Shadows and Secrets: The Gothic Heroine on Film traces the evolution of women at the center of classic gothic cinema, from romantic obsession and peril to resistance and survival.
Set in shadowed houses and windswept landscapes, these four films explore how love, power, and secrecy intertwine -- and how women learn to see through the stories meant to confine them.
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March 17: Dragonwyck
For Connecticut farm girl Miranda Wells (Gene Tierney), moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her wealthy cousin, Nicholas Van Ryn (Vincent Price), seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes nightmarish.
She observes Nicholas' troubled relationship with his tenant farmers, as well as with his daughter (Connie Marshall), to whom Miranda serves as governess. Her relationship with Nicholas intensifies after his wife dies, but his mental imbalance threatens any hope of happiness.
Dragonwyck is rarely screened -- so much so that the Lincoln has paid Disney to create a DCP (Digital Cinema Package -- the standard for theatre projection) from existing elements. This may be your only chance to catch this film on the big screen!
"With its blend of historically accurate political debates and macabre mysteries, it plays like a fusion of Poe and Tocqueville." —Richard Brody, The New Yorker
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring Gene Tierney, Vincent Price, Walter Huston
United States | English | 1946 | Drama, Mystery, Romance | 103 minutes | Approved
Film Prices
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General: $12.00
Seniors, Students, and Active Military: $11.00
Children 12 and under: $9.50
All prices include a $2.00 Preservation Fee that goes directly into our capital account for the preservation of the Lincoln Theatre and its programs