On Sunday 3rd May, SOMETHING OF THE NIGHT slips beyond the boundaries of classic noir and into the darkness beneath small-town America; where neat lawns, bright smiles and clean-cut manners barely conceal something deeply disturbed.

This time we’re screening Blue Velvet.

When Jeffrey Beaumont discovers a severed ear lying in a field, curiosity draws him into a hidden world of obsession, violence and desire. What begins as amateur detective work soon becomes something far more dangerous.

Kyle MacLachlan plays Jeffrey with wide-eyed innocence, drifting ever deeper into places he cannot understand. Isabella Rossellini is extraordinary as Dorothy Vallens, bruised, tragic and magnetic. And Dennis Hopper is unforgettable as Frank Booth, one of cinema’s most terrifying embodiments of chaos.

With David Lynch, noir becomes stranger and more dreamlike; a mystery story warped into something seductive, funny and profoundly unsettling.

It’s a film of contrasts: innocence and corruption, tenderness and cruelty, daylight and nightmare. And by the end, it asks whether darkness is something hidden beneath the surface, or woven into the surface itself.

■ Downstairs at The Ill Repute
■ 8pm Start (no late admittance)
■ Free Entry
■ Drinks and snacks available upstairs

Something of the Night runs every other Sunday, exploring noir in all its forms from hardboiled classics to modern journeys into shadow.