HB Report on the Film and Dinner Discussion
23 September 2024
The Humanists Brisbane Meet-Up has been growing through its new 2024 Film and Dinner Discussion program. Already there has been five events to date, and many more to come. We stopped going to the pub and started going to the Regal Twin cinema.
On Easter Monday, April 1 (2024), hosted by Professional Historian, Dr. Neville Buch, Humanists Brisbane went to the preview screening of Freud’s Last Session. The film shows Freud rejecting faith for more than scientific reasons. Young Freud’s loss of his nanny (who introduced him to Christianity) and his problematic relationship with his devout Jewish father contribute to his unbelief. The interloper in Freud’s self-discovery was the Christian apologist, C.S. Lewis. Lewis is also caught up in the journey of self-discovery, with Lewis’ post-traumatic stress disorder as a World War I combat veteran, becomes a focus. It is a generational story with J. R. R. Tolkien and the Inklings, and with Freud’s and Lewis’ relationships with other people, such as Freud’s lesbian daughter Anna, who is codependent upon her father.
Dinner and discussion were at the Haruya Izakaya Japanese Restaurant, Graceville.
On Sunday, May 12, Humanists Brisbane attended The Way, My Way. The film is the charming and captivating true story of a stubborn and amusingly self-centered Australian man who decides to walk the 800-kilometre-long Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route through Spain. He doesn’t know why he’s doing it, but one step at a time it will change him and his outlook on life forever.
Dinner and discussion were at Haruya Izakaya Japanese Restaurant, Graceville.
On Sunday, July 14, Humanists Brisbane saw Sidonie in Japan. Sidonie Perceval, an established French writer, is mourning her deceased husband. Invited to Japan for the reedition of her first book, she is welcomed by her local editor who takes her to Kyoto, the city of shrines and temples. As they travel together through the Japanese spring blossoms, she slowly opens up to him. But the ghost of her husband follows Sidonie: she will have to finally let go of the past to let herself love again.
Dinner and discussion were at Kafe Meze Graceville.
On Sunday, Sunday, August 11, Humanists Brisbane attended Iris and the Men. The Iris will be turning 50. It is a stranger who whispers the seed of an idea: “Take a lover”. So, she dares open Pandora’s box, and hesitantly registers herself on a dating app. Immediately, men start to appear, as if it were raining….
Dinner and discussion were at Always Thai, Graceville.
Last Sunday, Humanists Brisbane attended Ghostlight. A construction worker unexpectedly joins a local theatre’s production of Romeo and Juliet, the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life.
Dinner and discussion were at Kafe Meze Graceville.
There are many other films we are looking at:
The Critic, this Sunday, screens 1400 hr. It’s 1934, you’re in London. You go see a play in a theatre. You see an old man writing vigorously in a notebook. This man is a critic, somebody with the power to raise an actress’s career to stardom or send it crashing down around them.
Paul McCartney and Wings – One Hand Clapping, Tuesday, October 1, 1430. Filmed over four days at Abbey Road Studios in August 1974, the film provides an insight into the inner workings of the band as they work and play together in the studio. An afternoon tea discussion, home in time for HB Core Group online meeting.
Exhibition On Screen: My National Gallery London, Sunday, October 6, 1000. Note morning screening. No Discussion nor meal planned. I will be at The Philosophy Café at 1300 hr, at Brisbane Square Library.
From Hilde, With Love, [in German], Sunday, October 13, 1445. Warning this is a depressing war film.
The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall, Sunday, November 3, 1400. This was Ruth’s favourite opera and musical (for those of us not part of the elite). Gives me hebegebees.
OTHER FILMS AT OTHER FIVE-STAR CINEMAS
The Apprentice, AT NEW FARM, Thursday October 10, 1400, or 1900. The film examines Trump’s career as a real estate businessman in New York in the 1970s and 1980s.
My Hero Academia: You’re Next [in Japanese, Anime], AT NEW FARM, Thursday October 10, TBA. Izuku Midoriya, a U.A. High School student who aspires to be the best hero he can be, confronts the villain who imitates the hero he once admired.
School of Rock, AT NEW FARM, Sunday November 3, 1430. An American School Classic. I will probably not going as I am opposed to Jack Black’s negative view on Progressive Rock.
Jesus Christ Superstar Live, c. March 6, 2025. Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock classic Jesus Christ Superstar returns to its roots with this sensational performance filmed in the UK during the Live Arena Tour.
Humanists Brisbane members are welcome to provide feedback, on which events each may wish to attend. The events will be announced at the Humanists Brisbane Meet Up website. Each Film and Dinner Discussion will need a minimum of three persons to attend. All Welcome who are open to Humanist Valuations.
Neville Buch
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