DAVID LYNCH REMASTERED: Premiere Nights present a tribute to David Lynch at the Cinobo Opera House

From 13 to 21 December, the Athens International Film Festival Premiere Nights will present restored prints of David Lynch’s films

Athens International Film Festival Premiere Nights has collected the prints and presents them in a unique tribute to those who want to see or re-watch David Lynch’s masterpieces.

All films will be shown in brand new, radically restored and director-approved 4K dcp.

THE FILMS IN THE SPECIAL EDITION

Friday 13th DECEMBER | 22:30
LOST BUS | LOST HIGHWAY 1997

Unjustly underrated at the time, this film is now deservedly regarded as one of Lynch’s finest. This demonic exercise in suggestion tells the bizarre story of a saxophonist imprisoned for the murder of his wife who, one night in his cell, mysteriously transforms into an unknown young man. The director asks his audience to welcome this narrative paradox and to decipher for themselves the mysteries of the plot of a disguised horror film that manages to reconstruct in cinematic (and utterly fascinating) terms a situation taken from the pages of psychoanalytical books.

Saturday 14 DECEMBER | 22:30
BLUE VELVET | BLUE VELVET 1986

No one was prepared for the shock of Blue Velvet when it was first released, and no one has ever recovered from it. A combination of modern noir and psychosexual thriller, with an unforgettable Dennis Hopper villain and scenes that were rightly sensational at the time, Lynch’s career masterpiece remains one of the greatest and most radical creations in American cinema, and was nominated for a Best Director Oscar – one of the most open and progressive nominations in the annals of the institution.

Friday 20 DECEMBER | 23:30
ERASERHEAD 1977

It took six years to make, but once it was released it quickly became the ultimate midnight cult film. It couldn’t have been any different. Impossible to describe, David Lynch’s expressionistic debut is not just a film, but a haunting experience. By immersing himself in the existential nightmare of a man surrounded by an eerie industrial environment and confronted with the anxieties of adulthood, Lynch not only gives cinema its first pure surrealist creation, but also introduces the audience to an unprecedented universe, awe-inspiring above all because it communicates solely through the language and logic of dreams.

Saturday 21 DECEMBER | 23:30
MULHOLLAND DRIVE 2001

Winner of the Directing Award at the Cannes Film Festival and nominated for an Oscar, the most important film of the 21st century (according to the majority of the world’s critics) takes place in the shadow of Hollywood, in a Los Angeles nightclub, with two women trying to solve a mystery. Identities change, characters disintegrate, the story collapses and reconstructs to reveal hell itself in a world where people exist only as puppets, truth is fabricated and love is another staged lie. The dream suddenly turns into a nightmare. And the rest becomes silence.