TrinityFilm Schedule
Special Screening & Discussion
The Help
Saturday, February 18 - 6:30 pm
TrinityFilm and the Moravian Team for Dismantling Racism will sponsor a free screening of the 2011 movie The Help, followed by a panel-led discussion.
The film, and adaptation of the best-selling book by the same name, takes place in Jackson, Mississippi, during the Civil rights era. The film received four Academy Awards nominations, and won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. The film is rated PG-13 for thematic material.
Appalling, entertaining, touching and perhaps even a bit healing, The Help is an old-fashioned grand yarn of a film, the sort we rarely get these days. - Tim Long, Detroit News
A high-functioning tearjerker, but the catharsis it offers feels glib and insufficient, a Barbie Band-Aid on the still-raw wound of race relations in America. - Dana Stevens, Slate
In some ways, crude and obvious, but it opens up a broad new swath of experience on the screen, and parts of it are so moving and well acted that any objections to what's second-rate seem to matter less as the movie goes on. - David Denby, New Yorker
Lord, Save Us From Your Followers
Not Yet Scheduled
WE MAY AGAIN BRING THIS MOVIE BACK DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND!!!
If you were to meet ten average Americans on the street, nine of them would say they believe in God. So why is the Gospel of Love dividing America?
Dan Merchant put on his bumper-sticker-clad jumpsuit and decided to find the reason. After talking with scores of men and women on streets all across the nation, and also interviewing many well-known activists in today's "Culture Wars," Dan realized that the public discussion of faith doesn't have to be contentious.
As discussion of religion floods the media, the rhetoric is divisive, hyper, and most often, angry. With humor more common in a comedy-sketch program than a documentary, Merchant brings the sensibilities of someone who is deeply concerned with how his faith is being represented by others. Lord, Save Us provides a provocative, funny, and redemptive discussion that is sure to continue long after the credits run.
Merchant sits down for interviews with well-known people on all sides of this great divide, including best-selling author William Paul Young (The Shack), comedian/politician Al Franken, former "Religious Right" Senator Rick Santorum, noted "liberal evangelical" Tony Campolo, conservative radio host Michael Reagan, and racial reconciliation activist Dr. John Perkins.
If that's not divergent enough, other features include Bono, Rick Warren, Bill Maher, James Dobson, George Clooney, Jerry Falwell, Stephen Colbert, Ann Coulter, Pat Robertson, Lewis Black, Tony Perkins, Monty Python, and even Stewie from "Family Guy"… along with many others.
Add to that the nationwide man-on-the-street interviews with "Bumper-Sticker Man," the Culture Wars game show, the "renaming" of St. Paul to New Leningrad, and a controversial and moving "Confession Booth" at Portland's Gay Pride celebration, and Lord, Save Us From Your Followers delves into religious hot-button issues with candor, humor, and balance.
Engaging, unpredictable, and challenging, Lord, Save Us From Your Followers will change the way you talk about faith!
"Michael Moore meets Monty Python -- A humorous and heartfelt examination of the culture wars." - USA Today
"Incisive and fair, goofily funny and deeply moving." - Christianity Today
