Psychological Thrillers - Part 2 with Eric Hart

Psychological Thrillers - Part 2

This class will be offered in two parts with four films in each part - Part 1 in October and Part 2 in January and February. We will discuss the concept of what constitutes “A Psychological Thriller.” Films will focus on movies that are dark and intense but are not graphically violent. The films will be a mixture of classic and contemporary. Light refreshments will be served at each class.

January 29 - February 19

THE OTHERS– Alejandro Amenabar (2001)

Tuesday, January 29 from 5:30- 8pm

The film maker sends his camera down shadowy corridors and into cavernous rooms to

create a mood of elegant dread. It is persuasively spooky, and even manages to be

poignant, thanks to a fierce performance by Nicole Kidman. She plays a woman living

with her two children and three peculiar servants in a fog-shrouded house on the island

of Jersey, in the English Channel. USA 104 min.

REPULSION- Roman Polanski (1965)

Tuesday, February 5 from 5:30 - 8pm

In Roman Polanski's first English-language film, beautiful young manicurist Carole

(Catherine Deneuve) suffers from fear of men. When her sister and roommate, Helen ,

leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole

withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear

gradually mutating into madness. Great Britain 95min.

THE CONVERSATION-Francis Ford Coppola (1974)

Tuesday, February 12 from 5:30 - 8pm

A paranoid and secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he

suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered. Outstanding performance

by Gene Hackman. USA 113min.

The OTHER-Robert Mulligan (1972)

Tuesday, February 19 from 5:30– 8pm

In the summer of 1935, 12-year-old twins Niles and Holland Perry live with their family on a

Connecticut farm. Their grandmother Ada has taught them something called "the game." A

number of accidents begin happening, and it seems to Niles that Holland is responsible. It is

Ada who begins to see the truth. USA 108 min.