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November 1

Fred Films | 7pm
Eraserhead (USA/1977/dir. by David Lynch) 89 minutes
David Lynch enrolled at the American Film Institute's Center for Advanced Studies in 1970, shortly after Terrence Malick had begun studying there. A year later, Lynch had started work on his first feature film, which he would not only directed but also write, edit, and design. It would not be completed for half a decade. Eraserhead quickly became a cult film. Over the years, this surreal story of a man (Jack Nance) and a mutant baby has provoked, in the words of one critic "every degree of shock, delight, nausea, and angry incomprehension." But its reputation has grown as its themes and images have echoed in Lynch's later work.

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