Eraserhead
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August 4 - 24, 2017
Lynch’s scrappy debut feature, five years in the making, is a nonlinear odyssey in which the hapless Henry (Jack Nance) navigates an inhospitable nocturnal landscape and struggles with the anxiety of fatherhood. A literal head movie that remains one of the definitive midnight movies of all time.
Sporadically filmed over five years in Los Angeles’s depopulated downtown and on painstakingly fabricated sets, Lynch’s 1977 debut feature nonetheless bears the imprint of his time as a young artist in Philadelphia. The film follows hapless protagonist Henry (Jack Nance), with his furrowed brow and electroshock pompadour, as he navigates an inhospitable nocturnal landscape and struggles with the anxiety of fatherhood. With its meticulous black-and-white cinematography by Frederick Elmes and Herbert Cardwell and groundbreaking sound design by Alan Splet, Eraserhead is a triumph of interiority, a literal head movie that might be taking place within someone’s traumatized skull, and one of the definitive midnight movies of all time.
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