David Lynch Remastered: AIFF presents the director's best films in a way you have never seen them before

Even though the director's failing health is keeping him confined to his home, his top films are out there more stunning than ever, thanks to the impressive digital processing that Lynch himself recently edited and approved.

The Athens International Film Festival gathered these prints and presents them to you in a unique tribute for those who crave to watch or re-watch David Lynch's masterpieces in the most beautiful versions that have ever been shown in our country. All films will be screened in brand new, restored and director-approved 4K dcp.

THE FILMS OF THE TRIBUTE

Friday DECEMBER 13th | 22:30
LOST HIGHWAY 1997

Unjustly underrated in its time, today it is deservedly placed among Lynch's top creations. This demonic exercise of submission tells the bizarre story of a saxophonist who is imprisoned for the murder of his wife and one night in his cell he is mysteriously transformed into an unknown young man. The director requests from his viewers to greet this narrative paradox and decode on their own the enigmas of the plot of a disguised horror film that achieves to recreate in cinematic (and utterly fascinating) terms a situation taken from the pages of psychoanalysis books.

Saturday DECEMBER 14th | 22:30
BLUE VELVET 1986

No one was prepared for the shock “Blue Velvet” caused when it was first released in movie theaters and no one ever recovered from it. A combination of modern noir and psychosexuall thriller, with a remarkable Dennis Hopper in the role of the villain and scenes that rightfully caused a sensation in their time, the masterpiece in Lynch's career remains one of the greatest and most radical creations of American cinema, ending up claiming the Oscar for Best Director – one of the most open-minded and progressive nominations ever.

Friday DECEMBER 20th | 23:30
ERASERHEAD 1977

It took six years to complete and once it was released it soon became the ultimate midnight cult movie. It couldn't have happened any other way. Impossible to describe, David Lynch's expressionistic debut is not just a film but a haunting experience. Through a dive into the existential nightmare of a man surrounded by an eerie industrial setting and confronted with adult anxieties, Lynch not only offers cinema its first pure surreal creation, but also introduces the audience to an unprecedented universe that is awe-inspiring primarily because it communicates exclusively through the language and logic of dreams.

Saturday DECEMBER 21st | 23:30
MULHOLLAND DRIVE 2001

With a Best Director award from Cannes Film Festival and a same nomination at the Oscars, the most important film of the 21st century so far (according to the majority of the film critics worldwide) wanders in the shadow of Hollywood, nightcrawling in Los Angeles, in the company of two women that are trying to solve a mystery. Identities are changing, characters are disintegrated, the story breaks down and is rebuilt to reveal hell itself in a world where people exist only as puppets, the truth is fabricated and love is yet another orchestrated lie. The dream is suddenly transformed into a nightmare. And the rest become silence. Silencio!

INFORMATION

Tickets for the screenings of the tribute can be obtained online via more.com or directly at the counter of the movie theater, during opening hours. Tickets for each screening cost 8 euros.

Buy tickets online here: 
www.more.com/gr-el/tickets/cinema/david-lynch-remastered/

CINOBO OPERA 1
57 Akadimias Str., Athens