Music Box Theatre
3733 N Southport Ave
773.871.6604
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Eraserhead
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Friday July 25, 2008 (midnight)
Saturday July 26, 2008 (midnight)
Friday Aug 1, 2008 (midnight)
Saturday Aug 2, 2008 (midnight)
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- Price
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$9.25
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Pointedly personal and unapologetically polemical, Eraserhead is David Lynch's 1977 invitation into a wonderful well of weird. The offbeat classic is a miracle of mannered mania, with its nonlinear veneer, mise-en-scène nonpareil, and organisms that never seem quite organic. His nervous hero, Henry Spencer, is forced to marry his girlfriend and move her into his one-room residence after learning of his deformed baby. From there, the film becomes a roller coaster of strange sights (Henry's crushed cranium, the cheeky lady in the radiator) and even stranger sounds (interminable mechanical humming, the baby's bracing whine). Through his art-house argot and not-of-this-earth sensibility, Lynch imagines an exceedingly bizarre new world.
