International Film Series Events for October

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September 28, 2011

Reading, Pa.  – Albright College’s International Film Series offers films throughout the fall semester. All films begin at 7:30 p.m. and are held in Klein Lecture Hall, Center for the Arts. Tickets are $3.

October 4
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl (2009, 64 min.)
Portuguese director, Manoel de Oliveira, who was 100 years old at the time of filming, creates this love story as told by a man whose thwarted romance with a beautiful young blonde-haired girl still haunts him.

October 11
Vampyr (1932, 73 min.)
This amazing, enigmatic film nightmare is a classic by Carl Theodor Dreyer.  It is one of the greatest films by Denmark’s incomparable master of silent and early sound cinema. 

October 25
Mike Kuchar in Person
A program of the latest short videos presented by the legendary filmmaker. With fans worldwide, Mike Kuchar now resides and works in San Francisco. He began making 8mm films with his brother, George, as a teenager in the Bronx. The brothers Kuchar have been acknowledged as major influences on such filmmakers such as Guy Madden, Tim Burton and John Waters. 

Klein Lecture Hall is located in the Center for the Arts on the Albright College campus at 13^th & Bern Streets in Reading, Pa.  For more information or disabled assistance, please contact the College Relations Office at 610-921-7526.

Founded in 1856, Albright College is a nationally ranked, private college with a rigorous liberal arts curriculum with an interdisciplinary focus. The College’s hallmarks are connecting fields of learning, collaborative teaching and learning, and a flexible curriculum that allows students to create an individualized education. More than half  of students have dual/individualized majors in as many as 200 different combinations annually. Albright enrolls about 1,660 undergraduates in traditional programs, another 800 adult students in accelerated degree programs, and 100 students in the master’s program in education. Albright College is located in Reading, Pennsylvania, about 60 miles west of Philadelphia.