David Lynch - Classic or Dud

Back to Lynch...I watched Twin Peaks s1 the other week. I mean it was good and certainly kooky but far from amazing....worlds worse than say Soprano/Wire/Mad Men class of 00s.

pfft.

david lynch's film in general can be VERY funny -- and yes, this includes blue velvet (and yes, even some of the more disturbing moments). if anything, this is one of the reasons why i've come to love lynch's films so much.

(whether it's reason for people to laugh HYSTERICALLY at anything, though, that's another matter.)

Tad! Sorry I didn't respond to your ILXmail; suffice to say I've gotten off my arse and have stuff in the pipeline now. Hope you're kicking on!

not a problem, acoleuthic :-) glad that you're doing what you're supposed to do ... i kid you sometimes, but you're good people!

now back to david lynch ...

which one should I see next if I've only seen BV and MD and regard both as titanic (esp latter)

definitely get eraserhead. which can be pretty funny too, if you look at it a particular way.

ok, I've heard I'd probably love that one too

Inland Empire is the one I really want to see though

^^I've got that, waiting for the perfect time to watch it though.

double-date imo

i hated that

though like most DL things i might like it more now

though watching BV on a big screen yesterday just made me think id still rather watch lynch direct a film thats made on er film rather than DV

Naomi Watts + Laura Elena Harring double-date

Definitely would've been amazing to watch Inland Empire at the bfi or somewhere with a rapt audience. In fact, I'm surprised they haven't done a Lynch retrospective season yet.

hahahaha you want me to corrupt my principles here dontcha

also what happens when they end up making out with each other

we make a DIY Mulholland Drive 2: North West London

Holloway Rd

actually i think IE might be better suited to watching at home on dvd
actually no, youtube is probably a better medium
watching it at the cinema i think is what made me hate it more

oh wait North West

Uxbridge Rd

Exactly, what is London's Mulholland Drive/Sunset Blvd? Haverstock Hill?

Either way, ILM is one of the most effective procrastination tools on planet Earth. :/

West Cross Way?

Holland Park Ave

^^^Ave can also be Latin for 'hai' and Average, DOUBLE MEANINGS, also Holland is in the initial title

let's do this, where are attractive lesbians, sinister cowboys and expert mimes

Only know NW + around my uni well, dude. There actually is a London in Literature module on my course but I liked the sound of Literary Linguistics more.

Holland Park def has a ring! Nandos is where the creepy man behind the car park lives.

Oh man that cowboy...what was his significance. do you think? Sent a chill up my spine when he appeared in that party sequence near the end.

yeah and where Naomi Watts really works (I always thought the barista in the opening 20 minutes and her either WERE the same actress, or should have been)

xp

Cowboy's significance? To deliver a fucking amazing speech, and to signify Classic Hollywood as a sort of ancient mafia, employing its own grandiose fixers to protect its fantastical domain?

and to signify Classic Hollywood as a sort of ancient mafia, employing its own grandiose fixers to protect its fantastical domain?

yeah this, film probably opens up and deepens some kind of resonance if you've lived or spent a lot of time in Hollywood. It is Wilder's Sunset Blvd's nightmare twin.

I wrote a lot about this interpretation of the film in the Mulholland Drive thread - it definitely is about the idea of 'the classic Hollywood movie' - showing the frail scaffolding of the concept and yet being one

am watching Youtubes of this guy's talks on Transcendental Meditation - is this shit as potent as he makes out?

SB is much worse though and delivers nowhere near the same mystical punch.

I'm interested though in films which present a similar vibe and setting to this, though. How about Robert Altman's Short Cuts?

xpost I'll seek out that thread. MD is definitely a film to savor and grow old with, but one of my own cinephile philosophies is that for every film you watch for a second or third time you could watch something new. Hah maybe that seems quite entry-level but I hate to be the guy who's seen MD 134 times.

I almost always find once is enough, for films. Maybe I'm weird.

Although to refute that, I love watching a real favourite film with a guest, for the dual motion of personally introducing them to something new, and enjoying the screening with them. I saw MD with my 17 year old brother recently and alas he hated it!

Anyway, gotta get to work. Your degree is good at the moment?

Although to refute that, I love watching a real favourite film with a guest, for the dual motion of personally introducing them to something new, and enjoying the screening with them.

yeah true, my best friend often rewatches a film with me present and I have been known to do the reverse. some of the greatest films I've seen...of course I'd see them again in different company. FEMALE COMPANY

My degree is OK, and I'm off to Dungeness for an interview tomorrow!

oooh with who? Or is it confidential? Hope to rack up some interviews this summer myself..

with a dude who runs a Bird Observatory there, and moonlights in a Top 40 indie-dance act

Sounds very good, post MA...I guess this is like the true beginning of adulthood.

lololol this IS my MA

post MA I don't have a fucking clue except that I'm starting a band

http://www.factmag.com/2010/11/29/david-lynch-releases-solo-electronic-single/

65 today. It helps to speak backwards Italian:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ4ai_W9BzI&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

I'll be showing the English, non-Simpsons version to my grade 6s today. After giving some background on the show, I always promise them that "this is going to completely freak you out." It never does, but it's always very dramatic when I announce that it will.

Happy Birthday David Lynch! :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atJuCtm6kgI

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/2790

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go98Oa10QR4

don't think there's been enough wtf in response to this

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/duran_duran_by_lynch.jpg

http://vimeo.com/21939919

These last couple of days I've been timing & color correcting deleted scenes from Blue Velvet. It's a beautiful trip down memory lane.

!!

http://www.badassdigest.com/2011/01/25/lost-blue-velvet-deleted-scenes-to-be-included-on-blu-ray

Man, that badassdigest link hints at an actual extended cut by the look of it. STOKED.