Teasing the Korean Posted January 16 Report Posted January 16 (edited) 😿 https://variety.com/2025/film/news/david-lynch-dead-director-blue-velvet-twin-peaks-1236276106/ Edited January 16 by Teasing the Korean Quote
Misterioso Posted January 16 Report Posted January 16 RIP Blue Velvet is among my favourite movies. Quote
clifford_thornton Posted January 16 Report Posted January 16 Too bad, he was really something else. Quote
Hardbopjazz Posted January 16 Report Posted January 16 R.I.P. David. Thanks for the great movies like the elephant man and eraser head. Â Quote
Teasing the Korean Posted January 16 Author Report Posted January 16 2 minutes ago, JSngry said: The angriest - or Sangreyest - dog in the world! Quote
kh1958 Posted January 17 Report Posted January 17 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. Quote
John L Posted January 17 Report Posted January 17 I had trouble getting with some of his movies. Â But I consider Mulholland Drive to be a stone masterpiece. Â RIP Quote
Rabshakeh Posted January 17 Report Posted January 17 (edited) 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 January 17 by Rabshakeh Quote
romualdo Posted January 17 Report Posted January 17 (edited) 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 January 17 by romualdo Quote
GA Russell Posted January 17 Report Posted January 17 THE CRITERION CHANNEL JANUARY 17, 2025 NOW PLAYING ON THE CHANNEL Celebrate David Lynch Please join us in saluting the life and work of an artist who not only changed cinema forever but also altered how we experience the world and showed us what it really means to dream. From now through the end of January, we’ve made the intimate documentary portrait David Lynch: The Art Life free to watch—no account necessary—as part of Celebrating David Lynch.  If you have questions, comments, or feedback about the Criterion Channel, please reach out to channelhelp@criterion.com! We’d love to hear from you.   Quote
Teasing the Korean Posted January 17 Author Report Posted January 17 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. Â The post-Laura Palmer episodes of season two had little David Lynch involvement. Â Quote
Adam Posted January 18 Report Posted January 18 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. Quote
Rabshakeh Posted January 18 Report Posted January 18 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. Quote
Jason Bivins Posted January 18 Report Posted January 18 Agreed with Adam re. S3E8. It's possibly my favorite thing Lynch did. Â And the finale of season 2 is a masterwork, with Lynch heavily involved. Quote
rostasi Posted January 23 Report Posted January 23 (edited) Watch 950 Weather Reports Presented by David Lynch, Straight from His Los Angeles Home To be honest, I've never seen anything of his except for his awful version of "Dune." Edited January 23 by rostasi Quote
clifford_thornton Posted January 23 Report Posted January 23 I didn't like Dune, but I have enjoyed other works of his. Mulholland Drive is certainly excellent, and I like Inland Empire a lot also. Quote
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