NJ Film Festival: Eraserhead
David Lynch’s remarkable first feature is a true original and a cult classic. Like a surrealist film, it has its own dream-like logic, mixing black comedy, horror, science fiction, and pure fantasy. The social outcast Henry, living in a sordid city of smoke, steam, and debris, is forced to marry his girlfriend when she pronounces him to be the father of her deformed child. Best seen as a dark nightmare about sexuality and parenthood, Eraserhead astounds through its expressionist sets and photography, startling industrial soundtrack, and relentless imaginative fluency.1976; 89 min.
Part of the David Lynch Cinema 101 film appreciation course!
Loree Bldg. #024 (Near corner of Nichol Avenue and George Street), 72 Lipman Drive,
Douglass College Campus, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
$7=General; $5=Students+Seniors; $4=Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC Friends.
