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Post by RNL on Nov 28, 2005 18:43:40 GMT
David Lynch (1946- )_1. Eraserhead (1977) 10/10_2. Blue Velvet (1986) 8/10_3. Mulholland Dr. (2001) 8/10_4. Inland Empire (2006) 8/10_5. Lost Highway (1997) 7/10_6. Rabbits (2002) 7/10_7. The Alphabet (1968) 7/10_8. The Straight Story (1999) 7/10_9. The Elephant Man (1980) 7/1010. Wild at Heart (1990) 6/1011. Hotel Room (1993) 5/10 (segments: "Tricks" & "Blackout")12. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) 5/1013. The Grandmother (1970) 5/1014. The Amputee (1974) 4/1015. To Each His Cinema (2007) 4/10 (segment: "Absurda")16. Darkened Room (2002) 3/1017. Lumière and Company (1995) 3/10 (segment: "David Lynch/Premonitions Following an Evil Deed")18. The Cowboy and the Frenchman (1988) 2/1019. Dune (1984) 2/1020. Six Figures Getting Sick (1966) 2/1021. Dumbland (2001) 1/10
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Post by Capo on Dec 7, 2005 17:31:20 GMT
Have you seen Lynch's effort in the collaboration film Lumiere et Compagnie? I just downloaded it the other day. An agreeably odd (that would be Lynchian) short, which, according to Time Out, is the most distinctive of the lot--along with Peter Greenaway's attempt. Both, according to the same review, "blithely ignore the ground rules."
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Post by RNL on Dec 7, 2005 18:26:04 GMT
Yeah, I've seen it. It's quite beautiful.
Since it's a segment of the Lumiere anthology project, I wouldn't rate it on it's own (...but it'd get three if I would).
I haven't seen Greenaway's. I can't find it on its own, so I plan to download the entire project.
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Post by Vercetti on Dec 11, 2005 18:43:48 GMT
Mulholland Drive Blue Velvet
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Post by Vercetti on Jan 12, 2006 6:05:43 GMT
Eraserhead was just released this past Tuesday in the states.
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Post by RNL on Jan 12, 2006 23:57:51 GMT
Yeah.
Although the cover is ugly (what's with the "2000" stuck down the side?), I can't wait to buy it. I've never seen a good print of Eraserhead. The region 2 DVD is cropped into 4:3 and the image is muddy.
I'm dying to see it the way it's supposed to be seen.
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Post by ronnierocketago on Jan 13, 2006 0:59:31 GMT
Interestingly, one of Kubrick's favorite movies was ERASERHEAD. Quite a compliment....
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Post by svsg on Jan 20, 2006 4:20:38 GMT
Lost Highway Mulholland Drive
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Post by jrod on Jan 20, 2006 4:21:34 GMT
Blue Velvet
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Post by Capo on Feb 7, 2006 21:58:07 GMT
Wet Dog, have you seen any of Dumbland yet? I've only seen the opening segment. It reminds me very much of Salad Fingers, which had always reminded me of Lynch's work anyway.
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Post by RNL on Feb 7, 2006 22:17:05 GMT
I've downloaded it dozens of times, but the sound never worked. I've recently learned it's because it was coded for an obsolete version of QuickTime (v5.0, I think), so I need to find that somewhere. I found this site, by the way, which lists a hell of a lot of shorts that IMDb doesn't. Seemingly they're all for davidlynch.com. I'll be looking into it.
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Post by Vercetti on Feb 10, 2006 0:49:46 GMT
Updated with Mulholland Drive, which is his best I've seen so far.
I really wanna see Lost Highway now.
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Post by Michael on Feb 10, 2006 2:43:05 GMT
Wow. 4 stars? Now I really feel like shit for returning the movie without seeing it.
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Post by Capo on Feb 18, 2006 21:06:52 GMT
_1. Blue Velvet 1986 _2. Eraserhead 1976 _3. Inland Empire 2006 _4. Lost Highway 1996 _5. Mulholland Dr. 2001 _6. The Elephant Man 1980 _7. The Straight Story 1999 _8. Rabbits 2002 _9. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992 10. The Amputee 1974 11. The Alphabet 1968 12. The Grandmother 1970 13. Darkened Room 2002 14. Wild at Heart 1990 15. Six Figures Getting Sick 1966 16. Dune 1984
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Post by RNL on Feb 18, 2006 21:44:17 GMT
Seeing as this marks Lynch's fortieth anniversary as a filmmaker, would you agree that he tends to reinvent and redefine himself every ten years?
Great films in between, too, but each decade there seems to be a career milestone.
Eraserhead --> Blue Velvet --> Lost Highway
Inland Empire, I think, definitely promises to keep up the trend.
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Post by Michael on Feb 18, 2006 21:48:42 GMT
I simply can't wait to see Inland Empire. I hate going to the cinema, but I'll go for this movie. Mainly because people going to see a Lynch movie obviously understand the importance of experiencing a film WITHOUT ANY ADDED NOISE.
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Post by Capo on Feb 18, 2006 22:03:19 GMT
Very interesting observation, which I hadn't noticed, mainly due to thinking Lost Highway was 1997 until I came to post in this thread and saw your date for it.
I'd be interested in seeing if any of your ratings change when you undergo your Lynchathon. The Elephant Man blew me away earlier tonight. Of his short films, I'd have to rate either Rabbits or The Amputee his best. The latter is genius, in presenting a kind of challenge to its audience: what to watch. It's impossible to concentrate on the leg and absorb the words, and likewise, equally as difficult to watch the amputee writing her letter and get past the horrific sounds of the metal clunking away at the leg stump. I love that kind of stuff. Greenaway does it too, in a different way, in presenting images and text in different parts of the screen (at least he does in the only film of his I've seen, The Pillow Book). Few other directors explore the frame as interestingly as this. By the way, does your downloaded version of The Amputee play twice? Mine does. Not sure if it's just a loop in the download, or it's meant to play that way.
What are your favourite Lynch moments? Obviously to be discussed in further depth after your revisits, but for now: - The scene in Eraserhead in which Henry visits Mary at her house; that whole sequence of meeting the parents and sitting at dinner. "So, Henry, what do you do?" while the daughter has a fit.
- The dream in episode 2 of Twin Peaks, season one. "Where we're from, the birds sing a pretty song, and there's always music in the air." Or should that be, ".ria eht ni cisum syawla s'ereht dna ,gnos ytterp a gnis sdrib eht ,morf er'ew erehW"? The moment where the music starts to come in, and the Little Man from Another Place gets up off the seat to dance, and the light starts to flash gives me goosebumps.
- When Frank and co. take Jeffrey to Suave Ben's in Blue Velvet, and Dean Stockwell, as Ben, sings "The candy-coloured clown they call the sandman" into the lamp.
- The party scene in Lost Highway, when Fred is approached by the Mystery Man, and told to phone his home. "I'm there right now." Most definitely one of the most genuinely frightening, nightmarish moments I can think of.
- Lynch's most moving scene, the final moments in The Elephant Man, when Merrick signs his sculpure with Barber's "Adagio for Strings" coming in.
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Post by Michael on Feb 18, 2006 22:09:01 GMT
My favorite Lynch moment is in Eraserhead when his future father-in-law lets him have the "honors" of cutting the "chicken." The feelings I got from that scene cannot be explained in words.
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Post by Capo on Feb 18, 2006 22:11:30 GMT
My favorite Lynch moment is in Eraserhead when his future father-in-law lets him have the "honors" of cutting the "chicken." The feelings I got from that scene cannot be explained in words. "We got chicken tonight. Strange damn things. They're man-made. Little damn things." I just love the way the father carries on smiling at him when the two ladies leave the dining area. What a smile!
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Post by Michael on Feb 18, 2006 22:14:34 GMT
Mr. X: Oh. Printing's your business? Plumbing's mine. For 30 years now. I've watched this neighborhood change from pastures to the hell-hole it is now! Mary X: Dad! Mrs. X: Bill! Mr. X: I put every damn pipe in this neighborhood. People think that pipes grow on trees. But they sure as hell don't! LOOK AT MY KNEES! LOOK AT MY KNEES!
That scene feels like a nightmare. God that is such a great movie.
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