WEDNESDAY 22 | 7:30 PM & 7:45 PM | SOLD OUT
DAVID LYNCH | USA | 1990 | 125 MIN | R | ENGLISH
"I always say, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is my biggest influence. There is something about the mood here. The fear, insanity, corruption, filth, despair, violence in the air was so beautiful to me." - David Lynch, PAFA, 2014
On Wednesday, January 22nd, we celebrate our mutual love for the iconoclast filmmaker and artist of the past 50 years with a special screening of WILD AT HEART, Lynch’s most overt ode to his love of the yellow brick road.
Before the screening, join us around the corner at Glory Beer Bar & Kitchen (126 Chestnut St.) from 5-7:30 PM as we remember the beloved director’s most vivid dreams and nightmares.
Don’t worry, this won’t be the last of David Lynch at PFS, as we prepare some very special screenings and events later in the year.
About the Film:
Madly in love and on the run, Sailor and Lula take to the yellow brick road with a wicked mother and a bevy of despicable men on their trail in Lynch’s sole Palme d’Or winner.
You know you found the right movie when a violent bar room brawl at a metal concert leads immediately to a snakeskin-wearing Nicholas Cage jumping on stage to do a soulful rendition of Elvis Presley’s “Love Me” to an adoring Laura Dern. Many scenes of David Lynch’s cheered and jeered-at Cannes winner is filled with a mishmash of hyperviolence, sexcapades, and outright ridiculousness that the simplest way to describe it is a dark comedy. Arguably his one and only of the genre, WILD AT HEART captures the star-crossed lovers Sailor and Lula (Cage and Dern), of Berry Gifford’s long running novella series, on the run from Lula’s makeup smeared, frenzied mother Marietta (Diane Ladd). In between bouts of motel trysts, the two must work with and outsmart a number of disturbing gangsters including Willem Dafoe’s badly-in-need-of-floss Bobby Peru. WILD AT HEART kicked off Lynch’s 90s with a bang that was quickly subdued by Cannes’ outright rejection of his follow up selection on the Croissette, TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (Madness!), and remains an oddity in a director’s oeuvre built on it.
Cast: Laura Dern, Nicolas Cage, Diane Ladd, Willem Dafoe