We’re celebrating the vast cinematic legacy of the great David Lynch with his dreamlike tribute to the darkness lurking just beneath the surface in Hollywood.
When a bright-eyed young actress (Naomi Watts) travels to Los Angeles, she’s quickly ensnared in a dark conspiracy involving a mysterious woman named Rita (Laura Harring) who was nearly murdered, and now has amnesia because of a car crash. As the two women try to piece together what happened to Rita, they descend into a hypnotically nightmarish Lynchian rabbit hole involving a lethal blue box, an unlucky director named Adam Kesher and a neon-glowing nightclub called Silencio.
Lynch’s best reviewed film since “Blue Velvet” earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Director and landed atop many best-of-the-decade lists. It remains the ultimate expression of Lynch’s deep love-hate relationship with “the City of Dreams.”