David Lynch erupted onto the cinema landscape with Eraserhead, establishing himself as one of the most original, imaginative, and truly personal directors at work in contemporary film. Over the course of a career that includes such films as The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Lost Highway, Inland Empire and the seminal TV series Twin Peaks, Lynch has remained true to an artistic vision of innocence lost or adrift in the direst states of darkness and confusion.
It has been stated that nobody else sees the world quite as David Lynch does and that once seen, his films are never forgotten, nor does the world about us seem quite as it did before. As part of David Lynch at HOME and to complement the exhibition My Head is Disconnected, HOME will be curating a season of work both directed by Lynch and work that he has cited as an inspiration to him.
Previously in this season
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Talk: I’ll See You in My Dreams
In this talk, Dr Kirsty Fairclough from the University of Salford will examine the phenomenon that is the world of Twin Peaks.
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Lost Highway
Director David Lynch travels the weird back roads of America, musing on dreams and identity.
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Eraserhead
Lynch's tale of an eccentric loner in a nightmare post-industrial landscape, it’s guaranteed to haunt your dreams.
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Dune + Introduction
This screening of Dune on Sat 17 Aug at 17:30 will be introduced by Dr Amy C Chambers, Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies…
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Blue Velvet + Post-Screening Discussion
There will be a post screening discussion with filmmakers and visual artists AL and AL following the screening of Blue Velvet on Sun 18 Aug.
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Mulholland Drive
Consistently hailed as the best film of the 21st century, David Lynch's quintessential neo-noir thrives on Watts career-making performance as an aspiring Hollywood actress who,…
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Wild at Heart + Introduction
Th 20:15 screening of Wild at Heart will be introduced by Maggie Hoffgen, freelance film educator.
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The Straight Story + Introduction
This Fri 23 Aug, 18:00 screening of The Straight Story will be introduced by Jason Wood, Creative Director: Film and Culture at HOME.
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Blue Velvet
A classic of American cinema starring Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper and Laura Dern. A clean-cut young man makes a gruesome discovery which leads him to…
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Sunset Boulevard
This acid-etched portrait of Tinseltown remains one of the darkest movies on moviemaking.
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The Man Without a Past
In Helsinki, a man gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember anything from his past, he slowly starts building himself a…
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Wild at Heart
A road movie that fuses Bonnie and Clyde with The Wizard of Oz, the hyper-violent Wild at Heart won Lynch the Palme d’Or.
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Reviled on release, this film set in Deer Meadow, an alternate and hellish Twin Peaks, has undergone a huge critical reappraisal and is now seen…
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The Wizard of Oz
When Dorothy Gale gets caught in a tornado she ends up in the magical land of Oz.
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In Cold Blood
Adapting Truman Capote’s true-crime novel about the senseless murder of a family in rural Kansas, In Cold Blood is a grimly authentic American horror story.
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me + Introduction
This screening will be introduced by Bren O’Callaghan, Curator at HOME.
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A Place in the Sun
George Stevens’ multi-Oscar winning A Place in the Sun is one of the most powerful and touching of Hollywood romances. The story of how a…
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Stroszek + Introduction
The 18:10 screening will be introduced by Andy Willis, Senior Visiting Curator for Film.
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Meditation, Creativity, Peace + Introduction
This screening will be introduced by David Hughes, who has been teaching Transcendental Meditation for 40 years and has written many articles on the subject.
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David Lynch Shorts Programme
Incorporating Lynch’s earliest forays into filmmaking, this selection of shorter works illustrates the director’s restless creativity, the breadth of his imagination and his ability to…
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Twin Peaks S3 ep 1 & 2
More than a quarter of a century after its debut, series three of David Lynch’s show is just as baffling, mystical and occasionally deranged… only…
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David Lynch: The Art Life
An intimate portrait of the master director, screenwriter and producer, David Lynch.
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Meditation, Creativity, Peace
This documentary is an exhilarating, inspiring round-up of questions and answers from David Lynch's European and Middle East tours of 2007-2009.
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Twin Peaks S3 ep 8
In a brave and groundbreaking hour of television, Lynch takes the viewer on an incredible journey. Guaranteed to blow your mind.
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Inland Empire
David Lynch's sprawling Hollywood nightmare takes the perspective of Nikki Grace – an out-of-favour actress who's engulfed in the cursed production of her comeback film…