D. Lynch

they finally got him

Germany got Richard Wagner. We got Lynch. It's a great sadness.

Him and Herzog both.

Are anons ready to apologize yet after seeing DUNC?

Feels bad man. At least the Return was amazing and a fantastic thing to end on.

I liked his weather forecasts

is it possible to achieve this look by the time I'm 40 or am I going to have to wait at least 20 more years?

D. Lynch

He's not a fucking Street Fighter character, just call him David Lynch

IF YOOOOOOOOU CAN BELIEEEEEEEVE IT

What should i watch of his best works? M.drive and twin peaks only? For best experience

All of them really. Blue Velvet is probably the best starting point or Elephant Man.

i like his Dune, fight me. In his last years he finally came around to the idea of looking at the footage again and maybe making a new edit. Wonder what that 4 hour original cut was like...

he didnt have much to do with most of twin peaks, read 'Room to Dream' he was in the middle of another project.

I do too. I was watching The Neon Demon a little while ago and they had Elle Fanning being terrorized while she stays in a little piece shit rotting LA motel. And it hit me so hard that there will never be another film by Lynch to properly depict that kind of existential horror that comes from being trapped in the permanent ugly hangover of LA's boom times.

He just had a talent of engaging so many of your senses as a viewer- whether he was depicting fear and horror or celebrations of love and sincerity. He drew from some otherworldly place of artistry.

Dave got a hernia from laughing so hard the first time he heard badalamenti sing. He also laugh his ass off when they filmed that edgy scene in Blue Velvet

Eraserhead is my favourite, its his most spiritual work.

Lynch's Dune is so great. It actually understood the value of depicting the universe of the books as something so alien that we could only get a sense of their cultures. New movies are competently shot and it's obvious why they were able to draw in millions, but they also feel sort of soulless.

from some otherworldly place

daydreaming. Thats it. Sitting and thinking and smoking.

Just go chronologically from Eraserhead. All of it's amazing

just that beautiful production design by itself, a lot of the background is crafted out of solid mahogany

I understand that's how Lynch liked to present it when he wasn't feeling open enough to dig into his TM work, but there's an entire video and book about how he conceptualized his ideas as pulling from the great untapped reservoir of humanity. You can even see a direct visualization of it in The Return as the purple place

But his work involved working and recording the product of his daydreaming. He absolutely draws on the notions of synchronicity and the collective unconsciousness that Jung believed in.

Just finished watching this for the second time and I still got filtered.
I like his other works but Inland Empire is almost parody-tier. Why would he end his film career with that movie specifically? He had like 2 decades to make something better

I think there's a movie inside of Inland Empire that Lynch could never fully coax out. If you watch the behind the scenes material on it you'll notice that he seems very frustrated or defeated at times. On the other hand, there are moments of sort of liminal atmospheric tension that are complimented so well by the digital filming that you can almost imagine what Lynch intended the end product to be.

But ultimately, it does seem like a pretty flawed work insomuch as it's hard to understand what to take away from it. I think if you imagine the entire film is telling a kind of multi-generational tale of a Polish curse that follows Dern through her normal life and concludes with Grace Zabriskie being the entity that is cursing her, that's kind of a throughline to understand the film.

I have Catching the Big Fish coming in the mail this week. I dont like the idea of having to learn TM in person and pay for it so maybe theres another way. I heard theres a guy that make a break off group without all the woo-woo and fees. ACEM

wild to me that Inland Empire was filmed on a consumer DV camera. He said he would never go back to film. I think hes operating the camera most of the time. Maybe having endless 'film' made the picture too baggy and crowded.

I think if you imagine the entire film is telling a kind of multi-generational tale of a Polish curse that follows Dern through her normal life and concludes with Grace Zabriskie being the entity that is cursing her, that's kind of a throughline to understand the film

Yeah that's what I thought too within the first 30 minutes and then it meanders for 2 and a half hours. It recycles the script reading scenes from Mulholland Drive, the reality within a reality from Lost Highway, the rabbits sections were just self referential and cringe.
It just seems to me like it exposed Lynch as an artist with a handful of gimmicks and nothing more

im struggling to get through Twin Peaks S2, watching for the first time
can you guys send me some psychic energy to help me out?

Honestly you can just skip all the episodes where Cooper isn't wearing his suit. Once he gets it back the show instantly gets good again. The last 4 episodes are good again, mostly

posting your astral frequency on the internet

nope. no thanks.

It's such a sadness.

Power through. It gets rough but the end is so worth it. You also miss out on some character arcs that come up again in S3.

Enjoy it for what it is. Get into the intrigue, laugh at the goofy unnecessary shit. You'll never get more, this is all we have and you'll never watch it for the first time again. Helps to be into Anon Babble shit.

He gave up making movies after Inland Empire so yeah I don't think it was enjoyable for him