"Eraserhead" - 30th Anniversary Restoration
Saturday, January 19 | 9:10 pm
David Lynch
1978/b&w/88 min. | Scr/dir: David Lynch; w/ Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart
A debut film of boundless invention and textured abstraction, Lynch's Eraserhead became a fixture of midnight screenings when it surfaced in the late-1970s. Father to a helpless creature left to him by his estranged girlfriend, lonely Henry wanders through a hallucinatory landscape somewhere between noir expressionism and post-apocalyptic surrealism."
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"The Short Films of David Lynch"
Friday, January 18 | 9:10 pm
David Lynch
1966-1996/color and b&w/76 min.| Scr/dir: David Lynch
From 1966's Six Men Getting Sick, a component of an art installation created while Lynch was a student, to Premonitions Following an Evil Deed, his 1996 contribution to the anthology film Lumière et compagnie honoring the turn-of-the-century inventors of cinema, tonight's program presents the diverse scope of David Lynch's short film work. Lynch's first wife Peggy stars in 1968's The Alphabet, an illustration of the ABCs filtered through child-like horror. The American Film Institute funded Lynch's darkly magical The Grandmother (1970) in which a boy uses his imagination to escape from his troubles at home. Shot while Lynch was working on Eraserhead to test two different kinds of black-and-white video stocks, 1974's The Amputee stars the director himself tending to a woman missing both legs. Following Blue Velvet, Lynch produced The Cowboy and the Frenchman (1988) for French television. Working for the first time with Harry Dean Stanton, an actor who would become a fixture for much of the director's feature films, Lynch fashions a comical encounter between the Old World and the Wild West."
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"Lynch" January 18th 7.30pm + 19th 7.30pm
VIEW More HERE:
www.lacma.org/programs/FilmListing.aspx#1188240397660
Eraserhead 30th Anniversary in L.A. (LACMA Museum)
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Went to see Lynch (One) and Eraserhead last night...both were phenomenal and with great sound but Eraserhead had so many scratches including one long, big one running down the center of the print.
Still it was great to see Eraserhead on a big screen with a decent sound system. I had only seen it on DVD before. It really plays differently when projected...I mean I noticed scenes and shots that I felt like I hadn't seen before--I'm sure I had but it all just felt different... in a good way.
What was interesting (and what I had forgotten) was the scene of Henry with The Woman Next Door kissing in his bed filled with white liquid as they slowly sink underwater--this shot is taken directly from Fellini's 8 1/2 --and Lynch does it perfectly and to greater effect.
Place was packed and it was funny to see people's reactions. I think the woman in front of me never saw it and she was scared and horrified--kept covering her eyes and saying oh my god, oh my god--it was awesome!
The crowd really laughed at Mr. X when he's talking to Henry about cutting them like regularl chickens and later just staring, frozen at Henry. Actually the whole Mr. X encounter had the crowd in stitches.
Such a beautiful thing...
Still it was great to see Eraserhead on a big screen with a decent sound system. I had only seen it on DVD before. It really plays differently when projected...I mean I noticed scenes and shots that I felt like I hadn't seen before--I'm sure I had but it all just felt different... in a good way.
What was interesting (and what I had forgotten) was the scene of Henry with The Woman Next Door kissing in his bed filled with white liquid as they slowly sink underwater--this shot is taken directly from Fellini's 8 1/2 --and Lynch does it perfectly and to greater effect.
Place was packed and it was funny to see people's reactions. I think the woman in front of me never saw it and she was scared and horrified--kept covering her eyes and saying oh my god, oh my god--it was awesome!
The crowd really laughed at Mr. X when he's talking to Henry about cutting them like regularl chickens and later just staring, frozen at Henry. Actually the whole Mr. X encounter had the crowd in stitches.
Such a beautiful thing...
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Kind of ironic as it's touted as a 'Restoration'moviemaker wrote:Went to see Lynch (One) and Eraserhead last night...both were phenomenal and with great sound but Eraserhead had so many scratches including one long, big one running down the center of the print.
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