Eraserhead + Toaster Music - Lola's Outdoor Retro Cinema, Sunnyside Cemetery Long Beach

"In Heaven, everything is fine..." Experience David Lynch's surreal, groundbreaking, and game-changing independent horror masterpiece Eraserhead as it's never been seen before - outdoors and under the stars at a historic cemetery! On Saturday, July 9, Lola's Outdoor Retro Cinema returns to Long Beach's Sunnyside Cemetery with the 1977 classic that blew minds, become a midnight-movie sensation, and launched the filmmaking career of one of cinema's most distinctive and celebrated auteurs. To open the event, we've invited improvisational electronic music duo Toaster Music for a special outdoor performance that will no doubt perfectly complement the strange and mysterious sights and sounds of Lynch's debut masterpiece. Essentially a midlife-crisis tale about a man wrestling with the pressures of marriage, early fatherhood, and existential angst, Eraserhead stars Lynch-regular Jack Nance as Henry, a quiet man who leads a solitary life in a bleak apartment surrounded by industrial gloom. When he is invited by former girlfriend Mary X (Charlotte Stewart) to a very strange dinner with her family, he discovers that she is pregnant with his child, and promptly marries her and moves her into his apartment. Things take a decidedly strange turn when the couple's baby is born - and doesn't appear to be altogether human. And then there's that disfigured lady in the radiator... Eraserhead was selected in 2004 for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress, who selects film which they deem to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." After Eraserhead, David Lynch directed The Elephant Man, which earned him his first of three Academy Award nominations for Best Director; since then, Lynch's incredible volume of cinema - including such masterpieces as Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart (film), Mulholland Drive, and the cult television series Twin Peaks - have earned him over 40 international awards as Best Director. GATES: 6:30pm TOASTER MUSIC: 7:30pm ERASERHEAD: 8:30pm Guests are encouraged to bring low-back chairs and/or blankets for their comfort, as well as food/picnic baskets. Food trucks will be on site, so feel free to come hungry! Limited parking is available on site on a first-come, first-served basis – please carpool. In the likely event of a full lot, there is additional ample street parking in front of, and west of, Sunnyside Cemetery. IF YOU PLAN ON LEAVING THE EVENT EARLY, DO NOT PARK ON SITE - parking at Sunnyside is STACKED, meaning once you're in, you're in through the evening (though why would you want to leave early?). If you plan to leave early, please park on the side streets. Early-Bird $10 Tickets available through Sunday, June 26 - click https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eraserhead-toaster-music-sunnyside-cemetery-long-beach-tickets-26165930001 to purchase! Tickets will be $12 online June 27 through July 9 (or until sold out). In the event there are tickets left the night of the event, tickets will be on sale at gate, cash-only, at $15. This event is FREE for The Frida Cinema card-carrying, film-loving Members - just show us your Card at gate! Not a Member yet? Join us at http://thefridacinema.bigcartel.com/! Event will proceed as scheduled in the event of cold weather - bring blankets and snuggle up! - but will be cancelled, and all tickets refunded, in the event of rain. THANKS TO OUR AMAZING AND GENEROUS SPONSORS! TITLE SPONSOR Lola's Mexican Cuisine / Lola's Outdoor Retro Cinema Lola's Outdoor Retro Cinema events are presented by the Lola's Mexican Cuisine family of restaurants: Lola's Mexican Cuisine - 4th Street, Lola's Mexican Cuisine - Bixby Kolls, and The Social List MUSIC SPONSOR MILLWORKS Long Beach Live music and DJ performances at Lola's Outdoor Retro Cinema events are sponsored by the as-yet-unnamed and much-anticipated entertainment venue coming to Downtown Long Beach from our friends at MILLWORKS Long Beach. Keep posted at http://millworkslb.com/! ADDITIONAL SPONSORS Shoreline Village Red Eye Media Long Beach Post OC Weekly Long Beach Stuff Yelp OC