Your Top 5 David Lynch movies?
 

can't resist...

Mullholland Dr.
Lost Highway
Blue Velvet
Fire Walk With Me / Twin Peaks
The Straight Story

but then again - lots of appreciation for all his body of work...

1, Eraserhead
2. Mullholland Drive
3. Wild at Heart
4. Elephant Man
5. The Grandmother

tough one...

lost highway
blue velvet
eraserhead
mulholland
blue velvet

but twin peaks as a whole rules them all

1. Wild at Heart
2. Fire Walk with Me
3. Mulholland Drive
4. Lost Highway
5. Blue Velvet

oh damn, Ive forgot wild at heart. I knew this would be a hard thread

1. eraserhead
2. wild at heart
3. mullholand drive
4. blue velvet
5. lost highway

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Eraserhead
3. Blue Velvet
4. Lost Highway
5. Wild At Heart

He needs to do a version of The Metamorphasis. I feel like that would take the cake.

The best scene in any of his films is the part with David Bowie in Fire Walk with Me.

"Well now we're not going to talk about JUdy, no we're not going to talk about Judy at all."

that Bowie scene is great.

1. Eraserhead.
2. Mullholand Dr.
3. Blue Velvet
4. Lost Highway
5. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.

1. Inland Empire (I know lots of people, even Lynch fans got bored with it, but for some reason I just found it better and better as I watched.)
2. Eraserhead
3. Mullholland Drive
4. Fire Walk With Me
5. Blue Velvet

I've watched Inland Empire 4 1/2 times. I think it's okay.

What's your interpretation of it? I think Laura Dern is a ghost, and she was so addled over the violent events of her past that -- in a fugue state -- she picked up the phone to contact her ex-lover, who was a married man. Instead, she ended up calling a set of bunnies in a depression-era apartment, which uncoiled buried memories of previous reincarnations. Thanks to some weird and shocking revelations, she was able to play a record that threaded a needle into the grooves of her psychic field and, with the help of some old polish grandpas and a medium, reminded her of some more suppressed memories. A lot of the film is just her revisiting different points of her life and who she was and how she acted then. At the end, she realizes she'd been happier at home the whole time and should never have wandered away. The moment she promised herself never to fuck married men again, her imprisoned soul was freed, and endless repetitions of this same redemptive act unfolded across the astral plane, liberating thousands in the same transformative transcendental way that Buddha's fire sermon or Christ's death on the cross did for us all. If we would only read the writing on the wall and follow the path into the depths of the studio set, we too have salvation waiting for us.

Something like that.

1. Eraserhead
2. Blue Velvet
3. Wild At Heart (I haven't seen all of it, but I've seen enough to know this)
4. Mulholland Drive (same as above)
5. Lost Highway

Dune.

Adam, you interpreted it pretty much they way I did. Violent death. And her Ghost keeps reliving the same thing over and over again throughout the ages.

I actually loved Inland. It's hard to make a Top 5 of his films.

its pretty creepy to see him on the surveillance cam till cooper stands hisself in the middle of the floor

1. wild at heart (fantastic)
2. blue velvet (brilliant)
3. the elephant man (wow)
4. dune (terrible! i blame the producers. yet i've seen it 2-3 times)
5. eraserhead (great visuals but i fell asleep to it multiple times--never managed to watch it straight from start to finish)

i have seen mulholland drive but fuck if i remember *any* of it-- i will try again some day. i hate inland empire (i had to force myself to stay awake in the projection room), and i never managed to see lost highway after all so i have no opinion. haven't seen the straight story. twin peaks season 1 was amazing but doesn't count as a movie. fire walk with me is okay but feels like a dvd extra to twin peaks.

blue velvet
inland empire( though its an overload and too much)
mulholland drive
eraserhead
wild at heart


thought hard about this.

inland empire about gave me a heart attack. saw it once and thats all i need. love the digital shit everyone hatesabout it.

seems that's what he did with laura dern's cheekbones & open mouth on inland empire.

i mean the woman has fantastic cheekbones and some might like her mouth open but how long must one stare before needing a double espresso?

¡qué horror!

Eraserhead
Blue Velvet
Lost Highway
Elephant man
Inland Empire (mostly boring, but I loved the "rabbit" scenes)

i like the part in firewalk with me when chris isaak and harry dean stanton drink coffee, the rest of the movie was ok i guess. i liked blue velvet until dennis hopper,who i like, ruined it. and wild at heart was just the worst movie outside of laura dern's performance.

this guy has shit tonnes of potential but outside of twin peaks i don't think he's done anything that great, the best thing i can say about him is that he's smart for frequently hiring laura dern and harry dean stanton.

my favourite david lynch movie overall is this one, fun inside scoop on transcendental meditation and david lynch, but like actual david lynch movies it gets dragged down by unneeded scenes, in this case seemingly scripted arguments between a super earnest german lynch megafan and his girlfriend

I'm always impressed that Lynch is able to create his own weird world. Not sure how he does it. Movie magic? He must be massively talented.

And it's great he's able to make anything at all, against all odds. You go, bro.

But this just makes it all the more frustrating that he has jack to say about shit. He makes something now and then, I check it out, it's either cool or boring.

But ultimately he's very difficult to take seriously as an "artist."

ROGER EBERT on BLUE VELVET:


Rossellini is asked to do things in this film that require real nerve. In one scene, she's publicly embarrassed by being dumped naked on the lawn of the police detective. In others, she is asked to portray emotions that I imagine most actresses would rather not touch. She is degraded, slapped around, humiliated and undressed in front of the camera. And when you ask an actress to endure those experiences, you should keep your side of the bargain by putting her in an important film.

That's what Bernardo Bertolucci delivered when he put Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider through the ordeal of "Last Tango in Paris." In "Blue Velvet," Rossellini goes the whole distance, but Lynch distances himself from her ordeal with his clever asides and witty little in-jokes. In a way, his behavior is more sadistic than the Hopper character.

What's worse? Slapping somebody around, or standing back and finding the whole thing funny?


http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/blue-velvet-1986

There are no explanations.

He makes a wild ride, but once it's over, it's over.

Not much difference between that experience and a good action movie.

once more this is my all fav love scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ8ar_wuHfI

Led me to this: How to Make a David Lynch Film. Kinda funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miwyV7Go6ZE

Wild at heart is pantomime Metallica fanboy-ism shite.

Fire walk...
Inland..
Eraser..(this post)
Blue velvet - strip club near the bigg market.
Dawn of the dead homage short OR the foirst 20 minutes of Lost highway.

no fucking way--- it's a postmodern mythical hodgepodge (elvis, road movie, the wizard of oz), full of sex, violence, horror, and self-conscious ridiculousness. plus, a great cast. and it's a lot of fun.

and i fucking hate metallica (it's the horrible singing that kills it for me).

Dune

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please please please watch the documentary "jodorowsky's dune" (if you like jodorowsky). there is a hilarious sequence that relates to lynch's dune. but watch el topo and holy mountain first if you haven't.

seen el topo, and topo Gigio. Have not seen Holy Mountain.

I am lining up Jodorowsky's Dune in my sights. One of my coworkers told me all about it.

I don't "like" Jodorowsky" but then again I don't think he gives a shit.

Mulholland Dr.
Blue Velvet
Eraserhead
The Straight Story
Inland Empire (it disturbed me quite a lot when I saw it, I didn't like it, but I can't forget the impression it left on me)

pile of shit

name-calling without an argument to back it up? sure you can do better.

1. The Straight Story
2. Blue Velvet
3. Wild At Heart
4. Eraserhead
5. haven't seen any of the others

I didn't see any of Lynch's films after Wild At Heart (until The Straight Story) not out of any intense dislike for the guy and his work but because in a way the films were getting to be like a nagging wife--a lot of "wow, aren't these people weird" over and over. Give me something besides a freak show for the sake of it. That's why I went to see The Straight Story. I wanted to see what Lynch could do with a G rated film and he nailed it. It was adult, interesting, funny and not overly sentimental, while still having a good amount of Lynch's quirkiness. The scene in the bar with the guilt-ridden World War II vet was especially riveting.

I'm willing to check out some of Lynch's other post-Wild At Heart films if they're not just remakes of Blue Velvet. Any suggestions?

The Horror elements don't cut it for me which is a shame cos' Lynch is normally quite adept at tickling my macabre fancy, and also the sets are wonky as fuck.

I watched Dune the other day. Terrible, I can't even be bothered to explore and articulate what was exactly wrong with it as it would just become boring and tediously dull like the film. Wey there's one: Dull. That's about as much emotion I can muster on this clusterfuck.