A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Read More »
Tag Archives: David Lynch
The Straight Story (1999) David Lynch, Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway Heitz
Alvin Straight is a very old man with a quiet life in a small country town. Read More »
Lost Highway (1997) David Lynch, Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, John Roselius
Set in a city suspiciously like Los Angeles, both blazingly modern and resolutely retro in look and feel. Read More »
Eraserhead (1977) David Lynch, Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
This surreal nightmare examines male paranoia. Our hero and title character, Henry, faces a number of horrifying obstacles in meeting someone of the opposite sex, meeting her parents, and procreating. Produced during a one-and-a-half-year period while director David Lynch was a student at the American Film Institute, the film launched him as a major new talent admired by cinephiles and filmmakers all over the world. It stands today as a milestone in personal, independent filmmaking.
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