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If any filmmaker upon their sad passing deserved an interruption into our regular programming to honour their creative legacy, it surely would be David Lynch (1946-2025). For many workers in the film and TV business, whether in exhibition or production, Lynch - the unique creative mind behind TWIN PEAKS, MULHOLLAND DRIVE and BLUE VELVET - was and is the reason they do what they do. Long ago, before our 2019 re-opening, Riverside Studios hosted a 'David Lynch Day' where four of his films screened back to back. To mark his passing, but also pay joyous tribute to his dreams and nightmares, Riverside brings you a new David Lynch Day on 29 March 2025: featuring BLUE VELVET, WILD AT HEART, LOST HIGHWAY and MULHOLLAND DRIVE.
Ticket-holders can enjoy a 33% discount for 2 or more films bought in the same order.
Please note, there will be NO adverts and trailers before the films in this marathon and the first film will start promptly at 13:00. There will be time gaps of various lengths in between the films and the cinema bar and and upstairs Riverfront restaurant will be open throughout for refreshment. See below for exact timings.
BLUE VELVET – Sa 29 Mar 2025 (13:00–15:00) – Screen 1
WILD AT HEART – Sa 29 Mar 2025 (15:10–17:14) – Screen 1
LOST HIGHWAY – Sa 29 Mar 2025 (17:25–19:34) – Screen 1
MULHOLLAND DRIVE – Sa 29 Mar 2025 (20:25–22:52) – Screen 1
BLUE VELVET
After the failure of the epic sci-fi Dune that nearly ended Lynch’s career, he resolved to make a personal film, and ultimately settled on what would become his undisputed masterpiece of the 1980s, Blue Velvet. After finding a severed human ear in a field, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) discovers, beneath his idyllic suburban hometown, a sinister underworld inhabited by damaged mystery lady Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini) and her sadistic captor, Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper). The intense colour palette, lush Old Hollywood orchestral score, and anachronistic flourishes inch Blue Velvet just past the realm of realism into a space without signposts that gets more disorienting the longer you stay in it. Upon its release, Blue Velvet became an instant cult film and, as more people saw it, a lightning rod for polarized reactions.
