MoMA PRESENTS A WEEK-LONG RUN OF ERASERHEAD, DAVID LYNCH’S DEBUT FEATURE

Screening of a New Print Recently Restored by the Museum

Preservation Funding provided by The Film Foundation and The Hollywood Foreign Press Association

PREMIERES: ERASERHEAD

January 18–24, 2007 The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters

NEW YORK, December 20, 2006—The Museum of Modern Art presents David Lynch’s debut feature, Eraserhead (1977), in a new print recently restored by the Museum, with funding provided by The Film Foundation and The Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The film is being screened for a weeklong run January 18–24, 2007, in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters, as part of the ongoing Premieres series. This screening is organized by Steven Higgins, Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art. When it was released, David Lynch’s Eraserhead was immediately hailed as a nightmarish vision of parenthood and relationships. Shot in grainy black and white, the film’s informal narrative concerns the travails of a couple (Jack Nance and Charlotte Stewart) as they deal with the arrival of a humanoid baby with alien features and a ravenous appetite. The expressionistic look and feel of the film, its industrial soundtrack, and a claustrophobic domestic setting populated by characters who exhibit a mixture of ennui and bewilderment established Lynch as an assured director of offbeat and unsettling work, which he was to parlay into even greater successes in later years.

PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE FOLLOWING PRESS SCREENING ON THU., JANUARY 4:

10:00 Eraserhead. 89 min.

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SCREENING SCHEDULE

ERASERHEAD

Eraserhead. 1977. USA. Written and directed by David Lynch. With John Nance, Charlotte Stewart. Filmed over the course of five years, as financing and conditions allowed, Eraserhead was David Lynch's first feature-length film. It is an intensely felt, deeply troubling view of a dystopian world, more nightmare than movie, and one which Lynch has steadfastly refused to clarify or explain since its release nearly thirty years ago. Restored by MoMA from the original film elements deposited with the Museum by David Lynch, who participated in the project. This is the premiere of the Museum's restoration. 89 min.

Thursday, January 18, 8:30 Friday, January 19, 6:00 Saturday, January 20, 5:30 Sunday, January 21, 2:00 Monday, January 22, 8:00 Wednesday, January 24, 6:00

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