Fri Jan 22 · 7:00pm
The Elephant Man (1980)
The Elephant Man (1980), David Lynch’s second feature, tells the true Victorian story of the surgeon Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins) and John Merrick (John Hurt), a freak-show performer with severe physical deformities whom Treves first takes to be intellectually disabled before the two become friends. Shot in black and white, with Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud and Wendy Hiller, it earned eight Academy Award nominations. Part of the Capitol Classics series.