Poet and biographer Honor Moore, who has published two collections of poetry and a biography of her grandmother, the painter Margarett Sargent, will give a reading from selections of her work. Her poems have appeared in several different literary magazines, and her essays have been printed in The New Yorker and The New York Times. Her work is characterized by the visual precision with which she explores emotional topics. This event is sponsored by the Creative Writing Center as part of its annual series of readings. (Wed., 8 p.m., Porter Lounge, Converse Hall.)

The Amherst College Orchestra, conducted by music director Mark Lane Swanson, will be putting on a program called "Music of Vienna." It will feature pieces by Johann Strauss, Jr. and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but the highlight of the night is expected to be Gustav Mahler's "First Symphony." Mahler's work lasts 60 minutes and will be performed by more than 80 musicians. It exemplifies the "maximalist" expressiveness of late 19th-century Romantic music. (Fri., 8:30 p.m., Buckley Recital Hall.)

If rocking out indie-style in Northampton is your idea of a good time, this show is for you. Badly Drawn Boy, the artist best known for his soundtrack from last year's Hugh Grant film "About a Boy," is bringing his indie-pop melodies to the Valley. Singer-songwriter Leona Naess, whose beautifully melancholic songs blend the rock, pop and folk genres, will open. (Sat., 7 p.m. and 10 p.m., Iron Horse Music Hall, Northampton. Tickets $20 at 584-0610.)

The Amherst Center for Stage & Screen Film Club will present a screening of "Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht," Werner Herzog's 1979 remake of F.W. Murnau's silent 1922 classic "Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens." Herzog's film stars Klaus Kinski, a German-born actor with whom Herzog had a long and famous working relationship. Kinski delivers an intense and moving performance and the movie is considered to be a classic of horror film in its own right (Sat., 7:30 p.m., Jones Library, Amherst.)

In "The Runaway Jury," Dustin Hoffman plays a lawyer of some sort, and the whole thing's probably nothing spectacular. If you want spectacular, rent "All the President's Men," the late Alan J. Pakula's deadly gripping retelling of the Watergate scandal. Hoffman stars as Carl Bernstein to Robert Redford's Bob Woodward, the two journalists who, with some unorthodox help, exposed Tricky Dick. The film is intensely absorbing and relentlessly suspenseful; I'll be damned if it doesn't it succeed in making politics fascinating to even the most apathetic of citizens.