David Lynch - Classic or Dud

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— floor (@fleurmao) October 2, 2018

His Nudes book is kind of surprising but maybe not surprising at all. Most of the photos are dark and obscure extreme close-ups of women, some of them will have you puzzling over what you're actually looking at. There's only three photos resembling full body shots and two of them are so dark or obscured that you couldn't easily identify the models. I couldn't find credits for them but it seems like it was only a few women. Some of it looks like stills from his Inland Empire period, glaring light on faces.

Also featured is a couch with smoke trailing from it, looking like someone has just evaporated.

poor dougie

I was expecting to see some recognizable people and perhaps some of these women have had a minor part in a Lynch film but I was kind of keeping my fingers crossed for a really unexpected naked actor.

I dressed up as Ben from Blue Velvet for a Lynch tribute night and did the "Candy Colored Clown" lipsynch. Still waiting for phone footage of the lipsync but in the meantime this:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs4PyrZnhQJ/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=14wz30eqcav05&fbclid=IwAR2cmG4Hcq2r-h7Nq4428usBgEHOXspgaOfoBToK-xqwanr9RKWebPG8L94

I thought the lady who shot it this video was taking photos not a video. she calls me Kevin in the description. That's not my name.

Good costume!

Kino Lorber putting out Lost Highway on Blu in June.

Nice! Where are you seeing this?

Here

I'm ready for it. I wonder if it will have any decent special features.

Sweet!

Apparently an announcement about special features is forthcoming.

It would be awesome if the dialog in the early scenes were a bit more audible. I always have to crank the volume to make sense of it, and then I get slammed by that fucking maniacal sax solo.

I’ve had LH on blu for, like, 6 years. Has it not been available some places?

not region 1. saw some people complaining about the current blu transfer, said the movie's "never been graded correctly," though of course it's hard to get it right with such a (literally) dark movie

#LostHighway upcoming US Blu-ray release is rumored to have the following special features:

Audio commentary with Film Historian Tim Lucas

One-hour interview with #DavidLynch

Booklet Essay by Film Critic Nick Pinkerton

Animated Image Gallery

Trailer

— Ivan (@underthefan113) April 17, 2019

Saw on a different board that at the very least the Lucas interview had been dropped according to Lynch's longstanding stance on commentary tracks and that the only extra would be the trailer :/ Can't confirm, of course, but it wouldn't be the first time.

Booo

Dune is free on Amazon Prime. This has been a game changer

The spice must flow.

Now out on @Criterion pic.twitter.com/YX2WvU9KRZ

— Janus Films (@janusfilms) May 29, 2019

Got my copy in the mail today!

ICYMI, Lynch is a guest artiste on the new Flying Lotus album, intoning a little story on the track "Fire is Coming".

honorary Oscar this fall

That makes me nervous

because...?

Presumably because it's like a first draft epitaph.

Is fall a normal time for the awarding of honorary Oscars? Is there any reason they couldn't give him props on the telecast?

They stopped giving honorary Oscars roughly around the same time they decided they needed 10 best picture nominees.

Heaven forfend we don't get a chance to hear Gerard Butler summarize the plot of The Blind Side for us.

(xpost obv I meant stopped giving the honorary Oscars out on the telecast)

The oscars are bad not good and nobody should pay the slightest attention but these “honorary” ones can be quite funny

Geena Davis (humanitarian), Wes Studi, and Lina Wertmuller also getting em, and i think you can connect the dots

People aren't dots.

Lynch is the old white male dot.

Yeah, the epitaph aspect. I’m just thinking of Altman getting one months before he died.

otoh Spike Lee got one a couple years ago and he's fine

Why do you even need to go on living when you’ve achieved the artistic pinnacle that is the begrudging acknowledgment award

True. Did Hitchcock get his after Family Plot?

earlier, 1968

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2zjm79Esq4

(he was about 4 years younger than Lynch is now)

And for sure had more films in him than Lynch does now.

good thing DL is taking care of himself

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgYiKYlU0AE3Lm4.jpg

Adam Nayman on The Straight Story

https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/5/23/18636764/david-lynch-the-straight-story-20-years-later-cannes

It frustrates me that a lot of Lynch fans I know IRL dont rate this movie because its not grotesque enough (though they'd never admit that's the reason)

I love it but it's such an outlier even I sometimes forget about it.

except in the ways that it's not an outlier (detailed by Nayman).

I'm not saying you're wrong, but I got a chuckle when I read the header for that article.

It frustrates me that a lot of Lynch fans I know IRL dont rate this movie because its not grotesque enough (though they'd never admit that's the reason)

― One Eye Open, Friday, June 21, 2019

Really? I'm not doubting you, but I've never met these people in real life.

The Straight Story is his most Lynchian film wtf

Dunno if I’d say that but it is way lynchian for sure