The Justice & Peace Immigration Subcommittee will present God Grew Tired of Us, a 2006 documentary about three of the ‘Lost Boys of Sudan’. It chronicles the arduous journey of John Bul Dau, Daniel Pach and Panther Bior from their native Sudan to Ethiopia and eventually to the US. As young boys in the 1980s, […]
Many a writer or artist has longed to travel back in time to the sizzling Paris of the 1920s, to sip absinthe with Hemingway at Les Deux Magots or dine on choucroute garnie with Picasso at La Rotonde. Imagine the conversation! What has beguiled audiences about the Woody Allen movie “Midnight in Paris” is that the protagonist, Gil, a disenchanted […]
Ralph Fiennes steals the show in this witty, pretty caper from infamously quirky indie director Wes Anderson, who gave us Moonrise Kingdom and The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou. Fiennes plays M. Gustave, a concierge at the titular hotel in the 1930s, in a magical, fictional Alpine town that can only resist the oncoming war for […]
Presented by the St. Ignatius Green Team, Jon Shenk’s The Island President is the story of Nasheed is a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced—the literal survival of his country and everyone in it. After bringing democracy to the Maldives after thirty years of despotic rule, Mohamed Nasheed was faced […]
Nominated for 10 Academy Awards and winning 7 including Best Picture, “Going My Way” is the perfect film for you and your entire family to kick off your holiday season. Father Charles O’Malley (Bing Crosby) is an easy-going, golf-playing young priest whose entry into a tough neighborhood parish in midtown Manhattan is viewed with skepticism […]
Sponsored by the St. Ignatius Respect for Life Ministry Juno is the story of how the 16-year-old title character and her best friend, Paulie Bleeker, start dating. First they’re friends. Then they have a baby. Then they decide to go out. The journey, which is primarily Juno’s, takes her from a convenience store bathroom stall, where […]
The National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton: 339 S. Seton Ave., Emmitsburg, MD 21727; April 19, 11am; Free; On Good Friday, visit the Shrine to see this movie of the last days of Jesus’s life. It takes place in the Shrine’s Visitor Center theater. This moving film is rated R for the graphic portrayal […]
The National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, 339 S. Seton Ave., Emmitsburg; 11 a.m.; free; Good Friday screening of film in Visitor Center theater; rated R for graphic portrayal of Jesus’ last days; 1:30 p.m. Stations of the Cross, 3 p.m. Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion; setonshrine.org