Eraserhead - La mente che cancella

Titolo originale: Eraserhead
Regia: David Lynch |
Anno: 1977
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Fantascienza Horror
Tag: baby | nightmare | mutant | claustrophobia | parents-in-law | pencil | surrealism | black and white | 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.

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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 nota [...] D
David Lynch had a lot of trouble getting financial assistance from the American Film Institute (AFI) [...] D
Though "Lady in the Radiator" Laurel Near was an accomplished singer who had performed folk music wi [...] D
Production funds were donated by David Lynch's childhood friend Jack Fisk and his wife Sissy Spacek. [...] D
When production on the film took longer than expected, David Lynch had to sleep in the same room use [...] D
Jack Nance nicknamed the baby "Spike." The rest of the crew also ended up using this name for it. D
The mutant baby was apparently created from the embalmed fetus of a calf, although David Lynch has n [...] 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 opening nig [...] D
David Lynch has offered cryptic comments on the baby prop, at times stating that "it was born nearby [...] 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 in t [...] D
The script was only 22 pages long. D
Having optioned the screenplay for The Elephant Man (1980) and gotten Mel Brooks interested in havin [...] 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 novella The [...] D
The large concrete structure that Henry walks into at the start of the film is the lower portion of [...] D
In Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch (1990), Jack Nance recalls of the film's lo [...] D
Though only released at first as a "midnight movie," a number of Hollywood A-list directors saw the [...] D
During production, David Lynch began experimenting with a technique of recording dialogue that had b [...] D
The film was created in a piecemeal fashion over 5 years, with many sets rebuilt after being torn do [...] D
During one of the many lulls in filming, David Lynch was able to produce the short film The Amputee [...] D
When "Eraserhead" played the Filmex Festival in LA, David Lynch was painting houses in the Hollywood [...] D
The film started life as a script called Gardenback, based on David Lynch's painting of a hunched fi [...] D
David Lynch began his interest in Transcendental Meditation during the film's production, adopting a [...] D
Swiss surrealist H.R. Giger cited this as "one of the greatest films [he had] ever seen," and said t [...] D
David Lynch refuses to say anything about Eraserhead (1977), because he wants to let viewers decide [...] D
The film's star, Jack Nance, never knew, nor cared exactly what Eraserhead meant. In an interview wi [...] D
It is often erroneously stated that David Lynch's wife at the time, Peggy Lynch, was pregnant with J [...] D
Catherine E. Coulson did then-husband Jack Nance's hair throughout the five-year production of this [...] D
During Henry's visit to Mary's parents house, it is mentioned that he is a printer at "LaPelle's fac [...] D
The street that Mary and her parents live on is never mentioned, but the house number is 2416. Lynch [...] D
The enlarged baby's head near the end of the film was made by David Lynch and Jack Nance. It was mad [...] D
After a poorly received test screening, in which David Lynch believes he had mixed the soundtrack at [...] 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 Philadelp [...] 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 McCul [...] D
The desolate, muddy and potholed urban landscape that Henry walks through at the beginning of the fi [...] 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 mood fo [...] D
David Lynch's feature debut. D
The script is thought to have been inspired by David Lynch's fear of fatherhood. His daughter Jennif [...] 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 Planet was [...] D
David Lynch performed many duties on the film himself, e.g. directing, writing, producing, productio [...] D
The film's production crew was very small. It comprised of David Lynch, sound designer Alan Splet, c [...] D

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