Our Film Club represents a fun, friendly and sociable night out, meeting regularly to watch some great movies on a big screen in our Parish Hall on Towers Avenue. Entry is free and all are welcome. Tables and chairs are arranged so everyone can sit in comfort and enjoy any food and drink they might bring along.
On Friday 10th April at 7pm Film Club will be showing The Gospel According to Matthew, directed in 1964 by Pier Paolo Pasolini and starring Enrique Irazoqui, Susanna Pasolini, Settimio Di Porto and Margherita Caruso. With dialogue taken from Matthew’s Gospel and a cast of non-professional actors, it is a masterpiece of Italian neorealist cinema, revered by critics and directors alike, eschewing piety, sentimentality or theatricality to enact Matthew’s account of the life of Christ, from nativity to resurrection, with an engrossing immediacy and raw emotional and imaginative power. Come and see a cinema classic that was described by the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano in 2015 as “probably the best film about Jesus ever made in the history of cinema”. (In Italian with subtitles.)
On 22nd May, as part of the Jesmond festival, we will be showing Carol Reed’s 1949 noir classic The Third Man, starring Joseph Cotten, Trevor Howard and Orson Welles.
Further screenings are 26 June, 4 September, 23 October, 27 November.
Please check with the Parish Newsletter for selections and details.
Martin Wheeler
Sunday Mass: Saturday 4pm, Sunday 10am 