Post by Tim Killmeyer on Jun 1, 2010 22:35:41 GMT -5
Attending the first two of these was how I got started doing the Theology of Movies program at my parish. It's been on the West Coast for a few years and is finally back on the East Coast.The theme this year is "Peace." I'm thiningk about riding the motorcycle up to New York in July to attend, but it's the weekend after our Pittsburgh Deacon retreat. I hope the wife doesn't mind!
sisterrose.wordpress.com/national-film-retreat-2010-july-16-18-2010-graymore-spiritual-life-center/
THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL NATIONAL FILM RETREAT
SEARCHING FOR PEACE
Fri. Jul.16th-Sun.Jul.18th
View and discuss four dramatic films to mine human and spiritual insights on the theme of peace.
Suitable for anyone 18+ who loves movies.
The fee includes the retreat materials, room and board. Participants are responsible for their travel.
GRAYMOOR
Spiritual Life Center
1320 Route 9, Garrison, NY 10524
(845)424-3671 x2111
www.graymoorcenter.org
Online registration will be available soon; please check “specialty events” www.graymoorcenter.org, otherwise, please download the brochure as noted above.
Retreat directors: Frank Frost, filmmaker; Rev. Greg Friedman, OFM, pastor, video and radio producer; Sr Hosea M. Rupprecht, Pauline Center for Media Studies.
The Lives of Others (2006, German with subtitles)
In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
Winner, Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, 2007
Marvin’s Room (1996)
Two sisters, estranged for 17 years, undertake an uneasy reunion when one of them is diagnosed with leukemia. As one sister and her boys are tested for compatibility of bone marrow for a critical transplant, the women take stock of their lives and rediscover the meaning of “family.”
Winner of Christopher Award 1997
Nominated for best actress, Diane Keaton, 1997
Departures (2008, Japanese with subtitles)
Daigo Kobayashi, a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved, answers a classified ad entitled “Departures” thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency, only to discover that the job is actually for a a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry into the next life. The film follows his profound and sometimes comical journey with death as he uncovers the wonder, joy and meaning of life and living.
Winner, Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, 2009
Winner, SIGNIS Award at Filmfest DC, 2009
King of Hearts (1966)
Alan Bates stars as a Scottish soldier in a French town that the Germans have booby-trapped with bombs. Assigned to disarm the bombs, Bates accidentally leaves open the door to the insane asylum, and the inmates playfully take over the town. This zany film raises the question of who is more insane, the asylum inmates, or the soldiers on the battlefield.
sisterrose.wordpress.com/national-film-retreat-2010-july-16-18-2010-graymore-spiritual-life-center/
THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL NATIONAL FILM RETREAT
SEARCHING FOR PEACE
Fri. Jul.16th-Sun.Jul.18th
View and discuss four dramatic films to mine human and spiritual insights on the theme of peace.
Suitable for anyone 18+ who loves movies.
The fee includes the retreat materials, room and board. Participants are responsible for their travel.
GRAYMOOR
Spiritual Life Center
1320 Route 9, Garrison, NY 10524
(845)424-3671 x2111
www.graymoorcenter.org
Online registration will be available soon; please check “specialty events” www.graymoorcenter.org, otherwise, please download the brochure as noted above.
Retreat directors: Frank Frost, filmmaker; Rev. Greg Friedman, OFM, pastor, video and radio producer; Sr Hosea M. Rupprecht, Pauline Center for Media Studies.
The Lives of Others (2006, German with subtitles)
In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
Winner, Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, 2007
Marvin’s Room (1996)
Two sisters, estranged for 17 years, undertake an uneasy reunion when one of them is diagnosed with leukemia. As one sister and her boys are tested for compatibility of bone marrow for a critical transplant, the women take stock of their lives and rediscover the meaning of “family.”
Winner of Christopher Award 1997
Nominated for best actress, Diane Keaton, 1997
Departures (2008, Japanese with subtitles)
Daigo Kobayashi, a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved, answers a classified ad entitled “Departures” thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency, only to discover that the job is actually for a a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry into the next life. The film follows his profound and sometimes comical journey with death as he uncovers the wonder, joy and meaning of life and living.
Winner, Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, 2009
Winner, SIGNIS Award at Filmfest DC, 2009
King of Hearts (1966)
Alan Bates stars as a Scottish soldier in a French town that the Germans have booby-trapped with bombs. Assigned to disarm the bombs, Bates accidentally leaves open the door to the insane asylum, and the inmates playfully take over the town. This zany film raises the question of who is more insane, the asylum inmates, or the soldiers on the battlefield.
