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Join us on August 4 at 1 p.m. for our weekly Sunday screening series, featuring director David Lynch’s Palme d’Or-winning fantasia”Wild at Heart” (1990) in digital projection.
WILD AT HEART | 1990 | DIRECTOR: David Lynch | WITH: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Diane Ladd, Harry Dean Stanton | RUNNING TIME: 2H 5M | RATED R for strong bloody violence, vulgar language, sexual content, nudity, adult themes | DIGITAL PROJECTION
Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula’s mom has hired to kill Sailor.
”Wild at Heart” has as its inspiration Barry Gifford’s road novel about Lula Pace Fortune and her lover, Sailor Ripley. Lula is just 20 years old and self-described as hotter than Georgia asphalt. Sailor Ripley is a gentle young man who has just served 22 months and 18 days for manslaughter, having killed a man who attacked him with a knife.
“Mr. Lynch has taken this slim, vivid work and pumped it up into a cockeyed epic that goes back to the early days of Pop art.
“In the center of the picture are the sweetly dopey, flat, shadowless figures of Lula (Laura Dern) and Sailor (Nicolas Cage), driving toward Big Tuna and earnestly realizing their destiny. Along the way they make intense love, smoke Kools and Camels, eat burgers, drink beer and consider the future (”I’m sorry, Sailor,” says Lula after some introspection, ”but the ozone layer is disappearing.”)
“Around Lula and Sailor Mr. Lynch has created a kind of frieze of melodramatic characters and events – flashbacks as well as concurrent actions, which sometimes enrich the film and sometimes have no pertinence except as found objects. It’s a matter of scale again.” — Vincent Canby, The New York Times
The screening will be introduced by Bill Cosford Cinema manager Rene Rodriguez. Tickets are $5 and available at link above. Students use code UMSTUDENT at checkout for free admission. Cane card must be shown at the door.
