Film Studies Open House + Film Screening

Double Indemnity

Director: Billy Wilder
1944, 106 minutes

Join the Film Studies Program for an open house and film screening in partnership with Hard Light Cinema. This WOW event is open to all students. 

A chance encounter. A forbidden attraction. A perfect crime exposing greed and desire. With all-time great performances by Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, and Edward G. Robinson. Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity is perhaps the perfect quintessential film noir. Wilder, a master of both comedy and tragedy, draws upon the German expressionist visual style to make this film full of shadowy interiors, bleak cityscapes, and visual symbols of modernist alienation and ennui. Raymond Chandler’s script had to work around the censorship of the Hays Code to adapt James M. Cain's nihilist novel of adultery and murder. The scene is set early with a silhouette of a hobbled man on crutches, and the stakes only get higher from there.

Hard Light Cinema is a Richmond collective of cinephiles bringing arthouse and non-mainstream films to central Virginia’s young professionals. The collaboration with the Film Studies Program at the University of Richmond aims to connect UR students with Richmond city film fans. Hard Light focuses on films typically unavailable in standard movie theaters. On campus, Germany is the setting for all fall 2025 film features.

Upcoming Hard Light at UR Events

All events are at 7 p.m. in Jepson 118

September 24, 2026
The Lady from Shanghai
Director: Orson Welles
1947, 87 minutes

October 15, 2026
Laura
Director: Otto Preminger
1944, 88 minutes

October 22, 2026
Blow Out
Director: Brian De Palma
1981, 108 minutes

November 19, 2026
Minority Report
Director: Steven Spielberg
2002, 145 minutes

December 3, 2026
Decision to Leave
Director: Park Chan-Wook
2022, 138 minutes