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CityChurch Fort Lauderdale “Who is it that has lured me into the world?... And if I am to be compelled to take part in it, where is the director?”- Kierkegaard
CityChurch Fort Lauderdale Service Project :: 10.28, 7-9p @ First Lutheran - Meal and Worship for the Homeless. To volunteer, contact Dan (dan@citychurchftl.com).
CityChurch Fort Lauderdale "My work can't be anything other than a testimony of what I am looking for in life. It is a mirror of my searching." - Federico Fellini
Location:Cinema Paradiso
Time:7:00PM Monday, October 19th
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The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival presents “Here and There” sponsored by CityChurch Fort Lauderdale.
Following the film, from 9:15-11:30pm, CityChurch will host a free party on the Paradiso Patio. with food and drinks, including -- in honor of the film-- some Serbian specialties.
Join us and invite your f...riends as we celebrate the festival, the city and its culture.
"Here & There"
Set in both New York and Belgrade, this dramedy from Writer/director Darko Lungulov is built upon a dangerously-close-to-formulaic premise that quickly blazes a unique path. Archetypal New Yorker Robert (David Thornton) is a down-on-his-luck, cynical and jaded 52-year-old sax player with Ratso Rizzo bravado (replete with "I'm walkin' here!" moment) and a permanently unkempt mane of black hair and three-day stubble. Kicked out of his apartment, he meets Serbian man-with-van Branko, who soon offers our disheveled hero a chance to earn $5000 by marrying his fiancée in Belgrade, and bringing her back to America. Robert hops a plane to Belgrade and is deposited at the apartment of Olga, Branko's gracious and comely mother. While Branko tries desperately to scrape together the rest of the money in New York, Robert finds Olga's company revitalizing.
Lungulov found inspiration for the film after as mover in New Yprk City, according to an indieWIRE interview:
“The story of “Here and There” is loosely based on my 5-year stint as a “man with a van” in NYC. While studying film at City College of New York I supported myself driving a van and carrying boxes and furniture every day before and after film classes. Every time my beeper would go off, I would run out of class to make a phone call to my prospective clients. My professors and fellow students thought I was a drug dealer.
“I entered many people’s lives as 'move'” in New York City. I always knew that this could be a good base for a story. In 2003, I returned to live in Serbia. Soon enough, I learned about the harsh reality of daily life of this “country in transition.” Even though all the wars ended, nearly all the young people there were still longing to live somewhere else. At same time, I remember how I longed to be back in Serbia. That irony inspired me to write ‘Here And There.’”
David Thornton, in the lead role of Robert, is best known for ‘Civil Action’ (costars with John Travolta), and for TV Show ‘Law and Order’ and roles in Nick Cassavetes’ films ‘John Q’ (with Denzel Washington), “The Notebook”. and “Sister’s Keeper” .
Thorton’s wife, award-winning artist Cyndi Lauper, makes a special appearance in the film and contributes and an original song to the soundtrack.
Both Lungulov and Thorton are scheduled to attend the screening.
The film won recently won awards for Best New Filmmaker and Best New York Narrative at Tribeca Film Film Festival.
Language: English & Serbian w/English sub-titles
Running Time: 90 min
Reviews:
“‘Here and There,’ a deadpan romantic comedy by Serbian director Darko Lungulov defy genre pigeonholing...The picture takes small, surprising turns that remind you how much a director can accomplish with little more than an original sensibility and some fine actors. David Thornton, playing a character whose alienation from the world sometimes borders on autism, anchors the movie through the subtlest of means – even his haystack haircut has things to tell us. For reasons almost entirely mercurial, it’s a mesmerizing performance.” - MTV
“Here and There represents the best kind of indie filmmaking—it takes a modest but timeless premise and builds something from it that is quietly remarkable, a story both reaffirming and fresh in its message about what it means to be human.” - Firefox news
“Laid-back character study accrues small epiphanies with patient care, its mordant Eastern European humor tempered by a gentler sense of postwar absurdity...Slight, extremely likable pic, a sly variant on recent immigrant movies like "The Visitor". - Variety
“Writer/director Darko Lungulov examines the feeling of being a fish out of water in both his home country of Serbia and his adopted New York, where he lived for more than a decade. Lungulov balances two tones in his two storylines—the breath-of-fresh-air sensation in Serbia plays even stronger against the endless frustrating setbacks in New York. Being in chaotic Belgrade is a shot in the arm for a cynical, seen-it-all New Yorker, and actor David Thornton has Robert evolve physically from scruffy and sunken to more clean-cut and pert during the course of his stay. As Branko, meanwhile, Branislav Trifunovic embodies the mix of hope and fear that fills an immigrant trying to carve out his place in a new land.” - Tibeca Film Festival
Tickets for the film are $10 and can be purchased at the Cinema Paradiso box office or online (see link below).
And don't forget to join us on the patio for the After Party following the film!
CityChurch Fort Lauderdale "The first way in which a new generation takes control of society is through the culture; the arts, films, books, music. Through all entertainment. People who feel safe and secure in the existing society are frightened by ideas that threaten thier power." - Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club (See the film 7pm tonigh...t at Cinema Paradiso. Discussion to follow)
CityChurch Fort Lauderdale It's been ten years...it's time we talk about Fight Club.
(Tell everyone!)
Location:Cinema Paradiso
Time:7:00PM Monday, September 21st
CityChurch Fort Lauderdale “All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us, and the change is painful.” - Flannery O’Connor, The Habit of Being
CityChurch Fort Lauderdale Last week's sermon and this week's bulletin are now available. Join us this Sunday as we be begin a new series: “The Gospel According to Jacob”.
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CityChurch Fort Lauderdale Community Groups start Sept 15th! Groups meet weekly Mon-Thurs. Find one that best suits you and your schedule. Get all the details and sign up here...
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COMMUNITY GROUPS | STARTING THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 14TH Community Groups are gatherings of 12-15 people who meet weekly throughout our city for the purpose
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