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Series highlights film from around the world
8/25/2008 - Western Carolina University’s Lectures, Concerts and Exhibitions Series will show classic movies from around the world as part of a foreign film series that runs select Thursdays from September through April.
Movies are subtitled and begin at 7 p.m. at the A.K. Hinds University Center. Ticket prices are $4 for the general public and $2 for WCU students, faculty and staff.
The Lectures, Concerts and Exhibitions Series is coordinated by WCU students and faculty committed to bringing quality, challenging performers, speakers and projects to campus. For more information about the Lectures, Concerts and Exhibitions Series, call (828) 227-7206.
A full schedule follows:
- Thursday, Sept. 11, “The Seven Samurai” (1954, Japanese). During the civil unrest of 16th-century Japan, residents of a small farming village harassed by a band of marauders hire unemployed samurai for protection.
- Thursday, Oct. 16, “Vampyr” (1931, German). The story of this classic horror film revolves around a series of killings and is told from the perspective of a traveler who learns to accept that the strange and frightening are everyday occurrences.
- Thursday, Nov. 20, “Rocco and His Brothers” (1960, Italian). This epic story turns on the struggles of four brothers and their mother after they move to Milan to improve their fortune.
- Thursday, Feb. 19, “Ashes and Diamonds” (1958, Polish). The final in a film trilogy that launched director Andrzej Wajda’s career, this is the story of two men who receive orders on the final day of World War II in Poland to murder a leading communist.
- Thursday, March 26, “The Spider’s Stratagem” (1970, Italian). The film tells the story of a young man who returns to the village where his father was killed 30 years prior and the web of lies that entangles him.
- Thursday, April 30, “Zero for Conduct” (1933, French). More fantasy than social critique, the film focuses on the boarding school rebellion of a group of classmates.
Movies are subtitled and begin at 7 p.m. at the A.K. Hinds University Center. Ticket prices are $4 for the general public and $2 for WCU students, faculty and staff.
The Lectures, Concerts and Exhibitions Series is coordinated by WCU students and faculty committed to bringing quality, challenging performers, speakers and projects to campus. For more information about the Lectures, Concerts and Exhibitions Series, call (828) 227-7206.
A full schedule follows:
- Thursday, Sept. 11, “The Seven Samurai” (1954, Japanese). During the civil unrest of 16th-century Japan, residents of a small farming village harassed by a band of marauders hire unemployed samurai for protection.
- Thursday, Oct. 16, “Vampyr” (1931, German). The story of this classic horror film revolves around a series of killings and is told from the perspective of a traveler who learns to accept that the strange and frightening are everyday occurrences.
- Thursday, Nov. 20, “Rocco and His Brothers” (1960, Italian). This epic story turns on the struggles of four brothers and their mother after they move to Milan to improve their fortune.
- Thursday, Feb. 19, “Ashes and Diamonds” (1958, Polish). The final in a film trilogy that launched director Andrzej Wajda’s career, this is the story of two men who receive orders on the final day of World War II in Poland to murder a leading communist.
- Thursday, March 26, “The Spider’s Stratagem” (1970, Italian). The film tells the story of a young man who returns to the village where his father was killed 30 years prior and the web of lies that entangles him.
- Thursday, April 30, “Zero for Conduct” (1933, French). More fantasy than social critique, the film focuses on the boarding school rebellion of a group of classmates.
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Last modified Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008