Programmed June 2025

Ripley Films

Featuring Loving Highsmith (2022), a feature-length documentary on author Patricia Highsmith Wicked charmer, sociopath, con artist, and killer, Tom Ripley is one of literature and cinema’s most enduring and enigmatic antiheroes. The slippery and seductive schemer at the center of Patricia Highsmith’s celebrated series of crime novels, Ripley has captivated filmmakers across generations, continents, and genres in a number of acclaimed film adaptations, proving an irresistible cipher for directors, actors, and viewers alike. As played by Alain Delon ( Purple Noon ), Dennis Hopper ( The American Friend ), Matt Damon ( The Talented Mr. Ripley ), and John Malkovich ( Ripley’s Game ), he continuously shape-shifts—by turns charismatic, chilling, queer, cultured, calculating, monstrous, and strangely sympathetic—becoming a dark-sided mirror of the anxieties and desires of his surroundings.