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David Lynch

Eraserhead (1977) Surreal, nightmarish film that started David Lynch's directorial career. David spent five years in the making of this cult film about a zombie-like misfit, his girlfriend and their mutant offspring. Mel Brooks, after screening this film, embraced david as a genius and hired him for The Elephant Man (see below).

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The Elephant Man (1980) "I am not an animal! I am a human being!" David Lynch's first big budget film with Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt. Set in Victorian England, the film follows the life of a grotesquely deformed man and his struggle to be treated with respect and dignity. John Hurt commented that during the eight to nine hours in the makeup chair, he started to believe he was John Merrick, "the elephant man".

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Dune (1984) An ambitious, epic, utterly mind-boggling, and, let's admit it, all-out weird, adaptation of Frank Herbert's classic science fiction novel, Dune remains one of the most controversial films in the director's exceedingly provocative career. The story (if Dune can be said to have just one story) is complex and convoluted in the epic tradition; it has something to do with political intrigue and a planet that is home to a precious spice and gigantic sand worms. Think Shakespeare's Henry IV with a dash of Tremors, and set in another galaxy. DVD VHS

Blue Velvet (1986) David Lynch peeks behind the picket fences of small-town America to reveal a corrupt shadow world of malevolence, sadism, and madness. From the opening shots Lynch turns the Technicolor picture postcard images of middle class homes and tree-lined lanes into a dreamy vision on the edge of nightmare. After his father collapses in a preternaturally eerie sequence, college boy Kyle MacLachlan returns home and stumbles across a severed human ear in a vacant lot. With the help of sweetly innocent high school girl (Laura Dern), he turns junior detective and uncovers a frightening yet darkly compelling world of voyeurism and sex. Drawn deeper into the brutal world of drug dealer and blackmailer Frank, played with raving mania by an obscenity-shouting Dennis Hopper in a career-reviving performance, he loses his innocence and his moral bearings when confronted with pure, unexplainable evil. Isabella Rossellini is terrifyingly desperate as Hopper's sexual slave who becomes MacLachlan's illicit lover, and Dean Stockwell purrs through his role as Hopper's oh-so-suave buddy. DVD VHS

Wild at Heart (1990) Wild at Heart is an utterly random and ugly experience with pockets of startling imagery and inspired set pieces. Based on a Barry Gifford novel, the film stars Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern as lovers on the lam whose relationship is tested and who meet some truly dangerous wackos (including an almost-simian Willem Dafoe). Lynch's thoughts seem to be everywhere, and he expects the audience to keep up with a story that seems more a collection of avant-garde whims than a coherent vision with the intuitive brilliance of his Blue Velvet. Cage gives one of his more chaotic performances, but then he was just reading Lynch's signposts. --Tom Keogh

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