Free Sneak Preview Movie Event: Creation

Jan 11 Mon 7:00 PM
Location
AMC Empire 25

234 West 42nd St.
(Btwn 8th ave and Broadway)
New York, NY 10036
1-888-AMC 4FUN

Estimated attendance
 33  people attended.
5.00 5.004 (4 ratings)

Who organized?
Michael De Dora Jr.

IMPORTANT: A 'YES' RSVP HERE DOES *NOT* GUARANTEE A SEAT!

To attend, you *must* send an e-mail to [masked] and receive a confirmation that you have a seat. You must identify yourself as belonging to "Reasonable New York". Then, RSVP here so that we have a count of how many of our members are going.

>> Special Screening <<

Center for Inquiry | New York City and the other groups within the Reasonable New York consortium, along with local related organizations, have been invited to a special complimentary pre-release screening of:

Creation, the True Story of Charles Darwin

Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly

Official Movie Site


The theater holds 300, with at least 125 spots reserved for RNY member groups.

Synopsis

CREATION is the powerful and true-life tale of Charles Darwin and the most explosive idea in history. A world-renowned scientist, and a dedicated family man struggling to accept his daughter’s death, Darwin is torn between his love for his deeply religious wife and his own growing belief in a world where God has no place. He finds himself caught in a battle between faith and reason, love and truth.

This is the extraordinary story of Charles Darwin and how his master-work “The Origin of Species” came to light. It tells of a global revolution played out in the confines of a small English village; a passionate marriage torn apart by the most provocative idea in history – evolution; and a theory saved from extinction by the logic of a child.

Charles Darwin is played by acclaimed British actor Paul Bettany (The Da Vinci Code, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, A Beautiful Mind, Inkheart), and his wife Emma Darwin is played by his real-life wife, Academy Award winner Jennifer Connelly (Blood Diamond, A Beautiful Mind, Requiem For a Dream, The Day the Earth Stood Still).

Directed by Jon Amiel (Entrapment, Copycat, Sommersby, The Core,) from a screenplay by John Collee (Master and the Commander: The Far Side of the World, Happy Feet), CREATION is based upon Randal Keynes’ book, ‘Annie’s Box’, about the life of his great great grandfather, Charles Darwin. - Rotten Tomatoes

Advance Reviews

This gentle, heartfelt and well-acted film about Charles Darwin and his personal agony preceding the 1859 publication of On the Origin of Species does not shy away from the issues. But it personalises them, and places them in a new context. - Guardian (U.K.)

Thoughtful, moving, and Bettany is brilliant. To be reminded of the power of love to redeem and repair, catch Creation. - Empire Magazine

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  • macadoo
    Posted Jan 11, 2010 10:20 PM
    macadoo
    To attend, you *must* send an e-mail to [masked] and receive a confirmation that you have a seat. You must identify yourself as belonging to "Reasonable New York". Then, RSVP here so that we have a count of how many of our members are going. Very clear instructions, but a number of us with confirmations were denied tickets until well after the show started, at which point they just let us all go up, missing the beginning and starting off on a very bad note.

Who attended?

  • 33 attendees
    • “ Movie was great, but the ticketing process was a disaster. Got there at 6:45, and was told (with about 10 others) that there were no more tickets. The original invite said, 'you are not confirmed until you receive an e-Mail notification', which we all had. Then it said that seating was unassigned and on a first come, first served basis - but nothing about limited tickets. After about 20 minutes into the show, someone came down and said we could all go up to the theather, and if we could find a seat we could see the show. It appeared that there were seats for everyone who came up, but we had all missed the beginning even though we were there on time. Very poorly managed. ”
    • Josh Karpf (+1 guest)
      “ Great movie that packed the house, and a good panel discussion from the author and director. But the Interfaith Center director's we-are-made-of-star-stuff and religion-survives-the-death-of-children patter was irrelevant to the movie. The mostly freethought audience deserved a better panelist to defend theism. A religious critic, too, says she's an intellectual lightweight; see: http://www.touchs... ”
    • “ This was a wonderful movie. You get to see a side of Darwin that doesn't come through in his work. ”
    • “ I loved the movie, from the ideas it presented, to way it presented them. It was beautifully shot, expertly cast, and incredibly moving. The panel discussion afterward was very interesting! ”
    • John Huntington (+1 guest)
    • Ryan Wells (+2 guests)
    • netburr (+1 guest)
    • Executive Director, CFI-NYC
    • Elisabet (+1 guest)
    • David (+1 guest)
    • Michael T Astolfi (+1 guest)

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