Deeper in Dreams: A David Lynch Retrospective
CELEBRATE DAVID LYNCH
This year, the world said goodbye to a singular visionary, an artist whose fearless imagination reshaped cinema, sound, and the visual arts. David Lynch created worlds that were at once fascinating and unsettling, dreamlike and nightmarish, revealing the hidden paradoxes of human existence with unflinching honesty.
Through darkened hallways and suburban streets, beauty and horror, he gave us astonishing works of art we didn’t know we needed, and that we will never forget.
In honor of his extraordinary legacy, this retrospective revisits feature films, shorts, shows, visions, and more (with some surprises!) that defined his career and changed the way we experience storytelling on screen.
FULL LIST OF TITLES, OCTOBER-DECEMBER:
ERASERHEAD • ERASERHEAD STORIES • LOST HIGHWAY • THE SHORT FILMS OF DAVID LYNCH PART 1 • DUNE • DAVID LYNCH: THE ART LIFE • HOTEL ROOM & DUMBLAND • THE SHORT FILMS OF DAVID LYNCH PART 2 • DAVID LYNCH ADS + MUSIC VIDEOS • LYNCH/OZ • TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN • I KNOW CATHERINE, THE LOG LADY • BLUE VELVET • BLUE VELVET REVISITED • BLUE VELVET LOST FOOTAGE • WILD AT HEART • TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME • TWIN PEAKS: THE MISSING PIECES • THE STRAIGHT STORY • MULHOLLAND DRIVE • INLAND EMPIRE • MORE THINGS THAT HAPPENED
October-December
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Famously inspired by the industrial hellscape that was Philadelphia’s now-deemed Loft District (or Eraserhood, iykyk), David Lynch put all of his visions, ideas, anxieties, and love into his debut feature about an uncertain man on the precipice of fatherhood. 35mm print provided by Exhumed Films.
Director:
DAVID LYNCH
Runtime:
89
min
Genre
Horror
Category
35MM Screening
Curated
Formats
35MM
Release
1977
Straight from David Lynch himself comes an endearing and enlightening documentary where the iconiclast narrates the origin, influences, and experiences of creating one of the first ever true midnight films.
Director:
DAVID LYNCH
Runtime:
85
min
Genre
DOCUMENTARY
Category
Curated
Release
2001
Doppelgängers, gangsters, magic moments, and a mysterious man with a fun parlor trick swirl in a dreamy haze in David Lynch’s unforgettable foray into the lengths one goes to forget what they’ve done.
Director:
DAVID LYNCH
Runtime:
134
min
Genre
THRILLER
Category
Curated
Formats
4K
Release
1997
Though most known for his 11 feature films and TWIN PEAKS, David Lynch created over 50 short films that showcase an artist untethered by genre conventions, experimenting with the medium itself. From the inane to the horrific, most of the time both, we present a collection of David Lynch’s earliest short films. A whole new experience on the big screen!
Director:
DAVID LYNCH
Runtime:
60
min
Genre
Horror
Category
Curated
The barren, unforgiving desert landscape of Arrakis is a far cry from the burbling horror of Anytown, USA that permeates many of Lynch’s typical film settings. Yet beneath the shadow of the towering Shai-Hulud is a story of a young man named Paul Atreides whose visions of a violent, religious jihad in his name propels him reluctantly towards his fate. Filled with phenomenal production design and an inspired cast, DUNE offers the one and only glimpse at Lynch utilizing a large budget to realize his dreams.
Director:
DAVID LYNCH
Runtime:
137
min
Genre
SCI-FI
Category
Curated
Formats
4K
Release
1984
Through his own one-of-a-kind words, David Lynch relives the experiences and influences of his upbringing and early days in Philadelphia that fed the dreams and nightmares of his films.
Director:
RICK BARNES, OLIVIA NEERGAARD-HOLM, JON NGYUEN
Runtime:
88
min
Genre
DOCUMENTARY
Category
Curated
David Lynch Retrospective
Release
2016
“For a millennium the space for the hotel room existed—undefined. Mankind captured it and gave it shape and passed through. And sometimes when passing through, brushing up against the secret names of truth.” - David Lynch.
Presenting 2 episodes of HOTEL ROOM (1st and 3rd) directed by Lynch as well as Lynch’s animated series DumbLand!
Director:
DAVID LYNCH, JAMES SIGNORELLI
Runtime:
107
min
Genre
Horror
Category
Curated
David Lynch Retrospective
Release
1993
Though most famous for his feature films and television series, David Lynch created a myriad of short films throughout his career that span the inane and profound. We’ve gathered up a selection of some our favorite Lynch oddities to screen!
Director:
DAVID LYNCH
Runtime:
80
min
Genre
Horror
SHORTS
Category
Curated
David Lynch Retrospective
Unbeknownst to many fans of his features and TWIN PEAKS, David Lynch had a long history of directing iconic music videos and commercials. Though some of these relics have shown their age, we encourage all to come out for a $6 CineMonday presentation of Lynch’s visionary contribution to ad campaigns and music videos of years past.
Director:
DAVID LYNCH
Runtime:
80
min
Genre
SHORTS
Category
Curated
David Lynch Retrospective
Alexandre O. Philippe’s astonishing documentary assembles commentators to ruminate on the fascinating connections between THE WIZARD OF OZ and the work of David Lynch.
Director:
ALEXANDRE O. PHILIPPE
Runtime:
109
min
Category
Curated
David Lynch Retrospective
Release
2022
It’s happening again…for one-weekend-only at the Film Society East, as PFS presents David Lynch’s swan song masterpiece in its entirety. Celebrate his final film with special guest host George “That Fucker Ray” Griffith as we watch Mr. Jackpots, Candy, The Nine Inch Nails, and more make their mark on a legacy 25 years in the making.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 14 | 7:00PM | EPISODES 1-4 /// SATURDAY NOVEMBER 15 | 12:00PM | EPISODES 5-11 /// SUNDAY NOVEMBER 16 | 12:00PM | EPISODES 11-18
Director:
DAVID LYNCH
Runtime:
240
min
Category
Curated
David Lynch Retrospective
Formats
4K
Release
2016
Filmmaker Richard Green’s moving ode to the life and death of the beloved Catherine “The Log Lady” Coulson told through the filmmakers, actors, artists, fans, and more whose lives she changed forever.
Director:
RICHARD GREEN
Runtime:
114
min
Category
Curated
David Lynch Retrospective
Release
2025
DAVID LYNCH | USA | 1986 | 121 MIN | R | ENGLISH | 35MM Cast: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern Part of the Philadelphia Film Society’s Director Series – Deeper in Dreams: A David Lynch Retrospective This year, the world said goodbye to a…
Director:
DAVID LYNCH
Runtime:
121
min
Genre
THRILLER
Category
35MM Screening
Curated
David Lynch Retrospective
Formats
35MM
Release
1986
In 1985, Peter Braatz got exclusive rights to document the making of the cult thriller BLUE VELVET by David Lynch. Most of this footage has stayed hidden until now.
BLUE VELVET REVISITED uses Super 8 footage, sound recordings, photos, paintings, objects, and relics that Braatz collected during filming. These materials have been carefully edited into a new film, telling the story entirely through images created by the documentary’s author, Peter Braatz.
Director:
PETER BRAATZ
Runtime:
86
min
Genre
DOCUMENTARY
Category
Curated
David Lynch Retrospective
Release
2016
A collection of deleted and extended scenes presented on the big screen from David Lynch’s BLUE VELVET.
Director:
DAVID LYNCH
Runtime:
50
min
Genre
THRILLER
Category
Curated
David Lynch Retrospective
Release
2014
Madly in love and on the run, Sailor and Lula take to the yellow brick road with a wicked mother and a bevy of despicable men on their trail in Lynch’s sole Palme d’Or winner.
Director:
DAVID LYNCH
Runtime:
125
min
Genre
THRILLER
Category
Curated
David Lynch Retrospective
Special Screening
Formats
DCP
Release
1990
G-rated, yet Lynch all the way through, this wildly overlooked masterpiece is a sweet, poignant tale about a weathered Richard Farnsworth determined to drive his lawnmower across state lines to reconnect with his ailing brother.
Director:
DAVID LYNCH
Runtime:
112
min
Genre
DRAMA
Category
35MM Screening
Curated
David Lynch Retrospective
Formats
35MM
Release
1999
Whether or not you binged the series right before indulging in this surreal, dreamy, and violent masterpiece, the whiplash is real. This Lynch work is a terrifying and hauntingly beautiful noir about the evil that lies within man and a glimmer of hope in the guise of a high school girl named Laura Palmer.
Director:
DAVID LYNCH
Runtime:
134
min
Genre
Horror
Category
After Hours
Curated
David Lynch Retrospective
Formats
4K
DCP
Release
1992
Like Laura Palmer’s secret diary stashed in agoraphobe Harold “Mystery in her Life” Smith’s home, THE MISSING PIECES offers few answers, but many new theories, about what is really going on in the small town of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks.
Director:
DAVID LYNCH
Runtime:
91
min
Genre
Horror
Category
Curated
David Lynch Retrospective
Release
2014
Silencio—David Lynch’s sexy, surreal 2001 Hollywood mystery serves up a slice of Los Angeles neo-noir like no film before or after, as an aspiring actress and a beautiful amnesiac navigate conspiracy, identity, and desire at the poisoned core of La La Land.
Director:
DAVID LYNCH
Runtime:
147
min
Genre
THRILLER
Category
Curated
David Lynch Retrospective
Formats
4K
Release
2001
An experimental, stream-of-nightmare odyssey finds Lynch embracing the horrors of a standard def digital camera as he chronicles the unraveling of a Hollywood actress (Laura Dern) amidst a cursed film production.
Director:
DAVID LYNCH
Runtime:
180
min
Genre
Horror
Category
Curated
David Lynch Retrospective
Formats
4K
Release
2006
A woman is still in trouble in this collection of deleted and extended scenes from Lynch’s final theatrically released fever dream, INLAND EMPIRE.
Director:
DAVID LYNCH
Runtime:
76
min
Genre
Horror
Category
Curated
David Lynch Retrospective
Release
2007