attend the class, nor vice-versa, however attending both will be significantly more enriching.

Please make plans to attend both the weekly GOD & FILM classes, as well as the accompanying weekly Film Series entries. 
   
  

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 .