Archive for August, 2006

Film Festival, October 20-26

Friday, August 25th, 2006

For the latest on the Film Festival, check out http://www.fordhamfilmfestival.org.

The schedule is as follows:

Friday, October 20, 2006, 7:30 PM: “Thank You For Smoking” at Fordham Law School’s McNally Amphitheatre, followed by a conversation with novelist and essayist Christopher Buckley and Thane Rosenbaum, law professor, novelist, and the director of the Forum on Law, Culture & Society at Fordham Law School.

Saturday, October 21, 2006, 7:30 PM: “12 Angry Men,” at McNally, with Boyd Gaines and Peter Friedman, Tony nominated actors who starred in the recent Broadway production of Twelve Angry Men.

Sunday, October 22, 2006, 7:30 PM: “The Accused,” at McNally, with Joel Seidemann, Manhattan assistant district attorney and author, Deborah Denno, Professor of Law at Fordham Law School, and Rosyln Myers, writer and editor for Crime Victims Report and an Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School.

Monday, October 23, 2006, 7:30 PM: “A Civil Action,” at John Jay, with the Honorable Denny Chin, Federal District Court Judge, and Mathew Diller, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Fordham Law School.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006, 7:30 PM: “A Time to Kill,” at John Jay, with Benjamin Brafman, criminal defense attorney, and Delores Jones-Brown, a Professor in the department of Law, Police Science, and Justice Administration and the Interim Director at the Center on Race, Crime, and Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006, 6:30 PM: “Judgment at Nuremberg,” at Makor, with Eli Rosenbaum, director of the Office of Special Investigations of the United States Justice Department and the chief Nazi hunter in America, and Maria Marcus, Professor of Law at Fordham Law School.

Thursday, October 26, 2006, 7:30 PM: “In the Bedroom,” at Makor, with Chris Cuomo, co-anchor of Primetime Live and ABC News Senior Legal Correspondent, and Daniel J. Kornstein, Esq, a partner at Kornstein Veisz Wexler & Pollard, LLP and author.

Tickets are $12-$15, available at http://www.makor.org/fordhamlawfilmfestival. All screenings start at 7:30 PM, except “Judgment at Nuremberg” (6:30 PM) and “The Accused” (matinee, 3:00 PM).

Any questions, feel free to contact filmfestival@law.fordham.edu.