Next Brown Bag event on February 20th: SIG Brown Bag and a Movie!
It’s great fun, and every member is welcome to join us. Members can bring a friend who may want to join our Osher program.
Where: Osher Learning Center, Cyert Hall
When: 3rd Friday of each month
Lunch Time 11:30, Movie 12:15
*NEW COURSE ID* Register for ID: 5584 to be notified of the upcoming movies!
Spring 2026 Schedule
February 20th: Rope - 1948
A psychological crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1929 play by Patrick Hamilton. The film was adapted by Hume Cronyn with a screenplay by Arthur Laurents. Starring James Stewart, John Dall and Farley Granger, this is the first of Hitchcock's Technicolor films.
March 20th: The Big Heat - 1953
A film noir directed by Fritz Lang starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, and Jocelyn Brando, about a cop who takes on the crime syndicate that controls his city. William P. McGivern’s serial in The Saturday Evening Post, published as a novel in 1953, was the basis for the screenplay, written by former crime reporter Sydney Boehm.
April 17th: Body Heat - 1981
An erotic neo-noir thriller written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan, in his directorial debut, staring William Hurt and Kathleen Turner, and featuring Richard Crenna, Ted Danson, J. A. Preston and Mickey Rourke. The film was inspired by the classic film noir Double Indemnity (1944), in turn based on the 1943 novel of the same name.
May 22nd: Memento - 2000
A psychological thriller written and directed by Christopher Nolan, based on the short story "Memento Mori" by his brother Jonathan Nolan, staring Guy Pearce as a man who suffers from anterograde amnesia—resulting in short-term memory loss, and the inability to form new memories—who attempts to uncover the perpetrator who killed his wife, and caused him to sustain the condition.