Here at CULTPLEX we've long regarded movie-going as a religious experience and the cinema as a sacred temple of worship. Week in, week out people don their best to celebrate the gods of cinema on the big screen as they intended us to. We could never quite put a name on this but recently one of our religion's patron saints Greta Gerwig talked of the Movie Church she assembled before her most recent sermon Barbie, to prepare her disciples for telling her next great story.
We are excited to bring our own MOVIE CHURCH as a regular monthly slot at the cinema (on Sundays, of course). Here you will find a celebration of the very best sermons to be committed to film, that typify the power of movies and deserve to be worshipped at the altar of big screen cinema. Expect introductory words from our clergy, a church raffle for film prizes and a truly holy cinematic experience.
See you at Church!
Next up:
Sept: The Parallax View (Alan J. Pakula, 1974)
Oct: The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955) + Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960)
Previous sermons:
2026:
January - Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
February - Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)
March - Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda, 1962)
April - Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976)
May - Memories of Murder (Bong Joon Ho, 2003)
June - Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)
July - Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)
August - The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
2025:
January - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman, 1975)
February - Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
March - Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud, 2007)
April - Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)
May - Scarface (Brian De Palma, 1983)
July - There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
August - In The Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai, 2000)
September - Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
November - Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
December- 2046 (Wong Kar Wai, 2004)
2024:
January - Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011)
February - Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater, 1995)
March - Whiplash (Damien Chazelle, 2014)
April - Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
May - The Good, the bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1968)
June - Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
July - Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, 2009)
August - Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
October - Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1934)
November - Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1955)
December - Tokyo Godfathers (Saroshi Kon, 2003)
2023:
September - Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, 2017)
October - Pi (Darren Aronofsky, 1999)
December - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black, 2005
