The Acton-Boxborough Cultural Council is pleased to announce its Third Annual Our World Foreign Film Series featuring three classic films from different eras and different countries. These films will be shown on successive Friday nights in Room 204 of the Acton Town Hall on Main Street (Rt. 27) in Acton at 7:00 PM, and admission is free.
We open this year’s Series on Friday, May 6th with the most significant film of the silent era: Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 Russian classic: Battleship Potemkin. This film depicts the events surrounding the mutiny on the eponymous Battleship in 1905. Battleship Potemkin will be shown in a restored version released in 2007 with all of the original 146 Russian title cards and re-translated English subtitles.
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The next film in the series will be Milos Forman’s Loves of a Blonde, shown on Friday, May 13th. This classic Czech film, with English subtitles, garnered Forman his first Academy Awardä nomination, for Best Foreign Film (the OscarÒ). An offbeat and humorous romance, Loves of a Blonde tells the story of a young woman, Andula, who works in a small Czech factory town where women outnumber men by 16:1.
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Finally, the Our World series concludes on Friday, May 20th, with the great French/British anti-war film King of Hearts (Le Roi de Coeur), directed by Philippe de Broca and released in 1967. This film, one of the most popular foreign films in the U.S., will be shown in its original French and English, with English subtitles.
All of these classic films are unrated but are not suitable for young children. It is recommended that teens be accompanied by an adult. Free parking is available at the rear of the building. Neither food nor beverages will be provided.
The Acton-Boxborough Cultural Council is supported by the towns of Acton and Boxborough, and by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.