David Lynch RIP

[Teasing the Korean]

😿 https://variety.com/2025/film/news/david-lynch-dead-director-blue-velvet-twin-peaks-1236276106/

Edited Thursday at 06:37 PM by Teasing the Korean

[Misterioso]

RIP

Blue Velvet is among my favourite movies. 

[clifford_thornton]

Too bad, he was really something else.

[HutchFan]

R.I.P.

 

[Hardbopjazz]

R.I.P. David. Thanks for the great movies like the elephant man and eraser head.  

[JSngry]

[Teasing the Korean]

2 minutes ago, JSngry said:

The angriest - or Sangreyest - dog in the world!

[JSngry]

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....

[sgcim]

that very sangry dog.

[JSngry]

 

[jlhoots]

Lynch was great. R.I.P.

[kh1958]

Lost Highway, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire, Twin Peaks--one of my favorite filmmakers. And the way he incorporated music in his films was just fantastic.

[John L]

I had trouble getting with some of his movies.   But I consider Mulholland Drive to be a stone masterpiece.  

RIP

[Rabshakeh]

4 hours ago, John L said:

I had trouble getting with some of his movies.   But I consider Mulholland Drive to be a stone masterpiece.  

RIP

This is essentially my view too. Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet are the beginning to end masterpieces. The first few episodes of series one of Twin Peaks are even better but then tail off hard. The rest is a bit of a mixture really. Lost Highway, despite being so so, has the second greatest film depiction of oily white boy saxophone in American cinema (the greatest is of course Tim Capello in Lost Boys) and had a soundtrack that radicalised a generation, myself included. 

But overall he achieved one of the greatest things that I think an artist can, which is to re-invent the world, such that it is different for having him in it, and people recognise it differently. 

Edited Friday at 07:46 AM by Rabshakeh

[romualdo]

I was shocked when I heard the news this morning

Been a big fan since the late 70s after first seeing Eraserhead

He was out here (Australia) a few years back on a speaking tour which my partner & I attended here in Brisbane.

Our Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA, Brisbane) had a retrospective on him a few years back

RIP David

Edited Friday at 08:41 AM by romualdo

[GA Russell]

THE CRITERION CHANNEL JANUARY 17, 2025

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[Teasing the Korean]

15 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

The first few episodes of series one of Twin Peaks are even better but then tail off hard.

I think the entire first season and the second season through the solving of the Laura Palmer murder are fantastic, the best thing he ever did, along with Blue Velvet.  The post-Laura Palmer episodes of season two had little David Lynch involvement.  

[JSngry]

I very much agree.

[Adam]

Episode 8 of Twin Peaks: The Return (the third season) is right near the top of the most remarkable hours in the history of American TV.

I met him once.  I was acting as a docent on an architectural tour of "Industrial L.A." organized by the Modern Committee of the LA Conservancy.  He came through with Bill Pullman (who was starring in Lost Highway), his wife, and a couple of others.  Seems appropriate given his interests.

[Rabshakeh]

8 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

I think the entire first season and the second season through the solving of the Laura Palmer murder are fantastic, the best thing he ever did, along with Blue Velvet.  The post-Laura Palmer episodes of season two had little David Lynch involvement.  

I can see this as a valid argument, but in my opinion the quality tails off hard after episode three or so. What's left is still very good until the second series but it isn't anything like the level of the first episodes. My opinion only, obviously. I still wonder whether even with that tail off it isn't his Great Work. 

[JSngry]

Damn good pie. 

It's a thing.

[Jason Bivins]

Agreed with Adam re. S3E8. It's possibly my favorite thing Lynch did.

 

And the finale of season 2 is a masterwork, with Lynch heavily involved.

[clifford_thornton]