"So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation..." -2 Corinthians 5:17
The Cathedral hosts a Friday night film series September through May. The series features a variety of great films, designed to stimulate discussion on matters of spirituality and faith. "Plus, it's fun.," says Bill Hatley, a coordinator of the program. Co-coordinator Dave Eschenbach agrees. "For something to do downtown on a Friday night---this can't be beat"
Movie buffs and spiritual seekers can stay after the movie, if they wish, to join a discussion about the film's connection to the human quest to know God.
There is no charge. Come September, join us and bring your friends. We'll provide popcorn and drinks.
Second Fridays in 2010-2011:
October 8: The Soloist (2009)
Directed by Joe Wright
A Los Angeles journalist, looking for an article for the newspaper, meets and then befriends a homeless man who turns out to be a Julliard-trained violinist. True story based on the book by Steve Lopez about Nathaniel Ayers.
November 12: Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Directed by Stuart Rosenberg
Condemned to a Southern chain gang, a cool, gutsy man refuses to conform to life in a rural prison. Paul Newman is a classic anti-hero in one of the great Hollywood prison movies of the 1960s.
December 10: Babel (2006)
Directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different seemingly random families, all connected by a single gun.
January 14: Atonement (2007)
Directed by Joe Wright
Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
February 11: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
Directed by Peter Weir
During the Napoleonic Wars, a brash British captain pushes his ship and crew to their limits in pursuit of a formidable French war vessel around South America.
March 11: Flawless (2008)
Directed by Michael Radford
In London in 1960, a soon-to-retire janitor played by Michael Caine convinces a glass-ceiling constrained American executive to help him steal a handful of diamonds from their employer, the London Diamond Corporation, setting in motion a thrilling heist of dizzying proportions, the likes of which London has never seen.
April 8: Babe (1995)
Directed by Chris Noonan
Babe, a pig raised by sheepdogs, learns to herd sheep with a little help from Farmer Hoggett. Funny, poignant, and reflective of St. Pauls theology, Honor the lowly.
May 13: Bridge Over the River Kwai (1957)
Directed by David Lean
Often named as one of the top films of all time. After settling his differences with a Japanese POW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.
