His specialty was adultery, murder and erotic thrills. When will Adrian Lyne get his respect?

This is read by an automated voice.Please report any issues or inconsistencies here.

See more from the L.A.Times in Google Search.

Set us as preferred Emerging from the same wave of stylish, advertising-trained British directors that included Ridley Scott and Alan Parker, Adrian Lyne used steam, smoke, dramatic lighting, great clothes and incredible hair on beautiful people to explore the eternal and ongoing divide between women and men and their often conflicting psychosexual agendas.To run down the names of Lyne’s greatest hits — “Flashdance,” “9½ Weeks,” “Fatal Attraction,” “Indecent Proposal,” “Unfaithful” — is to appreciate something essential, unencumbered and willfully kind of trashy about ’80s and ’90s moviegoing.This week, with a trio of screening events in Los Angeles, Lyne (pronounced like “mine”) may finally get the full respect he has long been due.

Lyne is scheduled to appear at the Academy Museum on Thursday with a 4K showing of 1987’s “Fatal Attraction,” for which he was Oscar-nominated for directing, and do a Q&A moderated by UCLA’s Maya Montañez Smukler.Then on Friday, Lyne will attend a 35mm screening of 2002’s “Unfaithful” with a Q&A moderated by podcaster and film historian Karina Longworth.

Finally on Saturday at an event presented by Hollywood Entertainment, Lyne will be at Brain Dead Studios for 2022’s “Deep Water.”And here is where these three nights with Lyne should get truly interesting: “Deep Water,” Lyne’s first film in 20 years, went straight to Hulu during the pandemic and Saturday’s screening will actually be its theatrical premiere.An adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel (with a screenplay co-written by “Euphoria’s” Sam Levinson), the movie stars Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas as a couple who match each other’s freak in perversely specific ways.

She likes to cheat and he likes to kill.In a twist worthy of Lyne‘s projects, the filmmak...