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Free Screening: David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet”
Wednesday, April 9, 2025 @ 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
A young man investigates a mysterious nightclub singer and the psychopathic criminals who kidnapped her child.
The San Francisco Public Library launches its100 Years of Surrealism film series with a screening of director David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, a stunning example of Surrealism’s influence in American cinema. In Lynch’s dreamlike, subversive film the discovery of a severed human ear leads a young man to investigate a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and the psychopathic criminals who kidnapped her child.
“Brilliant and unsettling…this is the work of an all-American visionary—and a master film stylist.” —Stephen Schiff, Vanity Fair
R, 120 mins., 1986. Closed captions (CC) in English.
More 100 Years of Surrealism programs: on.sfpl.org/100Surrealism