(David Lynch, US/France 1997, 135 min.)

Lynch’s visionary masterpiece presents a neo-gothic world complete with hot jazz, murderous husbands, porno, haunted houses, and Marilyn Manson, earning the filmmaker a welcome comeback after a five-year absence from the big screen. The Moebius strip plotting is also a structural precursor to Mulholland Dr. and Inland Empire. This exhilarating, powerful, and provocative film stars Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Robert Loggia, Robert Blake, and, in his last movie, Richard Pryor.