One of the weirdest movies ever made

It was one of those films that you almost didn’t dare watch but eventually did.

It was a surreal horror movie which 27 years after its release in 1977 was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the US National Film Registry. The selection is for films considered to have been “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant”.

David Lynch’s reputation for the surreal and film noir, which was to result in films such as The Elephant Man and Blue Velvet and the TV series Twin Peaks, was founded on Eraserhead. The name itself sounded disturbing, the poster image of the lead actor Jack Nance was likewise scary.

It has to be one of the weirdest movies ever made and it concludes a short series at the Miró Foundation that started with Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali’s Un Chien Andalou. The screening is in the gardens, surrounded by Miró sculptures. It’s the original with subtitles.