Friday evenings in Lent, RSVP to join us for the return of Lenten Movie Nights! Following a vegetarian meal (for those abstaining from meat on Fridays), we’ll engage with a curated series of films both classic and contemporary. This year, based on suggestions and responses to last years’ cinematic excursion, our series is based around this theme—The Tree of the Knowledge: Cinematic Visions of Good and Evil.
We’ll explore together the following questions: are innocence and goodness the same? Is evil depicted as a force, a person, an illness, a situation or pattern, an archetype…and what do these depictions say about the film-makers’ perspectives on evil and on goodness? How does the good show up—what does it look like? And how might the Church respond to or critique these visions?
On Fridays in Lent, the evening begins with a meal at 6pm, followed by the film at 6:30pm, with a discussion afterward.
Our films, drawn in part from suggestions from the previous series’ participants, are challenging, beautiful, harrowing, and thought-provoking.
Here’s the schedule (subject to change!):
- February 16: Being There (dir: Hal Ashby, 1979, PG)
- February 23: Legend (dir: Ridley Scott, 1985, PG)
- March 1: The Innocents (dir: Jack Clayton, 1961, NR)
- March 8: Throne of Blood (dir: Akira Kurosawa, 1957, NR)
- March 15: No Country for Old Men (dir: Joel and Ethan Coen, 2007, R)
- March 22: The Zone of Interest (dir: Jonathan Glazer, 2023, PG-13, subject to availability!)
