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Retrospective | David Lynch



Jean Cocteau used to say that the cinema is where we go to dream together and no director in history has pulled this off quite like David Lynch. From his debut feature, Eraserhead, in 1977, to this year’s much-talked-about Twin Peaks re-union, Lynch has been mastering the art of rendering dreams – and nightmares on screen. His resume covers many genres – from TV soap opera (Twin Peaks) to road movies (Wild At Heart), Hollywood Noir (Mulhollland Drive) to detective romance (Blue Velvet). But in every case, the result is unmistakably Lynch, a striking mix of European avant-garde, folksy Americana and sheer inexplicable weirdness that is all the director’s own.



Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me



Perhaps the most misunderstood film of Lynch’s career, ‘Fire walk With Me’ was conceived as a prequel to Lynch’s wildly popular, Twin Peaks. But viewers expecting more of the folksy charm of the TV series, with its heavenly pies and eccentric locals, were put off by the much darker tone of ‘Fire Walk With Me’. In the years since, the film has become a cult in its own right, with some sequences: including David Bowie’s extraordinary cameo as agent Philipp Jeffries, Leland and Laura’s confrontation with the one-armed man at a traffic intersection, and the ‘Pink Room’ being judged among Lynch’s best.



Event Info:

Date: Thursday 13 July

Address: 24 Kitchen Street (access via Blundell)) L1 0AN

Tickets from £3 adv: skiddle.com/e/13010452