We’re hoping to confirm more screenings as part of David Lynch: American Dreams and Nightmares as soon as possible. Watch this space for more details.
It would be remiss not to mark the passing of David Lynch: the creative polymath who died in January 2025.
An icon of independent cinema for audiences around the world, Lynch shared a special connection with Manchester following David Lynch at HOME – the 2019 venue takeover that saw HOME’s cinemas, theatres and galleries celebrate Lynch’s unique creative output and ongoing cultural legacy.
Over the course of a series of late evening encounters, David Lynch: American Dreams and Nightmares will provide a snapshot showcase of a filmmaking style so singular and yet so slippery – in one moment sinister, in the next sublime – it demands its own description: the Lynchian.
Lynch’s films guide us into a realm where the white picket fences of small-town USA border places of disturbance and decay, where the open road is full of promise and fear, and where the City of Angels is plagued by demons.
Your journey into the world of the Lynchian may be unsettling, captivating or bewildering. It will never be boring.
In this season
Cinema
Blue Velvet
Colliding sensuality and violence, voyeurism and innocence, Blue Velvet's dissection of the American psyche remains as potent as ever.
Cinema
Mulholland Drive
David Lynch's seductive and scary vision of Los Angeles' dream factory is one of the true masterpieces of the 21st century.