Tag: David Lynch
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Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)
David Lynch has never been a filmmaker to pander to his audience or coddle them if they react negatively to his work. Rather, like a good parent, he sternly but lovingly introduces them to a slightly different experience that, given the proper attention, is difficult but rewarding. It is surprising that Lynch returned to Twin…
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Inland Empire (2006)
David Lynch’s most recent feature film challenges and expands the understandings of cinema and its artistic context far beyond anything he made before to the point where a mere attempt to ‘review’ or ‘critique’ what happens is more than futile but downright irrelevant. Lynch’s purposes behind this experiment, to the degree that they are understandable,…
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The Straight Story (1999)
It’s almost hard to believe that The Straight Story is directed by David Lynch, whose previous work is responsible for his characterization as the first popular surrealist in American movies. Very little, if anything, about this movie is surreal, except perhaps the sense of the passage of time. In nearly every scene, Lynch slowly builds…
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
What a masterful adapter of circumstance David Lynch is! Orson Welles once said that a director is someone who presides over accidents and Lynch’s ability to continually develop his stories in spite of certain actors not being available or funds drying up or various incidents occuring marks his true artistry and is proof of how…
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Twin Peaks (1990-1991)
One of the fundamental aspects about David Lynch is that he is wholly committed to the creative process, regardless of the medium. For Lynch, a painter who progressed to experimental short films, the jump to feature films is not unusual, especially since he envisioned these projects as ‘moving paintings.’ But few could have predicted that…
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Wild at Heart (1990)
Wild at Heart is the most Lynchian response to a David Lynch movie such as Blue Velvet. Adapted from a Barry Gifford novel, which focuses on a couple of star-crossed lovers attempting to rid themselves of hateful and malevolent family members, there is no doubt Lynch saw tremendous opportunity for irony and comical commentary on…
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Blue Velvet (1986)
After two subpar productions in which his idiosyncratic vision was unable to reach full capacity, David Lynch garnered the opportunity not only to make a movie with total creative control but also to delve deep into the themes and notions of his first feature, Eraserhead, which in many ways laid the foundation for Blue Velvet.…
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Dune (1984)
When an artist capable of dreaming up his own, unique world collides with a different, unique world not of his making, the result can be either spectacular or disastrous. In either case, the result is typically neither boring nor forgettable. Yet, when it comes to David Lynch’s adaptation of the science-fiction classic novel Dune, these…
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The Elephant Man (1980)
The Elephant Man is primarily an anti-David Lynch movie despite the bizarre surrealist sequences bookending the historical drama. How Lynch found his way to this material is as unusual as the combination of his style with that of the movie’s producers and writers. Despite his established background as a comedic writer, director and actor, producer…