seriously guys, click on the correct video link and watch this. it is mindboggling.
― jessie monster, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link
lolz @ INXS ringtone - way to go douchebag
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 19:55 (sixteen years ago) link
yes, the man is down for TM. This is known.
― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 19:56 (sixteen years ago) link
his HAIR. IT'S FULL OF STARS.
― jessie monster, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 19:56 (sixteen years ago) link
amazing how a genius director can talk in such a shallow,banal ways about new age cliches that will of course bring peace to the world...
― Zeno, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 20:28 (sixteen years ago) link
I am more just entranced by the way he stares into the crowd when INXS ringtone goes off. and his hair.
― jessie monster, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 20:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Guess who's back with a new film
― Alba, Sunday, 28 October 2007 12:42 (sixteen years ago) link
like 20 years after her last one! i think boxing helena's faults are generally attributable to youth and inexperience (and casting Julian Sands)
― akm, Sunday, 28 October 2007 14:28 (sixteen years ago) link
David Lynch and Donovan, together at last
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 15:51 (sixteen years ago) link
They already teamed up for a speaking tour earlier this year. I'm guessing this will be the first university to include the word "Invincible" in its name though (not including Invincible Iron Man Junior College).
― Chris L, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link
i saw the donovan concert on pbs hosted by david lynch. it was SO BAD. mike love came out at the end and sang a song as crappy as a man could. i posted about it somewhere.
― chaki, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 17:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Mike Love is such a dick he named one of his kids Christian (his kids seem nice though)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 18:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I wonder what Lynch's eulogy will be like
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 23:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I have yet to see Inland Empire all the way through but man do I dig it.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 00:07 (sixteen years ago) link
the last 15 minutes or so are really something else. I've watched it twice and its fantastic but a real undertaking.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 00:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Ok, this has to be a joke.
― mehlt, Saturday, 5 July 2008 09:44 (sixteen years ago) link
it is not - that's been out for a couple years at least
― Shakey Mo Collier, Saturday, 5 July 2008 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, they were selling it at the IFC center when IE was playing. didn't actually buy any tho.
― impudent harlot, Saturday, 5 July 2008 17:16 (sixteen years ago) link
anyone care to recommend some movies by other directors I might like given I really like David Lynch?
― Local Garda, Monday, 9 February 2009 13:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Carnival Of Souls
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 9 February 2009 13:14 (fifteen years ago) link
The Tenant by Roman Polanski. It predates Lynch but has a very similar feel to his more surreal stuff, could even be that he was influenced by it.
― Tuomas, Monday, 9 February 2009 13:29 (fifteen years ago) link
i couldn't think of anything but Polanski is a good answer, actually. Repulsion, The Tennant and even Rosemary's Baby all have aspects in common with Lynch.
― jed_, Monday, 9 February 2009 13:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe some of the Val Lewton films - The Seventh Victim for instance
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 9 February 2009 13:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Is Hitchcock too obvious?
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Monday, 9 February 2009 14:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Three Women
― Chris L, Monday, 9 February 2009 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
this.
also, if you can find it, "black moon" by louis malle. surreal psychosexual alice in wonderland stuff; includes at least one scene that i'm convinced was the basis for something in wild at heart.
― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Monday, 9 February 2009 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Wizard of Oz duh
― Courtney Love's Jew Loan Officer (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 9 February 2009 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link
try these:
safeauditionthe spirit of the beehivecome and seethe holy mountainpersonaa tale of two sisterschoses secrètes
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 9 February 2009 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Woman in the Dunes
― Chris L, Monday, 9 February 2009 16:49 (fifteen years ago) link
You might also enjoy movies by Julio Medem, especially The Red Squirrel and Tierra, as they're both surreal films about passions lurking beneath calm surfaces.
― Tuomas, Monday, 9 February 2009 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link
pauline kael nailed it in her blue velvet review: "Lynch might turn out to be the first populist surrealist - a Frank Capra of dream logic."
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 9 February 2009 16:59 (fifteen years ago) link
that was a random thought about lynch, apropos of nothing
werner herzog is probably also a good idea ... esp. even dwarfs started small.
― Ein kluges Äpfelchen (Eisbaer), Monday, 9 February 2009 16:59 (fifteen years ago) link
OTM
I've never found the proper entry point for him, so I can't make recommendations, but: luis buñuel
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 9 February 2009 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Holy Mountain? I don't see that connection (unless yr thinking of the Dune angle)
― Courtney Love's Jew Loan Officer (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 9 February 2009 17:11 (fifteen years ago) link
their tones are totally diff but the wacky transgressive surrealism would appeal to a lynch fan methinks
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 9 February 2009 17:13 (fifteen years ago) link
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari & other German Expressionist films.
― Ricky Apples (Pillbox), Monday, 9 February 2009 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Last Year at Marienbad
Might be difficult to find, but worth it.
― circa1916, Monday, 9 February 2009 20:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Criterion is releasing it this year.
― Chris L, Monday, 9 February 2009 20:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Optimum released it in 2006 I believe.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 9 February 2009 21:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks for all these, just watching the Tenant now. I particularly like the way Lynch uses music if that makes a difference to recommendations.
― Local Garda, Monday, 9 February 2009 21:23 (fifteen years ago) link
ronan: here's a clip from herzog's even dwarfs started small, if you haven't seen it already (i also think herzog makes interesting use of music in his films). so i guess that if you like this, then you should rent this film:
― Ein kluges Äpfelchen (Eisbaer), Monday, 9 February 2009 21:38 (fifteen years ago) link
a PETA film of the month favorite
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 9 February 2009 21:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I enjoyed The Tenant, though it was sort of less postmodern than maybe what I was looking for. I mean actually I'm sure lots of these films I will enjoy, but I get a huge kick out of Lynch using pop music or modern music in really weird contexts, or the kind of humorous weirdness of eg the woman dancing on the car in Blue Velvet.
I will keep checking out the above recommendations though.
― Local Garda, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Cronenberg always strikes me as Lynch's nearest point of comparison.
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 14:32 (fifteen years ago) link
SCORPIO RISING by Kenneth Anger seems like the most obvious precursor to Lynch in terms of use of pop music, colour, occult iconography
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 14:34 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^Yes absolutelyKustom Kar Kommandos, Scorpio Rising, Rabbit Moon
― Courtney Love's Jew Loan Officer (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 16:34 (fifteen years ago) link
, but I get a huge kick out of Lynch using pop music or modern music in really weird contexts
Have you seen much Dennis Potter?
― Alba, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 16:37 (fifteen years ago) link
LGarda: Bunuel
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 16:39 (fifteen years ago) link
re: music yeah Potter is another good reference point, my personal favorite is "Lipstick on Your Collar" (feat. super-young Ewan MacGregor!) but the most Lynch-like is definitely the og Pennies from Heaven.
― Courtney Love's Jew Loan Officer (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 16:40 (fifteen years ago) link