How Does the Silver Screen Shape the Golden State? Featuring Friday

Director and lifelong Alfred Hitchcock fan Guillermo del Toro delivers an in-depth lecture on this nail-biter from the Master of Suspense, followed by a screening.

A down-on-his-luck RAF veteran (Jon Finch) finds himself the prime suspect in series of rape-murders in the penultimate film from Hitchcock. Making his only film to receive an R rating at the time of its release—and filming in his native England for the first time in more than two decades—Hitchcock took advantage of the new permissiveness of 70s filmmaking with an unusually brutal and bleakly witty thriller, working from a clever screenplay by Anthony Shaffer (Sleuth, 1972) based on Arthur La Bern’s 1966 novel Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square, complete with the master’s usual meticulous visuals and classic suspense set pieces.

In person: Robert Rodriguez

In person: director Adrian Lyne