Series

I Like to Watch: Voyeurism in Cinema

Whether it’s looking on the screen or the scopophilic pleasure of watching people in a dark theater who can’t watch you back, looking relations have long defined the thrill of watching. Explore the dark and deep pull of voyeurism in film with this series of three of cinema’s most complex films about looking.

Dare to watch:

March 11, 7pm: The Lives of Others/Das Leben der Anderen | In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.

March 25, 7pm: The Manchurian Candidate | John Frankenheimer's masterwork of conspiracy and twisted loyalty finds an American POW brainwashed into being an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.

April 1, 7pm: Blow Out | Brian DePalma mixes Hitchcock and Antonioni together for this raw and suspenseful story of surveillance and political intrigue.