The "Professor's Choice" Film Series "Rashomon" (Kurosawa, 1950).

Introduced by Elena Malits (Religious Studies, Ermerita).

College Student Center, Vander Vennet Theatre - 7 pm

Rashomon is a Japanese crime drama that is produced with both philosophical and psychological overtones. An episode (rape and murder) in a forest is reported by four witnesses, each from their own point of view. - Who is telling the truth? What is truth? ~ Frode S. Stringer {fstringe@direct.ca}

The Board of Trustees will be meeting on campus from October 29-31.

All campus activities may be viewed at:

http://spev.saintmarys.edu/VirtualEMSCampus/ 

Dedication ceremonies for our new academic building, Specs Unica, will take place on Thursday, October 30.

For specific times and additional information, please visit:

http://www3.saintmarys.edu/giving/spes-unica-dedication

All campus activities may be viewed at:

http://spev.saintmarys.edu/VirtualEMSCampus/ 

The "Professor's Choice" Film Series presents "Medium Cool" (Haskell Wexler, 1969).

Introduced by Bob Hohl (Library)

Regina Hall Room 152 - 7 pm

Few documents in any medium captured the political unrest of the late '60s with greater clarity than Medium Cool, a remarkably accomplished directorial effort from award-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler. Wexler took to the streets of Chicago with a film crew to record how the city prepared for the 1968 Democratic Convention, and he put himself in the middle of the violent clashes between police and protestors that went on to define that event. Wexler then wove this material into a narrative about John (Robert Forster), a TV news cameraman whose ability to observe impartially the events around him is challenged by the violence of the riots, as well as by his relationship with Eileen (Verna Bloom), a young widow whose husband died in Vietnam. While it's no surprise that Wexler's footage of actual events bears the ring of truth, his staged sequences have a rough, improvised quality that meshes perfectly with the real-life sequences, and the result is a work that blurs the lines between fact and fiction. Wexler's mix of visual polemics, on-the-spot documentary, human drama, Brechtian disorientation, media-savvy analysis of television, and fashionable sex, drugs, and rock & roll made Medium Cool as intelligent and challenging as anything Jean-Luc Godard produced in Europe at the time, and Wexler's film has for the most part better withstood the test of time. It's a shame that Wexler directed so few features after Medium Cool, but, as both a work of art and a document of a central moment in American history, it remains an essential and invaluable film. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

The Center for Spirituality sponsors the Quest Project Fall Lecture Series: Rev. Dr. Antje Jackelen

Little Theatre, Moreau Center for the Arts - 7:30 pm

Theories of Emerging Complexities: A Theological Approach to the QUESTion

Rev. Dr. Antje Jackelén, Past Director of the Zygon Center for the Study of Science and Religion and current Bishop of Lund, Sweden. She is the first woman bishop to be appointed after a popular vote in the diocese in the Church of Sweden.

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