David Lynch - Classic or Dud

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

If I define his ethos, broadly, as, "unearthing the unexpected in the most banal of surfaces," then TSS is at the top of the triumphs.

I think a lot of ppl would say a certain type of dread is a necessary component (but tss isn’t even completely free of that!)

The most Lynchian is definitely a stretch, especially now that we have the all-you-can-eat Lynch buffet that is Twin Peaks season 3.

i was full after ep 8

I find the surfaces of TSS among his creepiest.

I think he called it his most experimental film - he’s also called eraserhead his most spiritual film, and there’s no reason not to take him at his word in either case but I think most would swap those two around (or have IE supercede both on both counts)

The Return is his masterpiece

Have you seen the straight story?

I just went looking for home-video releases of TSS and that is a disgusting situation -- a DVD with package design so bad it looks like a bootleg, and no blu-ray. I demand the Criterion Collection do something about this soonest.