Wed 1/29 @ 7PM
Thu 2/20 @ 9:45PM
When David Lynch died in mid-January at the age of 78, film aficionados mourned the loss of a director whose distinctively eerie, disorienting, surrealistic style was instantly recognizable. He made his first full length film, Eraserhead, in 1977, and went on to direct such acclaimed movies as his Oscar-nominated The Elephant Man (1980), Blue Velvet (1986), Wild at Heart (1990), and Mulholland Drive (2001). He also co-created the TV show Twin Peakswhich, while short-lived (1990-1991), was hugely influential.
The Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque is giving film lovers a chance to revisit a couple of Lynch’s greatest hits, starting with a screening of Blue Velvet, which incorporates film noir tropes and was a little too drenched in sex and violence for some observers, this Wednesday in a 4K restoration. Then on February 20, it’ll rewind to Eraserhead, with its incongruous supernatural occurrences and, yes, more violence. Don’t expect clear, linear plotting in either one; that wasn’t Lynch’s thing. Get tickets here.