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January
3, 2003
Film
Festival Looks at Troubled Youth
CHICAGO
--- "Rebel Without a Cause" will launch "Bad Boys/Bad
Girls: Youth in Trouble" a two-day film festival that the Children
and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University School of Law
is hosting as part of the commemoration of the 10th anniversary
of the center.
Free
and open to the public, the festival will take place Thursday and
Friday, Jan. 16 and 17, at Northwestern University School of Law,
Thorne Auditorium, 375 E. Chicago Ave.
Part
of the School of Law’s Bluhm Legal Clinic, the Children and
Family Justice Center is a comprehensive entity offering free legal
services to children in crisis. The films deal with many of the
issues the center grapples with daily: dysfunctional families, rebellious
children, causes of juvenile delinquency, maintenance of traditional
family lives in the face of massive social changes, teenage problems
and the prevalence of violence.
The
festival is designed to get people thinking about the cultivation
and imagery of bad adolescents, youth violence and justice for children,
according to Bernardine Dohrn, founder and director, Children and
Family Justice Center.
Those
speaking at the festival include Steven Drizin, an associate clinical
professor at the Children and Family Justice Center and an authority
on false juvenile confessions, and James Chandler, Barbara E. &
Richard J. Franke Professor, University of Chicago.
Schedule
of films:
4:30
p.m., Jan. 16, "Rebel Without a Cause." About a teenaged
juvenile delinquent, this classic stars James Dean and Natalie Wood.
Dean plays a teenage social outcast searching for his identity.
7
p.m., Jan. 16, "A Clockwork Orange." Malcolm MacDowell
stars in Stanley Kubrick’s masterful social satire on crime
and punishment in an ultra-violent future.
3
p.m., Jan. 17, "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin
Hood Hills." The graphic documentary is about a 1993 triple
child murder and indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys
based on questionable evidence.
5
p.m., Jan. 17, "The Legend of Billie Jean." About
an outlaw 17-year-old girl, the film stars Christian Slater and
Helen Slater. When a couple of ruffians cause Billie Jean’s
little brother to wreck his scooter, the young woman embarks on
a crusade to recover the $600 he needs to fix the bike.
7
p.m., Jan. 17, "Boyz N the Hood." Cuba Gooding Jr,
and Larry Fishburne star in John Singleton’s acclaimed film
about a teenager caught between the steady guidance of his father
and the inescapable violence of his South Central Los Angeles neighborhood.
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