Friday Movie Nights

Friends are warmly invited to enjoy a movie twice each month, at the meetinghouse, on the second & fourth Friday evenings of each month. We take turns choosing the movie. We gather starting around 7:00PM in Friendship Hall (downstairs) to chat and get our refreshments, then start the movie at 7:30 sharp. Snacks, friends, and movie ideas are welcome.

Friday, May 11: Black Narcissus (sponsored by Paul Barker).

(Directed by Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, who also directed our March 9th movie: A Matter of Life & Death.) “Sister Clodah is dispatched with four other nuns to establish a new convent far in the Himalayas. It’s a difficult journey and their new house is a ramshackle old building on the edge of a cliff that had been abandoned by a religious Brotherhood many years before. They soon establish a school and an infirmary though the local General’s agent, Mr. Dean, warns them against treating the deathly ill as they would no doubt be blamed if the patient doesn’t recover. The location, the culture and the mountain air all begin to have a strange effect on the Sisters. Sister Clodagh, who is also on her first assignment as Sister Superior, begins to remember a romance she had as a young woman before entering the sisterhood. Another however, becomes obsessed with Mr. Dean, which leads to tragedy.” — by garykmcd at IMDB.com. 1947, 100 min.

Friday, May 25: Iran, Yesterday & Today and Rick Steves’ Lectures: Iran. (sponsored by John Knox).

Rick Steves produces travel documentaries in the United Kingdom. One of Rick’s goals here is to defuse some of the tension we feel towards Iran by familiarizing us with its people and culture. We will first the 1-hour documentary, take a short break, and then show a 1-hour lecture by Steves given soon after making the film. 2009, 56 & 59 min.