While I'm here, a couple of things that are coming up:
This Sunday (14th) in the evening, a Film Club are going to see 'Looking for Eric', Ken Loach's new film. its a 15, containing 'very strong language and soft drug use', so be warned, but it also tackles the issues of family life and the struggles of parenthood, drink and football.
According to the director 'it's about friendship and about coming to terms with who you are. It's a film against individualism: we’re stronger as a gang than we are on our own. You can be pretentious about this but it is about the solidarity of friends, which is epitomised in a crowd of football supporters. But also where you work and the people you work alongside. Although that seems an almost trite observation, it's still not the spirit of the age. Or it hasn't been the spirit of the age for the last 30 years, where people are your competitors, not your comrades.'
we're going to watch the film at Barnstaple Cinema, then go for a drink and a chat at Wetherspoons. We'll hope to talk about how things within the film sit alongside our own lives and those of people in the world around us, and consider how the Christian faith speaks of the issues raised within the film.
if you are interested in coming, let me know.
Andy
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gather in the city
15 hours ago
Ha! Typically the one time i get organised, the world does something different. we won't be watching 'Looking for Eric' because its not showing... instead we're going to see 'Last Chance Harvey', a slightly more romantic take on failed relationships and whether there is hope for even the most jaded Dustin Hoffman character... should still be good, just a bit less Cantona!
ReplyDeletehad a really good time- about 12 of us came, we chatted till almost 11, sometimes about the film, sometimes about other stuff. the occasional link with the Christian faith was made...
ReplyDeletelooking forward to next month, hope people can come along.
A.