Friday evenings in Lent, beginning March 14, 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, our series is based around this theme: Monstrosity!
We’ll explore together the following questions: how are monsters made? Or would it be better to ask: how are monsters projected? How is ‘otherness’ constructed, categorized, and construed as monstrosity? Is the other-as-monster a mirror of a community’s fear, a mirror of a community’s deepest most alienated self? How can we move from the rejection and alienation of the ‘other’ to real celebration of the beauty of uniqueness?
This movie group, led by Fr. Mark Schultz, meets on Friday evenings in Lent (beginning March 14). The evening begins with a meal at 6:00pm, 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, thought-provoking. Here’s the schedule (subject to change!):
March 14: Frankenstein (dir: James Whale, 1931, NR)
March 21: M (dir: Fritz Lang, 1931, PG-13)
March 28: The Elephant Man (dir: David Lynch, 1980, PG)
April 4: Parasite (dir: Bong Joon Ho, 2019, R)
April 11: There Will Be Blood (dir: Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007, R)
You must register to attend!
