124 mins - United States / United Kingdom 1980 Director: David Lynch Starring: John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft David Lynch’s second feature THE ELEPHANT MAN was his first mainstream commercial and critical success. John Merrick is known as ‘The Elephant Man’, he is forced into becoming a circus sideshow freak and spurned by society due to the disfiguring disabilities he was born with. Rescued by a well-meaning surgeon, Merrick escapes a life of prejudice and cruelty as he tries to fit into a world ruled by Victorian sensibilities. This is an intensely moving true story of humanity and bravery. “One of the most moving screen dramas of the 20th century” Mark Kermode FROM THE MIND OF DAVID LYNCH On 15 January 2025, we lost David Lynch, one of the most original, singular and unique artists of American cinema and television in the last fifty years. Some of his most notable films include ERASERHEAD, BLUE VELVET and WILD AT HEART as well as of course the seminal TV series TWIN PEAKS. The term ‘Lynchian’ is used to describe something that has a dreamlike quality
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