David Lynch - Classic or Dud

"The story is to be set in a casino in the desert. The film involves gangsters, the discovery of a man as big as King Kong, and Marilyn Manson is said to portray a 300 year old pope. "

tetsuo is rad. no similarity to lynch other than that it's weird and super alienated - plus b&w like eraserhead & elepant mans

the reflecting skin is surreal & creepy coming of age thing, about the evil that lurks under the skin of the everday, so blue velvety, but not deeply so

greaser's palace is more like "zany" wokka-wokka american version of jodorowsky

night dreams is a new-wavey, very self-consciously surreal porn flick, but pretty cool for what it is. cafe flesh by the same crew might be better. they also made the erotic but non-pronographical dr. caligari. all are arty student film awkward, but also unique, campy and fun. probably closer to forbidden zone than to lynch (but nowhere near as relentlessly zany)

liquid sky is another new-wave artifakt, and by far the most low-budget flick on the list. none of these last three even remotely resemble lynch, but i love em all.

right on contenderizer. i thank you. :)

the adjuster is pretty much follows yr description of reflecting skin, except there are no scifi overtones that i can remember...also super-alienated...but with egoyan's trademark revealing style giving it the frame work...

(not saying you haven't seen it though...just for the record...)

i don't remember whether or not i've seen the adjuster. i think not. i think i've only seen family viewing and the sweet hereafter. maybe one more? anyway, i should go back and watch all the egoyan i missed. love the two i can remember. anyway, no sci-fi in the reflecting skin, either. tetsuo, liquid sky and night dreams are the sci-fi-ier ones.

the reflecting skin is surreal & creepy coming of age thing, about the evil that lurks under the skin of the everday, so blue velvety, but not deeply so

The Passion of Darkly Noon, Philip Ridley's second film also has Lynchian qualities, though the drama is more straightforward and there isn't as much humor. It's well worth the watch anyway, don't be scared by the fact that it co-stars Brendan Fraser.

oh, i thought some lady was like a vampire and there were weird guys riding around in limousines stealing children...who were also vampires...or something...for some reason i got the impression that the reflecting skin had a really dour donnie darko vibe to it...

i heard of the passion of darkly noon...that sounded really goo too...i think these movies are pretty unknown in the states...?

they aren't on dvd here

you can dl the reflecting skin from here:

http://www.cultrararevideos.com/forgottenflixr.html

thank you!

don't wanna ruin TRF for folks that haven't seen it, but it's not at all clear what "she" is. protagonist imagines that she and her boys are vampires...

what bunuel would be good to start with?

I don't see much connection between Buñuel and Lynch at all, besides some vague common theme of surrealism. Buñuel is much more playful and leftist/liberal than Lynch. Belle du Jour is the best one of his that I've seen, but it's also one of his less surreal movies.

Possible Worlds - I'd forgotten about this until this thread jogged ye olde memorybanks: A 2000 French-Canadian film featuring a pre-stardom Tilda Swinton I saw at a film festival years ago. If you dig the parallel realities/intersecting identity crises side of Lynch, this does a respectable job with similar themes.

Found via http://twitter.com/DAVID_LYNCH

that might be the coolest thing i've ever seen! good work Alba!

ASIAN MAN KILLED IN SEATTLE!!

^^^ no idea wtf i was on about with that last revive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiIroiCvZ0

<3

Hahaha, that was amazing.

he is weirder than his movies are.
i love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddp012WOO7A&feature=related

I think as a sort of rule, anytime you're at a bar with people, whenever one of them orders a heineken you should be obliged to yell "Heineken! what the fuck is that shit, Pabst Blue Ribbon!" and punch them in the stomach.

Here's to your fuck, Frank.

http://interviewproject.davidlynch.com

those short interviews of U.S small-town-locals are the most humanistic (along with The Straight Story) things he done, and one of his best projects in general imo.
great job.

ok, it's directed by his son - Austin, but still, it's great.like father , like son.

OK, does anyone here watch The Cleveland Show? This past Sunday's episode featured Lynch in an extended voice role as a bartender. When the character showed up, I was like, "Is that guy supposed to be David Lynch?" And the more he talked, I realized it really was him. Utterly weird. It's at Hulu if you want to see it.

Yeah, I watched that last night and had the exact same reaction. Bizarre.

saw blue velvet at a cinema last night with prob the worst audience possible - they just found pretty much everything about it totally hilarious.

there's a fair bit of comedy and as I said elsewhere it works really well as a satire of wholesome 50's Americana but to giggle throughout is coarse

at the Prince Charles? Have a bit of a love/hate relationship with that cinema..

I saw it coincidentally a couple of nights before his death was announced, on dvd. It was fabulous, of course.

giggling i can understand, sure, but not riotous laughing. i couldnt tell if it was film nerds showing how clever clever they were or just stupid people unable to treat it seriously. it was at the pcc yeah. i do like that cinema a lot, but sometimes you get some really fucking weird people there. eg - when i saw funny games one guy (maybe he was there last night too) just kept laughing at some of the most disturbing moments!

laughing at david lynch is not even on the same scale of inhumanity as eating at nandos

What about Chipotle? They opened one up on Charing Cross road recently, and embarrassing as it may be for myself, the food was awes for what is what.

*what it was.

i know nothing about chipotle

not tried that chipotle yet but i plan too soon
hopefully it wont be as bland as the mexian places in angel though

oh I went to one of those! just opposite the station. it wasn't BAD.

Thought it was better than Benito's Hat/El Burrito on Goodge, if you've been there.

My own barbecue slays Nando's anyday, but I do have a soft spot for the sauces on that counter.

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.