Being a huge fan of the film, I was not so secretly hoping she would enjoy it, but I was prepared for any outcome.

We agreed that she wouldn’t tell me anything about her viewing experience ahead of time so I couldn’t prepare for either a good response or a bad one. Eileen watched the film and I did a phone interview with her two days after she viewed it for the first time. Hope you enjoy this new feature and look for the latest installment each Thursday evening!įor this installment of “Learn Lynch,” we decided to do something a little different. Do you remember what it was like to watch these films for the first time? All of the thoughts and feelings? Or if this is your first time watching Lynch films, allow us to be your companion through this wonderful and strange journey.

Get tickets for the conversation.“Learn Lynch” is a new series here on 25YL where one of our writers watches a David Lynch film for the first time and reviews it. On December 14 at 8:00 p.m., Dern joins us for an onstage discussion spanning her illustrious career, with a focus on her recent triumphs on the big and small screen ( Certain Women, Wilson, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Big Little Lies, Twin Peaks: The Return). Part of a daylong celebration of Laura Dern’s ongoing contribution to the history of screen acting. A striking counterpoint to her previous Lynch persona, Sandy, Blue Velvet’s paragon of youthful innocence, Lula is mature, self-possessed, and recklessly romantic. The film also features Dern in one of her most memorable roles (at times acting opposite her mother, Diane Ladd, whose performance earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress).

Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, Wild at Heart is Lynch’s first all-out comedy, but despite the prevailing tone of aggressive absurdity, it contains some of the filmmaker’s most harrowing scenes. Lula (Dern) and Sailor (Nicolas Cage) set out from Cape Fear, North Carolina, in a Ford Thunderbird, headed for the obligatory Oz of California but end up detained in the Texas hellhole of Big Tuna. With its good and wicked witches, and references to Toto and the yellow brick road, David Lynch’s Wild at Heart is an overt, elaborate homage to The Wizard of Oz.

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