― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 30 October 2003 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 October 2003 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)
crosspost
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 30 October 2003 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 30 October 2003 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)
Yeah, quite right. I read the book a year before the movie came out so my timing was perfect there...
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 October 2003 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 30 October 2003 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 October 2003 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)
although, N. has had my copy of the cinema one for nearly a year, now.
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 30 October 2003 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 30 October 2003 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 30 October 2003 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)
cremaster's opulent mythboredom reminded me a lot of dune
― prima fassy (bob), Thursday, 30 October 2003 08:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― prima fassy (bob), Thursday, 30 October 2003 08:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― prima fassy (bob), Thursday, 30 October 2003 08:25 (twenty-one years ago)
absolutely. it's funny how the production design seems to be the central concern of the film for much of its length, but unlike other well-appointed films, the design is actually so rich it actually sustains interest.
this movie redeems dino dilaurentis's reputation from all the europudding he's made. (well, this movie and "blue velvet.")
the last half hour is a mess, yes, but it's compelling for being so incomprehensible. the ending, if you haven't read the book, is just quizzical--all the more so for being so terrifically bombastic and theatrical.
― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 30 October 2003 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 30 October 2003 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)
FWWM, like Dune, does have a lot of extra footage still sitting there. As a fan of fractured, difficult art I'm not too bothered about seeing it restored. Pretty much all the series cast shot scenes.
― Lynskey (Lynskey), Thursday, 30 October 2003 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)
Err, Lynch incidentally is brain-crushingly classic.
― Alex K (Alex K), Thursday, 30 October 2003 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 30 October 2003 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)
There's a much better book out there if you can find it at all -- The Making of Dune by Ed Naha. He was hired to essentially hang around on site during the entire length of filming and write a book about it all and did a fantastic job, I thought. While essentially uncritical about the final product itself, it actually doesn't talk about that so much as just the filming itself. Also laden with tons of photos.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 October 2003 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)
Here's ten, in order of "classicness":
1. Mulholland Drive2. Eraserhead3. Blue Velvet4. Wild at Heart5. Elephant Man6. Twin Peaks7. The Straight Story8. Dune9. Fire Walk with Me10. Lost Highway
― David A. (Davant), Thursday, 30 October 2003 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 31 October 2003 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)
1. Mulholland Drive2. Blue Velvet3. Eraserhead4. Elephant Man5. Lost Highway6. Fire Walk with Me7. Twin Peaks8. Dune9.The Straight Story
― jed (jed_e_3), Friday, 31 October 2003 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)
sorry, jaymc, my aside has troubled you, AND i used the wrong tense in one sentence! and it revived a discussion, how about that ?but huh ?, you haven't commented on Princess Anne and the BAFTAs, which was what i was getting at. Or anything else beyond the semantics of said paragraph. What do YOU THINK ?
― george gosset (gegoss), Friday, 31 October 2003 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)
I'm not sure I'll ever get round reading the book so could somebody please summarize what it adds to the movie?
― Baaderonixxx le Jeune (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 15:20 (twenty years ago)
― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 16:35 (twenty years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 16:38 (twenty years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 16:49 (twenty years ago)
― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 7 November 2004 13:09 (twenty years ago)
David Lynch: Well, you know, nature can teach us a lot of things, and there'ssomething about, in painting, you're working within a certain shapedcanvas and there's many things that you, you know, one doesintuitively, to move the eye, you know, there's repetition of shape,there's repetition of colour, but when you start looking at a duck,you see your eye is moving in a certain way, and you see textures andcolours and shapes and you start wondering about a duck, what it canteach us about, you know, any kind of abstract, you know, painting, orproportions or even sequences, scenes, and it always is interestingthat the eye is in the perfect place - if you move it to the body, itwould get lost, if you move to the leg or the beak, it's two, kind of,fast areas competing, even though the eye is the fastest, it's thelittle jewel.
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 14:07 (twenty years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 7 November 2004 14:08 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 14:09 (twenty years ago)
― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 7 November 2004 14:11 (twenty years ago)
DL: Well, there's slow and fast. An empty room is a certain speed,and a person standing there is another speed, and that proportion is,you know, can be beautiful, if the room is a 2 and the person is a 7.I think a person is around a 7; fire and electricity can go up to a 9,for instance, or really intricately designed, you know, decorativeroom is pretty disturbing, sometimes - it's too fast. But then if youput something slow in it, it could work beautifully. A busy room anda person, they fight each other. So...
MC: Is this to do with how fast our eye moves to scan it, to seewhat's happening?
DL: It's a relationship thing, I think. Fast and slow areas.
MC: OK. What is the eye of the duck scene in Straight Story?
DL: I haven't thought about it. I have to think about it. I can'tjust jump in and think, but I believe every film has the eye of theduck scene. But, it can fool you. You know, which one it is - itcould be the scene we were talking about, I don't know.
MC: What's the eye of the duck scene in `Blue Velvet'?
DL: I used to know.
MC: Is it the `In Dreams' song.
DL: It's the eye of the duck, that's the eye of the duck, yes, yes.
[clip `in dreams']
MC: And what's the eye of the duck scene in Elephant Man?
DL: (laughs) I used to know.
MC: Is it the scene where he goes to the theatre? Near the end?
DL: No, I think, strangely, the eye of the duck scene is the ending.
― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 7 November 2004 14:11 (twenty years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 7 November 2004 14:12 (twenty years ago)
― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 7 November 2004 14:12 (twenty years ago)
― Andrew (enneff), Sunday, 7 November 2004 14:13 (twenty years ago)
- Lynch the American
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 14:14 (twenty years ago)
― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 7 November 2004 14:14 (twenty years ago)
http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/people/stam/suomi/stam/pics/duck_rabbit.gif
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 14:17 (twenty years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 7 November 2004 14:18 (twenty years ago)
― amateur!!st, Sunday, 7 November 2004 14:20 (twenty years ago)
― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 7 November 2004 14:20 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 14:21 (twenty years ago)
*less than $100. (That was a weird typo.)
― birdistheword, Friday, 30 May 2025 05:17 (one month ago)
They're going to make a ridiculous amount of money off of this.
― Cow_Art, Friday, 30 May 2025 05:22 (one month ago)
"Goddammit, why did we throw away the cleaning supplies and all the stale items in the pantry? That would've been pure profit!"
― birdistheword, Friday, 30 May 2025 05:25 (one month ago)
I can’t believe the sale of a beloved figure’s personal effects so soon after their death has only elicited ‘how much?’ and not ‘WTF?’
― einstürzende louboutin (suzy), Friday, 30 May 2025 05:44 (one month ago)
ha yeah I was def thinking how they must’ve started cataloging and photographing this stuff uncomfortably soon after he kicked it
― Cognosc in Tyrol (emsworth), Friday, 30 May 2025 05:46 (one month ago)
Well, a close friend of mine had to deal with his parents suddenly dying not too long ago, and I was with him every step of the way, something he encouraged because not only did it help him, he thought it was information I could really use someday since it would've been overwhelming to learn on the fly (as it turned to be for him). I realize Lynch isn't like most people financially speaking, but he wasn't like, say, Prince or Elvis Presley where he had an enormous operation and revenue stream that was up and running even after death. They probably had to start cleaning out his belongings, unload any real estate, etc. because if you don't deal with those thing, it creates a lot of problems and a lot of cost that are going to fall on the survivors' shoulders.
A lot of the stuff they're selling is likely enticing to private collectors, but it's not something a museum or another archive will want to acquire unless they're truly unique or valuable. And if you're trying to settle bills and other things left behind, it's not unusual to sell what you can to put the money towards those costs.
― birdistheword, Friday, 30 May 2025 06:00 (one month ago)
I will add, it is sad, really sad, to see his instruments, gear and art tools get sold. Just watch something like Olivier Assayas's Summer Hours or Kenneth Lonergan's play The Waverly Gallery. It's a life that's over, and all these things that were part of his creative existence, they're no longer producing the things he put into the world. They're all being dispersed, and it's sad to think of some of them just sitting on a collector's shelf or behind glass rather than being used. That's a common, sad reality when people die - even if they're someone pretty anonymous, if something you remember them using like a chair or glasses turned out to be precious and was forever stored in a case rather than be used or touched, it feels sad, like a reflection of their own death.
― birdistheword, Friday, 30 May 2025 06:11 (one month ago)
(Full confession, had I somehow won what I bid on, I sure as hell would've used them.)
― birdistheword, Friday, 30 May 2025 06:12 (one month ago)
Hilarious pic. As someone noted, Atlas Shrugged is the most creased spine.
From the personal library of David Lynch pic.twitter.com/nFSKukPoec— Lee (@leeartr) May 29, 2025
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 30 May 2025 09:27 (one month ago)
Zibaldone is just sending me...
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 30 May 2025 09:28 (one month ago)
A fitting post from an old friend after Lynch passed:
David Lynch-related story from last year. It's not a serious anecdote and it's a little embarrassing but... here goes. On July 8 I was in Los Angeles and drove to the Bill Pullman residence from LOST HIGHWAY (the first photo). The house, which belonged to Lynch, is not immediately recognizable -- in the movie Lynch frames it in a way to hide certain architectural details, like the triangles at the top. And there's some disrepair. The house right next door to this one also belonged to Lynch and at the time was used as his office or primary residence from what I gather. Out of the corner of my eye I saw someone emerge from this other house and leave a rocking chair on the curb. I called my friend Kyle; we came back half an hour later and put the (obviously discarded) chair into the trunk of my friend Felipe's car. We thought this chair could have belonged to David Lynch-- why not take it as a souvenir? Later we showed the image (the second photo) to a friend of ours who worked for a time with Lynch, in his house, and she confirmed, "That's his chair!!" Are you sure? "100%." Is this reliable information? I still don't know. But I want to believe it. Today the chair claims a spot on Kyle's patio in Echo Park. And when I come over, I sit in it.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 May 2025 13:25 (one month ago)
We used to have an identical chair. My wife used it for rocking and nursing our baby.
― Cow_Art, Friday, 30 May 2025 14:00 (one month ago)
ugh mandles
― hungover beet poo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 May 2025 14:08 (one month ago)
(that's not my friend, fwiw)
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 May 2025 14:32 (one month ago)
I didn’t realize Lynch had such in an interest in LBJ. That could’ve been an interesting biopic if he wanted to make it.
― birdistheword, Friday, 30 May 2025 16:37 (one month ago)
I knew I sensed the work of Henry Rollins in Lynch's films
― fluffy tufts university (f. hazel), Friday, 30 May 2025 16:47 (one month ago)
he also had Behold A Pale Horse by Bill Cooper, the conspiracy theory book linked to anti government militias sometimes
― StanM, Friday, 30 May 2025 16:48 (one month ago)
Henry Rollins told some great stories on his podcast about working with Lynch on Lost Highway
― whimsical skeedaddler (Moodles), Friday, 30 May 2025 17:08 (one month ago)
Yeah, they traded a lot of music, much to Rollins and Lynch's delight. (They were mutual fans.)
Also gave some insight into how someone like Lynch can feasibly make movies - they may get name stars but they have very tight budgets.
― birdistheword, Friday, 30 May 2025 17:53 (one month ago)