Friday, April 4th – Thursday, April 10th!

With his passing this year, the Naro presents the second of two retrospectives of David Lynch’s work, beginning Friday, April 4th. Much like his body of work, David Lynch often defied tidy description. As a filmmaker it was possibly more instructive to refer to him as a surrealist artist working in the medium of film, rather than a traditional movie director and writer. From his debut feature Eraserhead (1978), it was clear that Lynch held a deep fascination with the utterly grotesque residing just below the surface of the everyday. He would use that fascination to his advantage with his second film, the hugely successful The Elephant Man (1980), only to be dealt a bitter blow by the disastrous, costly experience of “Dune” (1984). However, with the quasi-autobiographical thriller Blue Velvet (1986), Lynch would establish a thematic aesthetic – dubbed “Lynchian” – that he would continue to evolve throughout his career. Join us for a retrospective of five of his best films. **NEW ADDITION** We have just added the 2025 documentary I Know Catherine, the Log Lady to the retrospective, which features Lynch’s last screen appearance.

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