More Movie Nights

Now Showing Fridays & Sundays

Please join us on Friday and Sunday evenings in St. Luke’s Parish House for Movie Night! On Fridays we will gather in the Parish House at 6:30 pm and start the movie at 7:00 pm. Sundays have been added to the schedule ~ and we will gather at 6:00 pm and start the movie at 6:30 pm. Please bring your own refreshments to share. 

For more information on Movie Nights, please contact the Parish Office at office@stlukesgranville.org / 740-587-0167

Next Showing Friday, April 24 | What's Up Doc (1972)
Starring Barbara Steisand, Ryan O’Neil, and Madeleine Kahn. Directed by Peter Bogdonovich. An American screwball comedy. It was intended to pay homage to comedy films of the 1920’s, ’30s, and ’40s.

Sunday, April 26 | Seabiscuit (2003)
Starring Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, and Chris Cooper. Directed by Gary Ross. Based on the best-selling book “Seabiscuit: An American Legend” by Laura Hillenbrand. A drama film that tells the inspiring true story of an undersized racehorse who became a symbol of hope during the Great Depression.

Sunday, May 3 | Wild River (1960)
Starring Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, and Jo Van Fleet. Directed by Elia Kazan. A TVA bureaucrat comes to the river to do what none of his predecessors have been able to do -evict a stubborn octogenarian from her island before the rising waters engulf her.

Sunday, May 10 | Bitter Rice (1949)
Starring Silvana Mangano, Vittorio Gassman, and Doris Dowling. Produced by Dino De Laurentis and Directed by Giuseppe DeSanis. This film is in Italian but with English Subtitles. Socially conscious look at hardships endured by underpaid fieldworkers, it’s a melodrama tinged with sex and violence. Set in Northern Italy’s Po Valley.

Sunday, May 17 | Edge of the City (1957)
Starring John Cassavetes, Jack Warden, and Sidney Poitier. A story of Longshoremen along the waterfront on the west side of Manhattan

Friday, May 22 | A Face In The Crowd (1957)
Starring Patricia Neal, Andy Griffith (his film debut). Directed by Elia Kazan. A prescient sharp satire on media, celebrity, and demagoguery.

Sunday, May 24 | The Straight Story (1986)
Starring John Cassavetes, Jack Warden, and Sidney Poitier. A story of Longshoremen along the waterfront on the west side of Manhattan

Sunday, May 31 | Double Feature Night: The Bronze Buckaroo & Harlem Rides the Range (Both 1939)                                                                                        
Starring Herbert Jeffrey, as singing cowboy Bob Blake, and Spencer Williams. Both films are directed by Richard C. Kahn. Notable for their all-black casts and crews, both films are considered historic as among the first films made by African Americans for African American audiences.

Lara Benschoter