Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland.
Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.
Trapped between duty and doubt, surrounded by power and privilege, young Prince Hamlet dares to ask the ultimate question – you know the one.
National Theatre Deputy Artistic Director, Robert Hastie (Standing at the Sky’s Edge, Operation Mincemeat) directs this sharp, stylish and darkly funny reimagining.
Five-time Olivier Award-winner Imelda Staunton (The Crown) joins forces with her real-life daughter Bessie Carter (Bridgerton) for the very first time, playing mother and daughter in Bernard Shaw’s incendiary moral classic.
Vivie Warren is a woman ahead of her time. Her mother, however, is a product of that old patriarchal order. Exploiting it has earned Mrs. Warren a fortune – but at what cost?
This vibrant documentary looks back at Martha Cooper's life from her days of photojournalism to documenting New York graffiti and street art culture in the 1970s and '80s. It tells the tale of how she became an unlikely and humble heroine with god like status to many street artists.
Sailor and Lula are two lovers that fate seems intent on keeping apart. In this case, fate is Lula's mother, Marietta Fortune, a desperate woman who hates Sailor and will do anything to keep him away from her daughter. After Sailor is released from prison, he and Lula set off on a road trip to California, all the time aware that they are being hunted by Marietta and the violent and dangerous men she's hired to find them.
This screening will be proceeded by David Lynch short film.
When Henry discovers that his estranged girlfriend, Mary X, has given birth to a bizarrely deformed baby, he wants to do the right thing by her. They marry, but after a tumultuous and brief time living together, Mary leaves Henry who then cares for the ill baby himself. A bizarre sequence of events and dreams follow, including a woman who appears dancing in Henry's radiator.
Years in the making, Eraserhead is a true labour of love, a long-lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and surreal beauty.
This screening will be proceeded by David Lynch short film.
Saxophonist Fred Madison starts receiving mysterious VHS tapes of him and his wife in their home and is tortured by the idea that his wife is having an affair. After being suddenly convicted of her murder, he inexplicably disappears and is replaced by a young mechanic leading a different life. “We’ve met before, haven’t we?”
The screening of Lost Highway on Thursday 7th August will have an extended introduction from Simeon Walker, discussing the music of Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch, and the importance of music in Lynch's films.
Alongside web series and many other short form works, David Lynch created over 60 shorts during his career and this collection of six cover some of his best surreal earlier films, exploring his boundless creativity and keen eye for experimentation and fascination with the strange, dark side of our natures.
• Getting Sick (4mins)
• The Alphabet (4mins)
• The Grandmother (33mins)
• The Amputee, Version 1 (5mins)
• The Amputee, Version 2 (4mins)
• Premonitions Following an Evil Deed (1min)
Set in the fictional Pacific Northwest town of Twin Peaks, this hugely influential series follows the investigation led by FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper into the murder of local Homecoming Queen Laura Palmer. Our good friends and self-confessed Twin Peaks obsessives The Evolution of Horror have picked three classic episodes, one from each series, including, yes, Episode 8 from The Return.
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Series One, Episode 3 (includes the Log Lady Intro)
Returning home to visit his father, who is in intensive care, young Jeffrey Beaumont stumbles upon a severed human ear in a field. With local police seemingly uninterested, Jeffrey teams up with Sandy, a police officer's daughter, to do their own investigation, leading them into an ever darker world of crime, strangeness and obsession...
With a truly terrifying turn by Dennis Hopper, Blue Velvet uncovers the trademark Lynch obsession: that a dark underworld exists beneath the American Dream, lurking behind the white picket fences.