David Lynch - good, bad or what?

[Luciona]

one of my fave films ever. Fantastic story and looks as good

Same here. It's stunning. I have watched it with people who do not get it at all but even if the story escapes you, I dont think you can fail to be blown away by some of the sequences. (Naomi Watts' audition, The midnight theatre 'Silencio' bit - ahhh makes me go all tingly thinking about it!) This is the film that made me fall in love with Naomi Watts which even made the latest remake of King King worth watching.

 

[Spion]

The big question is - when is Inland Empire out in the UK?

 

[Luciona]

Fucking kills me when people say he's overrated, pretentious or whatever...same people will probably turn around in a minute and tell you Donnie Darko is their favourite movie; well without no David Lynch you aint go no Donnie Darko mate.

grrrr

Reading this thread I have been thinking about Donnie Darko as well.... when my dad watched it and didn't like it because he found it too ambiguous and pretentious. He had the same problem with Magnolia.. I have told him not to bother with Mullholland Drive! Tis a shame but some people want more concrete easy viewing films and just will not go all weak at the knees in suspended bliss at mind blowing stuff like Lynch's films!

 

[Groucho]

There was a thread other day saying S2 will be released R1 in a few months I think ...

Unfortunately, this is a sorry saga. Promised for 2005, then early 2006, then summer 2006, then autumn 2006, then early 2007, then summer 2007....

 

[Groucho]

..... And how many Lynch threads do we have each month? Quite a few! ...

I think I may have started most of them

 

[Reno]

The big question is - when is Inland Empire out in the UK?

It's been scheduled for 9 March.

 

[Dubversion]

well, 11 in about 3 years, and none for more than 6 months

 

[Spion]

It's been scheduled for 9 March.

Woo!

 

[kyser_soze]

Weird but brilliant.

Glad someone has had the guts to admit to liking Dune - altho it's massively flawed, getting that book into a visual medium in 2 hours is impossible. Lynch manages to convey some of the mystic aspects extremely well, and didn't really have the SFX technology to make stuff like the worms work...

My favourite Lynch movie, however, is The Strange Story. I rate it as one of the most emotionally satusfying films I've ever seen.

 

[Dubversion]

My favourite Lynch movie, however, is The Strange Story. I rate it as one of the most emotionally satusfying films I've ever seen.

is that the remake of the Straight Story where he speaks backwards?

 

[kyser_soze]

That'll be the one..

Actually it's his little know biopic of the 'legendary' 80s artiste, Steve Strange...

 

[Spion]

Weird but brilliant.

Glad someone has had the guts to admit to liking Dune

Idaho would like turds if they had little Dune logos on them, tbh

There is a Lynch-approved cut of Dune on DVD I believe. I'd like to see that

 

[Reno]

Idaho would like turds if they had little Dune logos on them, tbh

There is a Lynch-approved cut of Dune on DVD I believe. I'd like to see that

Unfortunately there isn't. There where rumors that he'd go back and recut it, but apparently it was such an unhappy experience for him that he doesn't want anything to do with the film anymore. There is a longer television version which was done without his approval.

 

[kyser_soze]

Is there? I've got some 2 disc poncy cardboard box effort with some additional bits, but I thought the completely uncut 4-odd hour, as Lynch intendeded version has only been seen once, at a private viewing...

 

[Spion]

Ahhhh, I must be thinkning of the 'theatrical cut' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(film)

Actually I wouldn't mind seeing it again just to see al the Lynch stalwarts in the cast

 

[kyser_soze]

Whenever I re-read Dune (which sadly is often) I always here Patrick Stewart's magnificent voice:

'Mood? Mood's a thing for cattle, or loveplay!'

Very good Gurney, even if Lynch only put a teeny scar down his cheek...

 

[Negativland]

FFS! Put simply, the first act is the thoughts of a dying woman as she dreamed her time in Hollywood as she wished it had been. The second act was what actually happened to her. Throw in a few Lynchian symbolisms about good and evil and that's pretty much it.

I never really saw it like that, the second part seems as much a dream as the first, the different realities are threaded together. The first part is the wish of the second, and the second the nightmare of the first - the only elements that stand apart from the story in both worlds are the homeless man and 'club silencio'.

 

[JohnC]

And how many Lynch threads do we have each month?

You can never have too many Lynch threads.

 

[tastebud]

You can never have too many Lynch threads.

Oh I agree. I just mean that he gets us talking. Which is good.

 

[DotCommunist]

Whenever I re-read Dune (which sadly is often) I always here Patrick Stewart's magnificent voice:

'Mood? Mood's a thing for cattle, or loveplay!'

Very good Gurney, even if Lynch only put a teeny scar down his cheek...

I did wonder where the massive inkvine scar was when I watched that. And the effects for the personal shield where quite good for its day. I did break out into uncontrollable laughter at the sight of a young scrawny Sting in metal pants

 

[Paul Russell]

I like Mulholland Drive, and watched it loads of times, trying to "figure it out". Reading some of the interpretations on the Interweb, etc., it makes approximate sense to me. But then again, the film was sort of cobbled together.

From Wikipedia:

"The majority of the film was originally shot in 1999 as a 95-minute pilot for a television series on ABC. The network was unhappy with the pilot and decided not to pick it up as a series. Lynch filmed new scenes in late 2000".

So there may be bit from the pilot that don't really link up to anything, and I'm sure Lynch likes it like that.

I think I read somewhere that Lynch *had a dream* that told him how he could tie the stuff from the pilot together!

Has anyone tried to solve Lynch's 10 clues that come with the DVD.

e.g.

1. Pay particular attention in the beginning of the film; at least two clues are revealed before the credits.

I never really saw it like that, the second part seems as much a dream as the first, the different realities are threaded together. The first part is the wish of the second, and the second the nightmare of the first - the only elements that stand apart from the story in both worlds are the homeless man and 'club silencio'.

 

[Paris Garters]

Love Lynch. Even if I don't know what the fuck is going on (yep, mulholland drive again) his films are so passionate and beautiful, so atmospheric and visually stunning that it doesn't really matter. He employs amazing people too, often trampling on conventional notions of what's 'beautiful' or 'sexy'.

Wild at Heart was the first film of his I saw, and is still one of my all time favourites.

Actually I saw Dune as a kid, and quite often find myself repeating "do not fear, fear is the mind killer" to myself while gibbering on a ledge up a mountain

ETA must watch mulholland drive again.