Friday Night Film Series
Bricker Academic Building, Room 201
Fridays 7-10 pm (excluding Thanksgiving weekend)

Brought to you by the Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation

Beginning September 18, 2009 the department of English and Film Studies recommences its Friday Night Film Series, open to WLU students and the general public. Each term offers a new series of films to reflect the diversity of global cinema. For more information about the films please see the Film Studies webpage.

Under the Radar: 10 Classic Films You’ve Never Seen

The focus of the fall screening series is to introduce audiences to 10 films that embody crucial moments in the development of cinematic traditions, but that have been largely overlooked by critics, by the academy and by popular audiences. These 10 films, which span the globe, are representative of a number of major movements in cinema, such as the screwball comedy genre in the United States, the political cinemas of Latin America, the school of the Russian Formalists and the cinema of post-war Japan, to name but a few. Not only are they well-made and exciting examples of the periods from which they are from, they are essential viewing for the both the serious and casual devotee of cinema. All films will be introduced by the programmers, Elizabeth Clarke and Patrick Faubert, both students in the Doctoral program in English and Film Studies at Laurier.

Sept 18: The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (Preston Sturges, USA; 1944)
Sept 25: Thieves Like Us (Robert Altman, USA; 1974)
Oct 2: Tout va bien (Jean-Luc Godard, Fr; 1972)
Oct 16: Le cercle rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville, Fr; 1970)
Oct 23: Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, Sp; 1973)
Oct 30: Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Eisenstein, USSR; 1938)
Nov 6: Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan; 1949)
Nov 13: How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (dos Santos, Brazil; 1971)
Nov 20: Black Cat, White Cat (Emir Kusturica, Fr/Ger/Yugoslavia; 1998)
Nov 27: In the Company of Strangers (Canada, 1991)