Blue Velvet

Cabaret Cinema

Friday January 15, 2010 @ 9:30 PM

David Lynch, U.S., 1986 (120 min)

Jeffrey is just your regular suburban gent until he finds a severed ear in an overgrown backlot. Thereafter he descends into a hidden world full of grotesque archetypes that clash violently with the nascent sense of his own boundaries. Lynch's movie famously makes currency of the Hollywoodified iconography of middle America to expose the shadow side of a cultural norm. Featuring landmark performances by Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, and Laura Dern.

Introduced by Nick Antosca

Free with a $7 bar minimum

Nick Antosca writes for Film Threat, Interview, The Daily Beast, and The Huffington Post. He is also the author of the novels Midnight Picnic (Word Riot Press, 2009) and Fires (Impetus Press, 2006), and is a contributor to Brain Press's forthcoming anthology Brain on Lynch.

Inspired by the exhibition The Red Book of C. G. Jung the Red Book series presents classic films that explore Jungian themes, including the various archetypes and the exploration of the self through fantasy.