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When? Every Wednesday in July and August at 9:30 p.m.
How much does a ticket cost? A single admission is CZK 270
What about DOX Club members? 20% discount, categories Supporter and Patron have free entry
How to buy a ticket? Tickets can be purchased online, during opening hours at the DOX box office (Poupětova 1) and on the day of the screening from 8 pm to 9.30 pm at the DOX+ box office (Poupětova 3).
What if it rains? In case of bad weather, the screening will be cancelled. We will refund your money if the screening has not started yet.
In what language? Films are shown in the original language with Czech subtitles.
The DOX+ terrace and bar will be open before the screening from 8pm.
Full summer cinema programme here.
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Poupětova 3 – DOX+ entrance
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DOX and the Ponrepo Cinema invite you to a series of summer movie nights under the stars and in the universe of David Lynch with Blue Velvet.
The screening will be introduced by film critic Jan Nevyjel.
“'Blue Velvet’ is a Bobby Vinton song from the ’50s that I discovered in the ’60s. It’s a song that inspired me because it always put me in a specific state of mind. As for velvet, it’s a remarkable material – sensual, rich, heavy, almost organic.” – David Lynch
Blue Velvet is Lynch’s famed breakthrough film, in which his directorial signature was already fully formed but was also squeezed into an accessible genre framework with a thrilling plot. The dark film, which smacks of sex, drugs, and ’60s suburbia, is at times a coming-of-age flick, at times a noir whodunit, and for the most part an undeniably and unexpectedly violent thriller. Yet Blue Velvet begins and ends with hyperrealistic images of the American dream. Between these two technicolour sequences, the inquisitive Jeffrey, played by Lynch’s frequent collaborator Kyle MacLachlan, delves into a world of toxic addiction and crime that takes on the contours of a nightmare. Masterfully crafted in terms of both visuals and music, many say Blue Velvet is the most important American film of the 1980s, but it was made as a low-budget Band-Aid after Lynch’s colossally unsuccessful collaboration with the De Laurentiis clan on Dune. The casting –which includes Isabella Rossellini as the masochistic femme fatale and the bestial Dennis Hopper as the most terrifying villain since Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter – also contributed to the film’s success.
director: David Lynch
starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper
USA, 1986 / 121 min.
Film is shown in the original English language with Czech subtitles.
Each ticket comes with a small bottle of ice-cold Pilsner Urquell (valid for visitors over 18 years of age).
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DOX Summer Cinema – David Lynch Season
DOX and the Ponrepo Cinema invite you to a series of summer movie nights under the stars and in the unfathomable, mysterious, and deeply captivating universe of David Lynch. High-quality headphone sound, views of the Gulliver Airship, and refreshing summer drinks and nine screenings.
Sunset Boulevard
A fraught tale of artistic ego is set in the now forgotten but mythical world of Hollywood studios, which never ceased to fascinate David Lynch. The movie is screened in the DOX Summer Cinema on the terrace of DOX+.
Lost Highway – SOLD OUT
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
A feature-length theatrical film dedicated to the seemingly familiar story of the fallen angel from Twin Peaks. In this revolutionary prequel for its time, Lynch follows the ill-fated diva on a cocaine-fuelled ride through hell. The movie is screened in the DOX Summer Cinema on the terrace of DOX+.
Lolita
A cinematic treatment of Vladimir Nabokov's famous novel, in which the obsessive roots of David Lynch's paternal yet infantile incestuous parental figures are confronted with absurdly comic and terrifyingly demonic messengers of absolute evil. The movie is screened in the DOX Summer Cinema on the terrace of DOX+.
Blue Velvet
The dark film, which smacks of sex, drugs, and ’60s suburbia, is at times a coming-of-age flick, at times a noir whodunit, and for the most part an undeniably and unexpectedly violent thriller. The movie is screened in the DOX Summer Cinema on the terrace of DOX+.
Persona
From Ibsen, Pirandello and Vertov to Bergman's contemporaries and everything we affectionately refer to as ‘Lynchian’, films full of doubles, repressed sexual tension and the schizophrenic nature of the acting profession. The movie is screened in the DOX Summer Cinema on the terrace of DOX+.
