The Shining

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Introduced by Charles Dove, Director of Rice Cinema and Rice University Professor in the Practice of Visual Arts

In Stanley Kubrick’s terrifying adaptation of Stephen King’s novel, Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) becomes the winter caretaker at the isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado, hoping to cure a case of writer’s block. Jack settles in with his wife, Wendy (Shelley Duvall), and his psychic son, Danny (Danny Lloyd), who is plagued by horrific premonitions. As Jack’s writing goes nowhere and Danny’s visions become more disturbing, Jack discovers the hotel’s dark secrets and terrorizes the family. Shelley Duvall is unforgettable as the increasingly traumatized Wendy.

Tickets

• $9 general admission; $7 MFAH members, students with ID, seniors (65+)

Plan Your Visit

• This screening takes place in Brown Auditorium Theater on the lower level of the Law Building.
• Parking Information | Museum Hours | MFAH Campus Map

About the Speaker
Director of the Rice University film program, Charles Dove has been teaching film and literature in Houston since the 1990s. He received his bachelor of arts degree from the University of Illinois and earned both a master of arts and a doctorate at Johns Hopkins University. His areas of teaching and research are Hollywood, early cinema, genre, 19th- and 20th-century literature, and film and literary theory.