Eraserhead (Lynch, 1976): Cinema Museum, 7.30pm
THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT BUT THERE IS A REPEAT 16mm SCREENING on Saturday February 15th. Details here.
This film, being shown on 16mm by Nickel Cinema after David Lynch's recent death, takes me back to an era before video, DVD and social media when print and word-of-mouth were the main forms of communication where a film was concerned. Lynch's debut was a must-see back in the late 1970s and it was fitting that the movie had its premiere at a midnight screening at the Cinema Village in New York as the midnight-movie circuit was responsible for popularising this indefinable work. Eraserhead is a seminal work in the history of independent film and is as much a must-see now for anyone interested in what film can achieve.
Chicago Reader review:
David
Lynch describes his first feature (1977) as “a dream of dark and
troubling things,” and that's about as close as anyone could get to the
essence of this obdurate blend of nightmare imagery, Grand Guignol, and
camp humor. Some of it is disturbing, some of it is embarrassingly flat,
but all of it shows a degree of technical accomplishment far beyond
anything else on the midnight-show circuit. With Jack Nance and
Charlotte Stewart.'
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the original trailer.
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