CAL Flix: Student View-ins
A Project
Schedule 2013-14


Tuesday, October 22, 4:10-7:30, Alumni Hall, VC 112 Old Vic, 91 Charles St W

The Law in These Parts (2011)

Film Screening and Panel Discussion with Ra'anan Alexandrowicz

È More on the film at PBS.org and nytimes.com


Tuesday, November 12, 6:00pm, Solarium, Falconer Hall, 84 Queen's Park

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

Things to think about:
È Jurisdiction    Rule(s) of Law(s)    Role of Law/Lawyer    Myth     Law and/vs Order    Self-government    Equality    Citizenship    Outlaw    Freedom of speech/press    Constitutional Law    Criminal Law
Things to flip through [spoiler alert]:
È Grantham, "Embracing Jurisdiction: John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"; Ryan, "Print the Legend: Violence and Recognition in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"; Livingstone, "Spiritedness, Reason and the Founding of Law and Order"; and...The New Yorker's Richard Brody (video)

Tuesday, January 29, 6:00pm, Solarium, Falconer Hall, 84 Queen's Park

Into the Abyss (2011)

N.Y. Times Review; on the "lighter" side of Werner Herzog:
È Herzog on Letterman, on Klaus Kinski; trailer for My Best Fiend (Herzog's film about Kinski) & for Aguirre: Wrath of God (one of Herzog's movies with Kinski, and the source of the Letterman anecdote)


Wednesday, April 2, 6:00pm, Solarium, Falconer Hall, 84 Queen's Park
M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
Fritz Lang:
È My Film M: A Factual Report