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ERASERHEAD
1977
Director
David Lynch
Starring
Jack Nance
Charlotte Stewart
Allen Joseph
Jeanne Bates
Runtime
89 MINUTES
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A dream of dark and troubling things . . .
David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, ERASERHEAD, is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty. With its mesmerizing black-and-white photography, evocative sound design, and unforgettably enigmatic performance by Jack Nance, this visionary nocturnal odyssey continues to haunt American cinema like no other film.
ERASERHEAD follows hapless protagonist Henry (Nance), with his furrowed brow and electroshock pompadour, as he navigates an inhospitable nocturnal landscape and struggles with the anxiety of fatherhood. Eraserhead is a triumph of interiority, a literal head movie that might be taking place within someone’s traumatized skull, and one of the definitive cult movies of all time.
“ERASERHEAD is my most spiritual movie. No one understands when I say that, but it is. ERASERHEAD was growing in a certain way, and I didn’t know what it meant. I was looking for a key to unlock what these sequences were saying. Of course, I understood some of it; but I didn’t know the thing that just pulled it all together. And it was a struggle. So I got out my Bible and I started reading. And one day, I read a sentence. And I closed the Bible, because that was it; that was it. And then I saw the thing as a whole. And it fulfilled this vision for me, 100 percent. I don’t think I’ll ever say what that sentence was.” — David Lynch
David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, ERASERHEAD, is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty. With its mesmerizing black-and-white photography, evocative sound design, and unforgettably enigmatic performance by Jack Nance, this visionary nocturnal odyssey continues to haunt American cinema like no other film.
ERASERHEAD follows hapless protagonist Henry (Nance), with his furrowed brow and electroshock pompadour, as he navigates an inhospitable nocturnal landscape and struggles with the anxiety of fatherhood. Eraserhead is a triumph of interiority, a literal head movie that might be taking place within someone’s traumatized skull, and one of the definitive cult movies of all time.
“ERASERHEAD is my most spiritual movie. No one understands when I say that, but it is. ERASERHEAD was growing in a certain way, and I didn’t know what it meant. I was looking for a key to unlock what these sequences were saying. Of course, I understood some of it; but I didn’t know the thing that just pulled it all together. And it was a struggle. So I got out my Bible and I started reading. And one day, I read a sentence. And I closed the Bible, because that was it; that was it. And then I saw the thing as a whole. And it fulfilled this vision for me, 100 percent. I don’t think I’ll ever say what that sentence was.” — David Lynch