Film Study Group - Wings of Desire
New date
Online via Zoom.
Please join the Stanford Catholic Film Group on Monday, September 29, to discuss Wings of Desire (1987). A romantic fantasy film directed by Wim Wenders, the film is about invisible, immortal angels who populate Berlin and listen to the thoughts of its human inhabitants, comforting the distressed. It appears in Roger Ebert’s Great Movies list, and won for Best Director at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.
It was remade in the US as “City of Angels” which you can watch for extra credit!
Everyone is invited!
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Reading Group
7:30 PM (Pacific Time) Online via Zoom
The next meeting is to discuss Alice McDermott’s novel After This. A Zoom link will be sent closer to the date to those on the emailing list. Anyone interested who is not on the contact list can contact Albert Gelpi (agelpi@stanford.edu).
Film Study Group - A Matter of Life and Death (Copy)
Online via Zoom.
Please join the Stanford Catholic Film Group on Monday, August 25, to discuss A Matter of Life and Death (1946). A British fantasy, comedic, romantic drama film written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, the film stars David Niven, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, Kim Hunter and Marius Goring. The discussion will include how films like this have formed popular images of the afterlife.
Everyone is invited!
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Volunteer @ Common Roots Farm (Copy)
Join fellow community members from Catholic Community at Stanford as we head to Common Roots Farm in Santa Cruz for a morning of volunteering.
This opportunity is open to undergraduate and graduate students, young adults, and permanent community members. Work may include planting, harvesting, working soil, clearing beds, petting chickens, feeding sheep, or whatever needs to be done on the farm that day. The morning will begin at 9:30am and end around 12:30pm. We will provide lunch to those who wish to stay. We are unable to provide rides to the farm but will help volunteers coordinate carpooling. Additional details will be provided to those who sign up.
Sign-up by August 14 >> [Google Forms] to allow us time to plan lunch and coordinate rides. Sign ups after this date are ok if you plan to arrange your own transportation.
Contact Eric Lebel (elebel@stanford.edu) with any questions.