Got my copy in the mail today!
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 02:12 (five years ago) link
ICYMI, Lynch is a guest artiste on the new Flying Lotus album, intoning a little story on the track "Fire is Coming".
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 05:32 (five years ago) link
honorary Oscar this fall
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 June 2019 14:44 (five years ago) link
That makes me nervous
― flappy bird, Friday, 7 June 2019 17:38 (five years ago) link
because...?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 June 2019 17:48 (five years ago) link
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?
― Try Oscar Mayer and Hellmann's new Bolognnaise! (Old Lunch), Friday, 7 June 2019 18:14 (five years ago) link
They stopped giving honorary Oscars roughly around the same time they decided they needed 10 best picture nominees.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Friday, 7 June 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link
Heaven forfend we don't get a chance to hear Gerard Butler summarize the plot of The Blind Side for us.
― Try Oscar Mayer and Hellmann's new Bolognnaise! (Old Lunch), Friday, 7 June 2019 18:25 (five years ago) link
(xpost obv I meant stopped giving the honorary Oscars out on the telecast)
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Friday, 7 June 2019 18:32 (five years ago) link
The oscars are bad not good and nobody should pay the slightest attention but these “honorary” ones can be quite funny
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Friday, 7 June 2019 18:41 (five years ago) link
Geena Davis (humanitarian), Wes Studi, and Lina Wertmuller also getting em, and i think you can connect the dots
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 June 2019 18:55 (five years ago) link
People aren't dots.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Friday, 7 June 2019 19:03 (five years ago) link
Lynch is the old white male dot.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 June 2019 19:22 (five years ago) link
Yeah, the epitaph aspect. I’m just thinking of Altman getting one months before he died.
― flappy bird, Friday, 7 June 2019 20:58 (five years ago) link
otoh Spike Lee got one a couple years ago and he's fine
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 June 2019 21:17 (five years ago) link
Why do you even need to go on living when you’ve achieved the artistic pinnacle that is the begrudging acknowledgment award
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Friday, 7 June 2019 21:22 (five years ago) link
True. Did Hitchcock get his after Family Plot?
― flappy bird, Friday, 7 June 2019 22:04 (five years ago) link
earlier, 1968
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2zjm79Esq4
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 June 2019 23:15 (five years ago) link
(he was about 4 years younger than Lynch is now)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 June 2019 23:19 (five years ago) link
And for sure had more films in him than Lynch does now.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Saturday, 8 June 2019 01:45 (five years ago) link
good thing DL is taking care of himself
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgYiKYlU0AE3Lm4.jpg
― flappy bird, Saturday, 8 June 2019 03:03 (five years ago) link
Adam Nayman on The Straight Story
https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/5/23/18636764/david-lynch-the-straight-story-20-years-later-cannes
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 June 2019 19:40 (five years ago) link
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, 21 June 2019 19:52 (five years ago) link
I love it but it's such an outlier even I sometimes forget about it.
― Chris L, Friday, 21 June 2019 20:08 (five years ago) link
except in the ways that it's not an outlier (detailed by Nayman).
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 June 2019 20:10 (five years ago) link
I'm not saying you're wrong, but I got a chuckle when I read the header for that article.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 21 June 2019 20:46 (five years ago) link
― One Eye Open, Friday, June 21, 2019
Really? I'm not doubting you, but I've never met these people in real life.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 June 2019 20:47 (five years ago) link
The Straight Story is his most Lynchian film wtf
Dunno if I’d say that but it is way lynchian for sure
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Friday, 21 June 2019 20:49 (five years ago) link
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.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 June 2019 20:51 (five years ago) link
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!)
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Friday, 21 June 2019 20:51 (five years ago) link
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.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 21 June 2019 20:52 (five years ago) link
i was full after ep 8
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 June 2019 20:53 (five years ago) link
I find the surfaces of TSS among his creepiest.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 June 2019 20:54 (five years ago) link
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)
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Friday, 21 June 2019 20:55 (five years ago) link
The Return is his masterpiece
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 21 June 2019 20:56 (five years ago) link
Have you seen the straight story?
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Friday, 21 June 2019 20:57 (five years ago) link
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.
― I am curious (george) (slight return) (WmC), Friday, 21 June 2019 21:33 (five years ago) link
are there different dvd versions? there appear to be at least 3 different cover images for it. I think it's the only feature of his I've never seen. I doubt it will surpass The Return for me, however
― Dan S, Friday, 21 June 2019 21:44 (five years ago) link
Yeah it's afaik the only Lynch work I still haven't seen (aside from the Duran Duran film but come on). They really do need to make with the blu-ray already, gahdammit.
― a fan of the Beetles, the Beach boys, the Monkeys (Old Lunch), Friday, 21 June 2019 22:06 (five years ago) link
It's still a great movie on DVD.
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 21 June 2019 23:07 (five years ago) link
I will watch it!
― Dan S, Friday, 21 June 2019 23:10 (five years ago) link
Not Straight Story Bluray news but...
Dear Twitter Friends, A Blu-ray of LOST HIGHWAY will be released very soon. It was made from old elements and NOT from a restoration of the original negative. I hope that a version from the restoration of the original negative will happen as soon as possible.— David Lynch (@DAVID_LYNCH) June 22, 2019
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 22 June 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link
Hih, that's disappointing
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 22 June 2019 18:08 (five years ago) link
great way to kill that BR release...!
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 24 June 2019 08:10 (five years ago) link
Xpost way upthread to Alfred - sure I would say its def not uncommon for me to meet ppl who profess to be super into lynch but aren’t really able to discuss (or in many cases haven’t seen) his movies that don’t feature IN YR FACE horror & grotesquerie. In my experience these are usually people under 40 for whom Lynch’s oeuvre is Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, and [everything else].
― One Eye Open, Monday, 24 June 2019 14:24 (five years ago) link
those ppl usually haven't seen The Elephant Man either
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 June 2019 14:34 (five years ago) link
Or any of his appearances on The Cleveland Show. Philistines.
― Top Number One Most Of Smart (Old Lunch), Monday, 24 June 2019 14:42 (five years ago) link
Kino Lorber responded to David Lynch's tweet from over the weekend. It sounds like Lynch's dissatisfaction with the release is partially his fault.https://t.co/J8NrKe7jLm pic.twitter.com/o1hSEYGKcn— Eric Dienstfrey (@SignalsToNoises) June 24, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 14:28 (five years ago) link
I know that Tim Lucas recorded the commentary track for the Kino Lorber release that Lynch nixed (on general principle - he just doesn't like 'em).
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 14:32 (five years ago) link