David Lynch: Fix Your Hearts or Die
Our mini-retrospective revisits the works of the extraordinary visionary director and artist DAVID LYNCH who sadly passed away in January.
A beacon of innovation, risk-tasking and boundless heart – his work meant a profound amount to people all over the world championing a profound message of love against nightmarish, unsettling and surreal backdrops.
Featuring his three-Oscar nominated classics, plus his Palme d’Or winning film – this small season highlights the breadth of his directorial talents – singling out the strange, unsettling and sinister tones of his noirish, romantic and thrilling canon.
A beacon of innovation, risk-tasking and boundless heart – his work meant a profound amount to people all over the world championing a profound message of love against nightmarish, unsettling and surreal backdrops.
Featuring his three-Oscar nominated classics, plus his Palme d’Or winning film – this small season highlights the breadth of his directorial talents – singling out the strange, unsettling and sinister tones of his noirish, romantic and thrilling canon.
About David Lynch
Lynch was born in 1946 in Missoula, and held a career as a visionary painter, musician and actor alongside his singular and exemplary film direction. He won the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement and an Honorary Academy Award amongst many accolades. He died in 2025 triggering a near universal outpouring of love and remembrance.
THE ELEPHANT MAN
Nominated for eight Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director
John Hurt stars in a transformative, heartfelt turn as a disfigured Victorian side-show act, saved by Anthony Hopkins’ renowned surgeon. A film of ceaseless compassion, with dream-like bubbles of an otherwise restrained Lynchian direction.
John Hurt stars in a transformative, heartfelt turn as a disfigured Victorian side-show act, saved by Anthony Hopkins’ renowned surgeon. A film of ceaseless compassion, with dream-like bubbles of an otherwise restrained Lynchian direction.
BLUE VELVET
Nominated for Best Director Oscar
A visionary tale of sexual awakening via an insidious journey into the underworld, Lynch unpicks the white picket fence American suburbs in a sensational shock to the soul. Kyle MacLachlan stars with Lynch for a second time, establishing a decades long partnership. PABST BLUE RIBBON!
A visionary tale of sexual awakening via an insidious journey into the underworld, Lynch unpicks the white picket fence American suburbs in a sensational shock to the soul. Kyle MacLachlan stars with Lynch for a second time, establishing a decades long partnership. PABST BLUE RIBBON!
WILD AT HEART
Cannes Palme d’Or winner
The whole world is wild at heart and weird on top, in this rollicking crime thriller that interweaves a deep love of THE WIZARD OF OZ with some simmering, sexual and sentimental heart.
Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern star as a lovelorn duo on the run from a veritable variety of weirdos.
The whole world is wild at heart and weird on top, in this rollicking crime thriller that interweaves a deep love of THE WIZARD OF OZ with some simmering, sexual and sentimental heart.
Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern star as a lovelorn duo on the run from a veritable variety of weirdos.
MULHOLLAND DRIVE
Nominated for Best Director Oscar
The twisting and oneiric capstone to a career of nightmare-ish odysseys, this exemplary thriller is considered among the greatest films of all time. Following a career best Naomi Watts’ characters’ desperate attempts at stardom in Hollywood, the journey into a revelatory underworld unsettles and mesmerizes in equal measure, disturbing with all the sinew, truth and shadow of a dream.
Silencio.
The twisting and oneiric capstone to a career of nightmare-ish odysseys, this exemplary thriller is considered among the greatest films of all time. Following a career best Naomi Watts’ characters’ desperate attempts at stardom in Hollywood, the journey into a revelatory underworld unsettles and mesmerizes in equal measure, disturbing with all the sinew, truth and shadow of a dream.
Silencio.
