Viewing: February 25,2025
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Cast: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Robert Loggia, Robert Blake
Join us Tuesday, February 25th at 7:00 p.m. for Let’s Do Lynch: A David Lynch Retrospective — we’ll be heading out on a road-trip into surrealist neo-noir!
Admission $8
About the film
“Dick Laurent is dead…” This mysterious message is transmitted over the house intercom of Fred Madison, an avant-garde saxophonist living in Los Angeles. The next day, his wife, Renee, finds a manilla envelope on the stoop that contains a VHS tape. The two sit and watch it only to discover that the video footage is of their house. Another tape arrives soon thereafter, this time showing a more intrusive view of the couple in bed asleep — a POV that could only be obtained by someone standing in their bedroom. To make matters worse, Fred has been having a dream wherein his wife is attacked by creepy assailant. When Fred later actually encounters the strange man at a party, he is revealed to be a friend of Dick Laurent. When a third tape arrives showing Renee dead and dismembered, Fred is falsely accused of the murder and thrown in jail. As if all of this wasn’t weird enough, Fred’s incarceration kicks off a chain of events that plumb the depths of David Lynch’s hallmark style of surreal story-telling!
Returning to themes similar to those explored in Blue Velvet, David Lynch once again deals with the “femme fatale” and the hero who inhabits a bleak landscape of distrust, violence, lust, and greed. What sets this film apart, however, is that the “hero” is not embodied by two characters who seem to share a connection not defined by normal reality.
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