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                        LAW SCHOOL FILMS - SPRING 1996
 
All showings are held at the Law School Auditorium, located at
1121 East 60th Street, next to the Burton-Judson Courts, on the F Bus Route.
Admission is $3 for adults, children under 12 $1.50.
Quarterly passes are available for a mere --> $11 <-- at the door.             
The Law School Films Information Line can be reached at:  312-702-1113.
 
You can access the Law School Films World Wide Web Page at
"http://http.bsd.uchicago.edu/lsf/"  For more information on using this
page, send mail to slgentge@midway.uchicago.edu.  

Wednesday, April 10th, 8:00 PM 
THE LAVENDER HILL MOB
Charles Crichton, 1961 - 78m
Starring: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway 
Timid bank clerk, Guinness, dreams up one of those perfect crimes - a
gold bullion robbery - that never turn out to be perfect. Initially
successful, incriminating evidence (miniature Eiffel Towers) throws the
gang into a desperate, frustrating chase that takes them to Paris, then back
to England with an ironic climax as the last of the statuettes is spotted
inside a Police show by the duo tracking them down. A superbly
characterized and inventively detailed Oscar-winning comedy (Best
Story and Screenplay by T. E. B. Clarke), one of the best ever made at
Ealing or in Britain. "Well paced and sustained throughout: the climax is
delightful" - Halliwell.

Thursday, April 11th, 8:00 PM 
THE CABINET OF DR CALIGARI
Robert Wiene, 1919 - 90m 
Starring: Conrad Veidt
A man and his best friend visit a fairground where Dr Caligari is
exhibiting a somnambulist with prophetic powers. The prediction that the
best friend will die at dawn is fulfilled when he is murdered, with the
sleepwalker being the prime suspect. The latter abducts the dead man's
fiancee but dies in flight. Meanwhile disturbing and strange discoveries
are made concerning Caligari. Is he actually the director of a mental
asylum and is the story real or just the dream of a madman? With its odd
angles, stylized sets and hypnotic acting this German expressionist film
had an immense influence on the dramatic art of cinema. It is also
notable for the sting in the tail of its ending (added by the producer).
"The first hundred shocks are the hardest." - New York Evening Post.
"Undoubtedly one of the most exciting and inspired horror movies ever
made." - Time Out. 
SALOME
Charles Bryant, 1923 - 45m 
Starring: Nazimova
"Despite careful stylization and exquisite photography, this adaptation of
Oscar Wilde's play boasts a healthy streak of vulgarity of which Wilde,
one suspects, would have secretly approved." The costumes and sets
were designed by Natacha Rambova, the wife of Valentino and
fashioned after Beardsley's drawings but, "the film's atmosphere comes
less from the artist's effete preciousness than from the robust and
strapping decadence of '20s Hollywood." - Time Out. 

Saturday, April 13th, 7:30 & 10:00 PM 
Sunday, April 14th, 8:00 PM
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S
Blake Edwards, 1961 - 115m 
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard
A young New York writer, Paul Varjak (Peppard) juggles his
relationship with a wealthy patroness (Neal) and an affair with his
winsome neighbor, Holly Golightly (Hepburn), a slightly crazy call girl
with an exotic social and emotional life. She's searching for a rich, older
man to marry, while Varjak is being kept by the older woman. The
opening scene has her window shopping at Tiffany's at six in the
morning, after being up all night on a date. A charming fairytale-like
movie.