Free Screening: David Lynch's "Blue Velvet"

Schedule

Wed Apr 09 2025 at 05:30 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

San Francisco Public Library, Koret Auditorium (Lower Level) | San Francisco, CA

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A young man investigates a mysterious nightclub singer and the psychopathic criminals who kidnapped her child.
About this Event

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

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San Francisco Public Library, Koret Auditorium (Lower Level), 100 Larkin St., San Francisco, United States

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