Current and Upcoming Courses:

May
Akira Kurosawa: East Meets West

June
Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years

July
Symphony of Horrors:
Dracula in Literature and Film

September
The Language of Film
Now you can take this class at BMFI or
in Center City at The Gershman Y!

September - December
Film History Discussion Series:
1945-Present

Remember: BMFI Members at the Producer level and above receive a discount on course tuition.
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September - December
Film History Discussion Series: 1945-Present
Led by Bryn Mawr Film Institute Faculty

Sessions meet:
12 Mondays, 12:00pm to 3:00pm, from September 8 through December 8
(No meetings on September 29 and October 13)
Fee: $200 for the whole series, or $20 for individual sessions

To register, click here or call 610-527-4008 x105. Registrations for individual sessions can only be accepted over the phone, or at the time of the discussion meeting.

Join members of BMFI’s faculty for a series of discussions charting a course through the post-World War II history of world cinema.  We will visit a chronological series of styles and national cinemas, including classical Hollywood, Italian Neorealism, the French New Wave, and other movements and genres of the last sixty years.

Films to be discussed are (click the film title for a description):

9/8: Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, US, 1946)
9/15: Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1950) 
9/22: Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, US, 1950)
9/29 : No Discussion
10/6: Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica, Italy, 1952)
10/13: No Discussion
10/20: Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, US, 1959)
10/27: Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, France, 1960)
11/3: The Pawnbroker (Sidney Lumet, US, 1964)
11/10: Gimme Shelter (Albert & David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, US, 1970)
11/17: The Marriage of Maria Braun (R. W. Fassbinder, Germany, 1979)
11/24: A Better Tomorrow (John Woo, Hong Kong, 1986)
12/1: The Limey (Steven Soderbergh, US, 1999)
12/8: Paradise Now (Hany Abu-Assad, The Palestinian Territories, 2005)

Film selections subject to change.

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