Revival of 1980’s ‘The Elephant Man’ Offers an Opportunity To Focus on Its Director, David Lynch, Who Died This Year
This was Lynch’s first shot at the big time. His previous feature, the hallucinatory ‘Eraserhead,’ was a perennial on the midnight movie circuit, but its notoriety as a cult movie was, by its very nature, limited.
The IFC Center is mounting a revival of David Lynch’s “The Elephant Man” (1980) on the occasion of its recent 4K restoration — but also, one feels, as a nod to its director, who died earlier this year. As a colleague, Adrian Nguyen, noted at the time, Lynch “left his mark — weird and experimental — on multiple generations of popular culture.” The 45th anniversary of the picture’s release seems a good moment to get reacquainted with the curious story of a curious film.
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