MOVIE CLUB NYC: LYNCH × BUÑUEL

Not just a screening. An experience.

This is not a standard film screening or a casual movie night.

Movie Club NYC presents a curated immersive evening, where the focus is not only on the films, but on atmosphere, rhythm, and carefully paced pauses.

The films are presented as parts of a single journey, with an intentional prelude and thoughtful intermissions that allow the atmosphere to deepen and linger.

This format is designed for live presence and collective viewing.

This evening is conceived as a dialogue between two filmmakers - Luis Buñuel and David Lynch - connected not by style, but by a shared way of thinking.

Both rejected classical narrative and explanatory logic.

For them, cinema is not a story, but a dream, an allegory, a state.

In Buñuel’s work, absurdity exposes social rituals and the illusion of a “normal” society.

In Lynch’s, the same fracture runs inward — through identity, memory, and guilt.

"The Exterminating Angel" reveals a society unable to step outside its own rules.

"Lost Highway" depicts a mind trapped in an endless internal loop.

One film is a social nightmare.

The other is psychological.

Buñuel began this cinematic language.

Lynch carried it into modern consciousness.

David Lynch has often spoken about the influence of European surrealists — and particularly Luis Buñuel, who long before him dismantled conventional cinematic logic and proved that film could exist according to the laws of dreams rather than reality.

Buñuel’s style is cold and precise: he uses simple, almost realistic imagery to dismantle social structures from within. His absurdity is calm — and therefore merciless.

Lynch’s style is sensual and hypnotic: sound, rhythm, and repetition matter more than logic. He works not with society, but with the inner fractures of the human mind.

"Lost Highway"

(dir. David Lynch)

The evening begins with Lynch — a filmmaker who pushed surrealism to its psychological extreme.

In Lost Highway, he exposes the myth of “normal” suburban America: behind neat houses and orderly lives lie fractured identities, loops of memory, and unbearable guilt.

This film functions like a dream — it does not explain, it pulls you in.

"The Exterminating Angel"

(dir. Luis Buñuel, in original language with English subtitles)

In the second film, Buñuel transfers the same nightmare into the external world — a closed bourgeois society that suddenly loses the ability to leave its own space.

Without mysticism or explanation, he reveals how fragile social rituals and the illusion of control truly are.

One exposes society.

The other exposes consciousness.

This is not a double feature.

It is a single curated evening, constructed as a continuous experience.

Guests will be welcomed with a complimentary drink.

Additional beverages will be available by donation throughout the evening.

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

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