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Mar 28 2025 - Apr 03 2025
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THE FILMS OF DAVID LYNCH

A director of such distinctive, overpowering vision that he inspired his own adjective, David Lynch (1946-2025) made films that seemed telegraphed straight from his unconscious to the screen. From the unsettling surrealist imagery of his midnight-movie classic ERASERHEAD to the harrowing suburban nightmare TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME and the uncanny majesty of his Hollywood-set masterpiece MULHOLLAND DR., Lynch’s labyrinthine puzzle boxes turn the American psyche inside out to reveal its deepest, darkest dimensions. ~ Criterion

Join us for a selection of Lynch’s films at The Ross March 28-April 3, 2025.
Tickets are at regular Ross prices. 

ERASERHEAD

A dream of dark and troubling things . . . David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, Eraserhead, is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty. With its mesmerizing black-and-white photography by Frederick Elmes and Herbert Cardwell, evocative sound design, and unforgettably enigmatic performance by Jack Nance, this visionary nocturnal odyssey continues to haunt American cinema like no other film. (1 hour, 29 minutes / Not Rated)

MARCH 28 - 5:10 p.m.
MARCH 30 - 5:05 p.m.
APRIL 3 - 5:00 p.m.

WILD AT HEART

Sailor (Nicolas Cage) and Lula (Laura Dern) are two lovers struggling to remain together even when fate seems intent on keeping them apart. In this case, fate is Lula’s mother, Marietta Fortune (Diane Ladd); a desperate woman who hates Sailor and will do anything to keep him away from her daughter. After Sailor is released from prison for murdering a man in self-defence, he and Lula embark on a sex-filled, rocking road trip, aware all the time that they are being hunted by Marietta’s cronies. (2 hours, 5 minutes / Rated R)

MARCH 29 - 12:00 p.m.
MARCH 30 - 2:40 p.m.
APRIL 1 - 7:45 p.m.

TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME

In the town of Twin Peaks, everyone has their secrets—but especially Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television series, David Lynch resurrects the teenager found wrapped in plastic at the beginning of the show, following her through the last week of her life and teasing out the enigmas that surround her murder. Homecoming queen by day and drug-addicted thrill seeker by night, Laura leads a double life that pulls her deeper and deeper into horror as she pieces together the identity of the assailant who has been terrorizing her for years. Nightmarish in its vision of an innocent torn apart by unfathomable forces, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is nevertheless one of Lynch’s most humane films, aching with compassion for its tortured heroine—a character as enthralling in life as she was in death. (2 hours, 14 minutes / Rated R)

MARCH 30 - 12:00 p.m.
MARCH 31 - 4:50 p.m.
APRIL 2 - 7:15 p.m.

LOST HIGHWAY

“We’ve met before, haven’t we?” A mesmerizing meditation on the mysterious nature of identity, Lost Highway, David Lynch’s seventh feature film, is one of the filmmaker’s most potent cinematic dreamscapes. Starring Patricia Arquette and Bill Pullman, the film expands the horizons of the medium, taking its audience on a journey through the unknown and the unknowable. As this postmodern noir detours into the realm of science fiction, it becomes apparent that the only certainty is uncertainty. (2 hours, 14 minutes / Rated R)

MARCH 29 - 2:25 p.m.
MARCH 31 - 7:30 p.m.

BLUE VELVET

Home from college, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) makes an unsettling discovery: a severed human ear, lying in a field. In the mystery that follows, by turns terrifying and darkly funny, Lynch burrows deep beneath the picturesque surfaces of small-town life. Driven to investigate, Jeffrey finds himself drawing closer to his fellow amateur sleuth, Sandy Williams (Laura Dern), as well as their person of interest, lounge singer Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini)—and facing the fury of Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper), a psychopath who will stop at nothing to keep Dorothy in his grasp. With intense performances and hauntingly powerful scenes and images, Blue Velvet is an unforgettable vision of innocence lost, and one of the most influential American films of the late twentieth century. (2 hours / Rated R)

MARCH 29 - 5:05 p.m.
MARCH 30 - 7:05 p.m.
APRIL 2 - 4:50 p.m.

MULHOLLAND DR.

A love story in the city of dreams . . . Blonde Betty Elms (Naomi Watts) has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia (Laura Harring). Meanwhile, as the two set off to discover the second woman’s identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher (Justin Theroux) runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project. David Lynch’s seductive and scary vision of Los Angeles’s dream factory is one of the true masterpieces of the new millennium, a tale of love, jealousy, and revenge like no other. (2 hours, 27 minutes / Rated R)

MARCH 29 - 7:30 p.m.
APRIL 1 - 4:50 p.m.
APRIL 3 - 7:00 p.m.

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