Eraserhead - La mente che cancella

Titolo originale: Eraserhead
Regia: David Lynch
Anno: 1977
Origine: United States of America
Generi: Horror Fantasy
Tag: baby | nightmare | mutant | claustrophobia | parents-in-law | pencil | surrealism | torture | parallel world |
Cast: Jack Nance Charlotte Stewart Allen Joseph Jeanne Bates Judith Roberts Laurel Near Jack Fisk Jean Lange Thomas Coulson John Monez Darwin Joston T. Max Graham Hal Landon Jr. Jennifer Lynch Brad Keeler Gill Dennis Toby Keeler Jack Walsh

Henry Spencer vive da solo in uno squallido appartamento fra le allucinazioni della sua mente malata. Durante un grottesco pranzo in casa dei suoceri, apprende che la sua ragazza Mary è incinta, e viene obbligato a sposarla. Nascerà una creatura orrenda e frignante che la madre, disgustata, abbandona alle cure di Henry.

Approfondimenti

Kubrick e Lynch. 'Shining' e 'Eraserhead - La mente che cancella'	D
Poet/short story writer/novelist Charles Bukowski's favorite film. The great outsider was not a [...]	D
David Lynch had a lot of trouble getting financial assistance from the American Film Institute [...]	D
Though "Lady in the Radiator" Laurel Near was an accomplished singer who had performed folk mus [...]	D
Production funds were donated by David Lynch's childhood friend Jack Fisk and his wife Sissy Sp [...]	D
When production on the film took longer than expected, David Lynch had to sleep in the same roo [...]	D
Jack Nance nicknamed the baby "Spike." The rest of the crew also ended up using this name for i [...]	D
The mutant baby was apparently created from the embalmed fetus of a calf, although David Lynch [...]	D
Film debut of Hal Landon Jr.	D
Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 25 Most Dangerous Movies."	D
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die," edited by Steven Schneider.	D
Ranked #14 in Entertainment Weekly's "Top 50 Cult Films of All-Time."	D
The film premiered at the Filmex film festival in Los Angeles, on March 19, 1977. On its openin [...]	D
David Lynch has offered cryptic comments on the baby prop, at times stating that "it was born n [...]	D
The UK goth band Bauhaus also performed "In Heaven" during their final tour in 1982.	D
The floor in the lobby of Henry's apartment building is a smaller version of the one later used [...]	D
The script was only 22 pages long.	D
Having optioned the screenplay for The Elephant Man (1980) and gotten Mel Brooks interested in [...]	D
The Pixies frequently performed the "In Heaven" song at their gigs.	D
The script was influenced by David Lynch's reading as a film student. Franz Kafka's 1915 novell [...]	D
The large concrete structure that Henry walks into at the start of the film is the lower portio [...]	D
In Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch (1990), Jack Nance recalls of the film [...]	D
Though only released at first as a "midnight movie," a number of Hollywood A-list directors saw [...]	D
During production, David Lynch began experimenting with a technique of recording dialogue that [...]	D
The film was created in a piecemeal fashion over 5 years, with many sets rebuilt after being to [...]	D
During one of the many lulls in filming, David Lynch was able to produce the short film The Amp [...]	D
When "Eraserhead" played the Filmex Festival in LA, David Lynch was painting houses in the Holl [...]	D
The film started life as a script called Gardenback, based on David Lynch's painting of a hunch [...]	D
David Lynch began his interest in Transcendental Meditation during the film's production, adopt [...]	D
Swiss surrealist H.R. Giger cited this as "one of the greatest films [he had] ever seen," and s [...]	D
David Lynch refuses to say anything about Eraserhead (1977), because he wants to let viewers de [...]	D
The film's star, Jack Nance, never knew, nor cared exactly what Eraserhead meant. In an intervi [...]	D
It is often erroneously stated that David Lynch's wife at the time, Peggy Lynch, was pregnant w [...]	D
Catherine E. Coulson did then-husband Jack Nance's hair throughout the five-year production of [...]	D
During Henry's visit to Mary's parents house, it is mentioned that he is a printer at "LaPelle' [...]	D
The street that Mary and her parents live on is never mentioned, but the house number is 2416. [...]	D
The enlarged baby's head near the end of the film was made by David Lynch and Jack Nance. It wa [...]	D
After a poorly received test screening, in which David Lynch believes he had mixed the soundtra [...]	D
The film was Lynch's first feature.	D
The film's tone was also shaped by David Lynch's time living in a troubled neighborhood in Phil [...]	D
This film is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #725.	D
Lampooned by Canadian comedy team "The Kids in the Hall", in a sketch called "Sausages". Bruce [...]	D
The desolate, muddy and potholed urban landscape that Henry walks through at the beginning of t [...]	D
There is no dialogue for the first 10 1/2 minutes of this movie and for last 20-30 minutes.	D
Stanley Kubrick made the cast of Shining (1980) watch this film (among others) to get in the mo [...]	D
David Lynch's feature debut.	D
The script is thought to have been inspired by David Lynch's fear of fatherhood. His daughter J [...]	D
Henry has a similar hairdo to David Lynch.	D
The soundtrack album was dedicated "...to The Man In the Planet's Sister." The Man In the Plane [...]	D
David Lynch performed many duties on the film himself, e.g. directing, writing, producing, prod [...]	D
The film's production crew was very small. It comprised of David Lynch, sound designer Alan Spl [...]	D

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When Henry enters Mary's house, there is a large, distinctive "dent" on the top of his hair that di [...]	D
The boy who brings Henry's head to the pencil-making shop suddenly has glasses on when he faces awa [...]	D
The man's hands on the door at the beginning.	D
Camera shadow visible, tracking into the light towards the end of the film.	D
Henry takes off the wrong shoe/sock to dry off.	D
Towards the end of the film, there is a picture of what appears to be the Hiroshima explosion hangi [...]	D

Frase

Mr. X: Well Henry, what do you know? Henry Spen [...]	D
Mr. X: Mary usually does the carving but tonight [...]	D
Mary X: [to the crying baby] Shut up! [Baby con [...]	D
Mrs. X: It's Henry, isn't it? Henry Spencer: Ye [...]	D
[the Baby is going into violent convulsions and [...]	D
[first lines] Beautiful Girl Across the Hall: A [...]	D
Mrs. X: Henry, may I speak to you a minute? Over [...]	D
The Boss: COUNTER, PAUL!	D
The Boss: OK, PAUL!	D
Henry Spencer: I work at LaPelle's Factory. I'm [...]	D
Lady in the Radiator: [singing] In Heaven, every [...]	D
Beautiful Girl Across the Hall: Where's your wif [...]	D
Beautiful Girl Across the Hall: I locked myself [...]	D
Mr. X: This dinner's getting mighty cold.	D
[last lines] Pencil Machine Operator: It's okay [...]	D
Mr. X: The girls have heard this before but... 1 [...]	D
Mary X: You wouldn't mind marrying me, would you [...]	D
Mr. X: I thought I heard a stranger. We've got c [...]	D

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