Basil II Posted April 17, 2010 Share Posted April 17, 2010 "The Straight Story" is DL's most straight linear film he's made......worth seeing. -Robert Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted April 17, 2010 Share Posted April 17, 2010 Seconded on The Straight Story. u2, you gotta see that one. Sure it's G rated, but it's also 100% Lynch. One of the best movies of the year (and since we're talking about 1999, that's high praise).Thanks for resurrecting this thread Heartbreak. Just reread it all and am reminded how much I am a fan. Love all the movies (never seen Dune though and don't plan to). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
alison the wilca Posted April 17, 2010 Share Posted April 17, 2010 The Straight Story is soooo good. there is at least one really odd moment that is totally him. The Elephant Man was actually the first movie I ever saw- I was around 1. I don't remember that but it is no surprise to me that i am an oddball after all these years after that. I do love that movie, though. Eraserhead I can't stand- it just creeps me out way too much. I don't like when Eraserhead and the mom lady kiss. EEEEEEEEEEEK! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chinese Apple Posted April 17, 2010 Share Posted April 17, 2010 why isn't "batshit crazy genius" an option? Seriously! Don't geniuses have to be batshit crazy by definition? There should be a poll option for "Both." I first got into David Lynch while living on the East Coast, but it was when I moved to LA that I had a David Lynch epiphany. There is something Edward Hopper about his movies, and I've read or heard that he used to sit in Bob's Big Boy and watch people in the middle of the night for story ideas -- which totally makes sense, somehow. Then there is that brilliant article by David Foster Wallace about Lynch: http://www.thecityofabsurdity.com/papers/wallace.html And my favorite Julee Cruise song from the Twin Peaks soundtrack (for which he wrote the lyrics):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxGtQQhV4xM Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dagwave Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 Island Empire running on Sundance recently...I'm going to watch it at 10! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Heartbreak Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 Thanks for all the responses, everyone. I'm also picking up the Julee Cruise CD. Definitely obsessed! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Edie Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 One of the best pictures ever. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
u2roolz Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 Wild At Heart is doing the rounds on that Encore Mystery channel this month. It was on last night in the early a.m. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radiokills Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 Lost Highway Quote Link to post Share on other sites
embiggen Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 I loved Elephant Man when it came out (I was like ten years old). I also love Straight Story, but Blue Velvet is the masterpiece! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PopTodd Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 why isn't "batshit crazy genius" an option? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Heartbreak Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 I watched Eraserhead yesterday for the second time; the first time was in 1983 or so. What a strange, twisted piece of work...interesting how you find echoes of it in his later films. I had no idea Lynch was so heavily into transcendental meditation. This video on youtube is interesting if you have about an hour and a half to kill! "David Lynch: Consciousness, Creativity & The Brain" - www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8TFcLgu5Ow Quote Link to post Share on other sites
renton Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 Mulholland Dr was my favorite film of the 00s and nothing else was even close. You REALLY have to see it twice to get a sense of what Lynch is trying to do. Impossible to fully appreciate on first viewing. To borrow a baseball analogy, Lynch consistenly swings for the fences every single time out and I really appreciate that from a creative and artistic standpoint. Now he might swing and miss sometimes, but when he connects it's a thing of beauty...like Mulholland. I could watch it once a year and be entranced every single time. I had the good fortune to catch the INLAND EMPIRE debut in Chicago where Lynch both introduced the film beforehand and took questions after it. I don't think IE was the success Mulholland was but the film and QA was fascinating nonetheless. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Calexico Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 From YouTube - "This to "clean up new york" was directed by David Lynch and photographed by Frederick Elmes. Perhaps the scariest commercial ever made." Isn't that just fantastic!? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Calexico Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 The man is very clearly a bit mental and a bit touched by genius. Mullholland Dr. Wild at Heart, Blue Velvet, ...all wonderfully unsettling and strange. Straight Story is a gorgeous movie. Twin Peaks amazing television. Not a big fan of Elephant Man or Dune. INLAND EMPIRE, for me, is the top of the tree. Long as it is it never outstayed it's welcome for me and I felt it zipped by. It's abstract, off the wall, creepy, unsettling, confusing and utterly, ineffably brilliant. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oil Can Boyd Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Twin Peaks coming back? http://www.avclub.com/article/showtime-orders-twin-peaks-continuation-2016-210127 I've got pretty mixed feelings about this. I loved the first season and a half, got confused in the second half of season 2, and thought the movie was a bit of a mess. I suppose the positive spin is that Lynch and Frost will write the complete series and Lynch will direct all nine episodes. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 When I first got Netflix a while back I tried to re-watch the show for the first time since it was on. I could not get into it. I don't know if I would watch a new version or not. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
calvino Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 When I first got Netflix a while back I tried to re-watch the show for the first time since it was on. I could not get into it. I don't know if I would watch a new version or not. We got all the way through re-watching it (it was my wife's first time through) - but it definitely did peter out in the end --- I must have stopped watching it , back in the day - because I didn't remember the last half of the 2nd season at all. I never did see the movie - at least I don't think I ever did. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Atticus Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Yes, the end of season 2 is horrible. But season 1 is genius Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NoJ Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Madchen Amick! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Heartbreak Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Madchen Amick! Have you seen her lately, though? Just about unrecognizable.I was really excited about this return of Twin Peaks until I learned it would be on Showtime. I got rid of those premium channels a while ago. Guess I'll have to wait until it's available on Netflix or something. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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