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David Lynch’s last completed feature (and only full-length film since Mulholland Drive) was the only film that the Cinematheque showed for an entire week. Laura Dern, Justin Theroux, Jeremy Irons, and Harry Dean Stanton star in this three-hour head trip that The Boston Globe called “maybe most aggressively surreal feature film ever released to movie theaters in this country.” Shot on digital video, the film follows an actress (Dern, spectacular) who lands a dream movie part that soon devolves into all manner of nightmarish role-playing. This hallucinatory epic, with head-scratching subplots and dumbfounding detours, is just what you’d expect from the director of Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, and Lost Highway: an eye-popping, emotional roller coaster ride that is by turns funny, spooky, horrifying, perverse, and mystifying. “Lynch's most experimental endeavor in the 30 years since Eraserhead…After two viewings, I cannot wait to see it again.” –Scott Foundas.