The Tower Theater honors David Lynch by featuring two of his masterpieces on the big screen this January  

The Tower Theater. Photograph by Justin Wolff

This week, Sacramento’s Tower Theater pays tribute to the edgy and inventive film auteur David Lynch by showing his classic “Blue Velvet” on Friday, Jan. 24 and his darkly sultry head-trip “Mulholland Drive” on Thursday, Jan. 30.

Lynch, the Picasso of life-illusions and unsettling enigmas, passed away on January 15t at the age of 78. His death was met with international grief from fans his renegade style, as well as tributes from legendary directors that included Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard. Lynch first came to prominence in the early 1990s with his short-lived television series “Twin Peaks,” which was a fog-laden, preternatural take on the detective genre. By 1997, offerings like the eerie fever-dream “Lost Highway” had established Lynch as a risk-taking artist who didn’t compromise on his instincts.   

The Tower’s synopsis for “Blue Velvet,” showing tomorrow night, goes like this: “The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.” Tickets can be purchased here.

The Tower also has this summary for “Mulholland Drive,” which it will show next Thursday: “Beautiful, bizarre and strangely addictive, the film begins as a botched hit which results in the meeting of brunette amnesiac Rita and blonde would-be Hollywood actress Betty. Taking the viewer on a memorable neo-noir trip through Hollywood’s dark underbelly, Lynch dispenses with a conventional narrative in favor of a hallucinogenic assault on the senses that will stay with you long after the credits roll.” Tickets can be purchased here.

Meanwhile at The Crest Theater

Sacramento’s other historic movie palace, The Crest, is keeping people entertained this winter by showing modern classics, starting with “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” on Sunday, Feb. 2 at 1:30 p.m. and then the extended director’s cut of “Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” later that same day at 5 p.m. If you’re going to the latter, plan on getting concessions – Peter Jackson’s full, epic vision for “The Two Towers” is a four-hour-plus affair.  

The Crest will also be showing Tim Burton’s “Batman Returns” on Thursday, Feb. 6 at 7 p.m. and the 1982 cult horror classic “The Thing,” starring Kurt Russel, on Wednesday, Feb. 12 at 7 p.m.  

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