Hard Light Cinema at UR: Laura

Laura

Director: Otto Preminger
1944, 88 minutes

Join the Film Studies Program for a film screening in partnership with Hard Light Cinema. 

New York City provides a gritty backdrop for an everyman police detective who falls for a victim as he investigates her murder. Named one of the best mystery films by the AFI, Otto Preminger’s Laura is full of past and future stars from the era with Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Judith Anderson, and a young Vincent Price. A gothic story of ambition, obsession, corruption, and betrayal among the city’s cultural elite, Laura’s influence is seen most explicitly in on David Lynch’s TV series Twin Peaks, in which multiple plot elements are borrowed from Preminger’s noir classic. The ghost of Laura looks over the film in a Gothic portrait while a beautiful jazz piece by the same name repeats hauntingly throughout the film.

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

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