St. Andrew's Summer Film Series

Four Great Movies of Faith
Wednesday evenings from 6:15-9:00 p.m.
Beginning June 2nd
Time: 3 Wednesday Evenings 6:15-9:00 p.m.
1 Sunday Afternoon after church service, with lunch at intermission

Wednesday, June 2
THEY KILLED SISTER DOROTHY: The 2008 documentary directed by Daniel Junge,
about the trials of the men responsible for the murder of Daytonian, Sister Dorothy Stang, targeted for trying to save the Amazonian rainforest and help the peasants living in it. Remarkable for capturing the sense of entitlement of the powerful ranchers ultimately brought before the Brazilian courts for paying some poor men to shoot her.

Wednesday, July 7
DOUBT: The 2008 film written and directed by Patrick Shaneley about a priest in a Catholic school suspected of pedophilia. The story raises questions about how to proceed when sexual
abuse is suspected. Is the suspicion justified or is it based on an overactive imagination? Does one
destroy someone's reputation or career on mere suspicion? Does one just keep quiet?

Wednesday, August 4
THE APOSTLE: The 2008 movie, directed by Robert Duvall, who also stars in it as an
enthusiastic, charismatic, evangelical preacher, who kills his assistant in a fit of rage after discovering his own wife is having an affair with the man. He flees punishment to set up a small church in an out-of-the-way Louisiana town, but knows that at any moment the past may catch up with him. The work explores his complex character, opposing his sincere apostolic fervor with his very human passions of sexual desire and anger.

Sunday, August 15 after church service with lunch provided at intermission.
THAIS (2009) Metropolitan Opera extravaganza starring Thomas Hampson as an early
Christian, cenobitic monk who leaves his desert retreat to go to the great city, Alexandria, convinced that he can turn the glamorous courtesan (Renee Fleming} from her life of sin and pleasure. The story, based on the novel by Anatole France, opposes the hedonistic and ascetic, the physical and the spiritual, at their most extreme. In addition to great music (Massenet) and wonderful singers in parts seemingly made for their talents, Ms. Fleming's costumes were designed for her by Christian LaCroix, and the Met dancers are extraordinary. As former parishioner Peg Cooper said, it's “everything grand opera should be!”