Seven Nights of DAVID LYNCH: BLUE VELVET (R 18+) Presented in 35mm

Step into David Lynch's most seductive and disturbing masterpiece - a pitch-black mystery that peels back the manicured lawns of small-town America to reveal the sexual violence and moral corruption festering beneath. This 1986 neo-noir announced Lynch's arrival as a major filmmaker and remains his most accessible entry point into themes that would define his career.

Kyle MacLachlan stars as Jeffrey Beaumont, a college student who discovers a severed human ear in a vacant lot and becomes obsessed with solving the mystery behind it. His investigation leads him into the twisted world of nightclub singer Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini in a fearless, career-defining performance) and her tormentor, the psychotic Frank Booth - Dennis Hopper's most unhinged and terrifying creation.

Lynch crafts a fever dream that operates as both loving homage to and savage deconstruction of 1950s Americana. The film's opening sequence - from picture-perfect suburbia to the writhing insects beneath the grass - establishes Lynch's central obsession with the darkness lurking behind wholesome facades. Dean Stockwell's unforgettable lip-sync performance to Roy Orbison's "In Dreams" creates one of cinema's most surreal and unsettling moments.

Controversial upon release for its graphic sexual violence, Blue Velvet has been reclaimed as a essential work of American cinema - a film that captures the Reagan era's willful innocence and the violent undercurrents it sought to ignore. The film earned Lynch his second Oscar nomination for Best Director and established the template for his exploration of American nightmares.

This is Lynch at his most potent - beautiful, horrifying, and impossible to forget.

Presented in authentic 35mm film for the true cinematic experience!

When: Friday, January 23rd, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Where: The Revival House Perth
Rating: R 18+ (High impact violence, sexual content and disturbing themes)

Lynch's breakout masterpiece - a beautiful nightmare about the darkness beneath America's white picket fences.