The midnight garden of David Lynch’s imagination is a rich and loamy place where the plants grow strong but twisted, where the vegetables look beautiful but taste sour. That landscape has created films as unforgettable as they are indescribable, and their haunting beauty has assured their place in the pantheon of cult classics. This semester, in eager anticipation of his new film Inland Empire, we look back at the cinematic highlights of this unique filmmaker’s career. We begin with three of his early classics: Eraserhead, which put him on the map; Blue Velvet, his breakthrough work that spawned his Twin Peaks television series; and Wild at Heart, which brought him back from TV with a newfound narrative freedom. Join us in April for Lynch’s more recent, less narrative works, finishing, of course, with screenings of Inland Empire!