We will watch Grave of the Fireflies at 7:30PM on Saturday, June 11 at Lukas’.

Synopsis:
Setsuko and Seita are brother and sister living in wartime Japan. After their mother is killed in an air raid they find a temporary home with relatives. Having quarreled with their aunt they leave the city and make their home in an abandoned shelter. While their father’s destiny remains unknown, the two must depend on each other to somehow keep a roof over their heads and food in their stomachs. When everything is in short supply, they face daily hunger, and their only entertainment is the light of the fireflies. More from IMDB

Featuring:
Tsutomu Tatsumi …. Seita
Ayano Shiraishi …. Setsuko
Yoshiko Shinohara …. Mother
Akemi Yamaguchi …. Aunt

May 14 - Children Underground @ Baeders‘
June 11 - Grave of the Fireflies @ Lukas’
June 25 - Mystic River @ Martins’
July 9 - Rabbit-Proof Fence @ Drakes’

All films are on Saturdays at 7:30. Refreshments are provided, and the atmosphere is casual and conversational.

Saturday, April 30, 2005@7:30PM
David & Dawn Drake’s home
615 W. Nickerson #4
Seattle, WA 98119 (map)
206-216-3950

Synopsis:
A caring nun receives a desperate letter from a death row inmate trying to find help to avoid execution for murder. Over the course of the time to the convict’s death, the nun begins to show empathy, not only with the pathetic man, but also with the victims and their families. In the end, that nun must decide how she will deal with the paradox of caring for that condemned man while understanding the heinousness of his crimes. More from IMDB

Starring:
Susan Sarandon …. Sister Helen Prejean
Sean Penn …. Matthew Poncelet
Directed by Tim Robbins
Full cast list from IMDB

Love, Actually - Martins’, Apr 16
Dead Man Walking - Moved to Drakes’, Apr 30 (moved again)
Children Underground - Baeders’, May 14

Saturday, April 16@7:30PM

The Martins’
640 SW 129th St
Burien, WA 98146

Synopsis:
Love, Actually follows a web-like pattern of inter-related, losely related and unrelated stories of a dozen or more various individuals with their love lives, or lack of them. The central character is the new bachelor prime minister David (Hugh Grant) who cannot express his growing feelings for his new personal assistant Natalie (Martine McCutcheon). The prime minister’s older sister Karen (Emma Thompson) slowly grows aware of her husband Harry’s (Alan Rickman) flirtation with an office worker named Mia (Heike Makatsch). Karen’s friend Daniel (Liam Neeson) is a recently widowed writer whose 11-year-old son asks for love advice about a girl he has a crush on. Meanwhile, Jamie (Colin Firth) is another writer who leaves his girlfriend after catching her cheating on him and travels to France to write a novel where he pursues a possible romance with his non-English speaking Portuguese maid Aurelia (Lucia Moniz). Also, Harry’s American secretary Sarah (Laura Linney) questions a romance she pursues with the office hunk Karl (Rodrigo Santoro), but her personal family problems get in the way. Other secondary characters involve a photographer who pursues his best friend’s new wife Juliet (Keira Knightley); a pair of movie stand-ins, named John and Judy, who grow closer after their simulated love scenes; a libidinous chum who wants to travel to Wisconsin, USA to score with women; and a burned-out former rock star named Billy Mack (Bill Nighy) who is the main connection between all stories involved. More from IMDB

Lukas’ Apartment
Saturday, April 2@7:30 PM
8542 Nesbit Ave. N Apt. B
Seattle, WA 98103

Synopsis:
A priest on the lam takes up with a traveling band of actors, who then discover a murder has occurred and try to solve it by recreating the crime in a play. More from IMDB

Starring:
Paul Bettany …. Nicholas
Marián Aguilera …. Nicholas’ Lover
Trevor Steedman …. Jealous Husband
Simon McBurney …. Stephen
Tom Hardy …. Straw
Brian Cox …. Tobias
Willem Dafoe …. Martin

Because time is short for seeing Hotel Rwanda in theaters, and because this film sheds important light on the present conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan, we are postponing our screening of The Reckoning until April 16.

We will meet at the Drakes’ apartment in Queen Anne at 6PM and go to the 6:40 screening of Hotel Rwanda at Loew’s Uptown Cinema. After the film, we will return to the Drakes’ for coffee, snacks, and discussion.

To learn more about the ongoing genocide in Darfur, visit Passion of the Present. To learn more about the connection between Hotel Rwanda and Darfur, visit www.SaveDarfur.org.

David & Dawn Drake’s home
615 W. Nickerson #4
Seattle, WA 98119 (map)
206-216-3950

Tickets will be paid for by Seattle Metro Church, so you won’t need to bring money. We will carpool to the theater to make parking easier. If the 6PM time is difficult, though, feel free to meet us at the theater a little before 6:40.

Synopsis:
Don Cheadle stars in the true-life story of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsis refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda. More from IMDB.

April 16 - Love, Actually - The Martins’
April 30 - TBA - The Baeders’

We are also planning to attend an in-theater screening of Hotel Rwanda while it is still in theaters. Info will be posted here as soon as it becomes available.

At the Baeders’ new house:
2907 S Byron St
Seattle, WA 98144

Synopsis:
Soft-spoken 15-year old Leland Fitzgerald (Gosling) commits a seemingly senseless murder that shocks his community, affecting both his victim’s family and his own. Arrested and imprisoned in a juvenile detention facility, Leland comes in contact with an aspiring writer and prison teacher, Pearl Madison (Cheadle). As Pearl delves into the mystery of Leland’s crime, he also sees the chance for a career-making book as the boy’s estranged father is the world-renowned author, Albert Fitzgerald (Spacey). From IMDB

Starring:
Don Cheadle …. Pearl Madison
Ryan Gosling …. Leland P. Fitzgerald
Chris Klein …. Allen Harris
Jena Malone …. Becky Pollard
Lena Olin …. Marybeth Fitzgerald
Kevin Spacey …. Albert T. Fitzgerald

We will watch Contact, starring Jodie Foster, on Saturday, February 19th at the Martins’.

640 SW 129th St
Burien, WA 98146

From IMDB:

Starring:
Jena Malone …. Young Ellie
David Morse …. Ted Arroway
Jodie Foster …. Ellie Arroway
Geoffrey Blake …. Fisher
William Fichtner …. Kent
Sami Chester …. Vernon
Timothy McNeil …. Davio
Laura Elena Surillo …. Cantina Woman
Matthew McConaughey …. Palmer Joss
Tom Skerritt …. David Drumlin

Synopsis:
Since childhood, Ellie Arroway has been interested in space and radio signals, spurred on by the death of her parents early in life. As an adult she is a scientist who listens to space for signals from the stars, however her programme has it’s funding cut and she finds herself looking for private funding. Four years after securing such funding, she discovers a mathematical signal from space. As the Government gets involved the signal reveals more information - thousands of pages of mechanical schematics. As the design is built, the world reacts to news of alien life, and Ellie is transformed by her indescribable experience of another world.