To celebrate the greatness of a true all-around artist like David Lynch (director, photographer, painter, illustrator, actor, creator of animated films, musician, sound designer, object designer), four of his major films are returning to Italian cinemas. These come from the library of the distribution project “Il Cinema Ritrovato al cinema” by the Cineteca di Bologna: Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, The Elephant Man, and The Straight Story.
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Cast
starring Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud
Programme
- June 18, 9:00 PM (ITA sub.)
- June 21, 4:10 PM (ITA sub.)
- June 22, 4:10 PM (ITA sub.)
The story of John Merrick, the elephant man, the freak of proto-industrial Victorian London, deformed by illness and reduced to a freak show. An epochal film that changed the rules of horror, inverting the dynamics between ‘monster’ and spectator: who’s afraid of whom?”. No less ancestral and traumatic than Eraserhead, Hybrid and tragicomic like its protagonist, on the one hand it drags the general public to tears and on the other it sends out shards of horror and memories of Tod Browning” (Roy Menarini). The restoration enhances the black and white of the great Freddie Francis, giving new strength to this very current reflection on the gaze and horror, staged by one of the most visionary directors in the history of cinema.
