The David Lynch Thread

[Paul@TheOverlook]

[QUOTE=James Morton;253570]

Originally Posted by Baseball Fury

I always thought Lost Highway was based around "An Occurence at Own Creek Bridge" which is about a guy dreaming of escaping from prison and going home as he's being executed.

i know Adrian Lyne's JACOB'S LADDER is based more on that story

You beat me to it!

[sjconstable]

Originally Posted by Paul@Lovelockandload

I saw HOUR OF THE WOLF for the first time this year and it's clear to see that LOST HIGHWAY's Mystery Man was influenced by 'Bird Man' from Bergman's film.

I saw that for the first time too recently, good film!

[Paul@TheOverlook]

It is, eh? Excellent.

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Yeah I'm a fan of 'Vargtimmen' as well.
VERY atmospheric and moody!

You're right,Lynch is probably a fan of this as well.

By Christ,Max Von Sydow looks young in it don't he?

[Paul@TheOverlook]

He really does. He'd have been late 30s, I think.

[James Morton]

Originally Posted by Paul@Lovelockandload

He really does. He'd have been late 30s, I think.

yeah, 38 or 39
when he made SLEEPLESS he looked about in his early 60's when he was 71

[Handyman Joe]

For me Lynch is the King, the Daddy, the Numero Uno. I saw Eraserhead on VHS when I was around 16, Blue Velvet at the cinema on my 18th birthday (with a bottle of voddy and coke under the seat) and every one on the big screen since - never been disappointed, he's the greatest living director bar none because his work cares not a shit for convention, expectations or commercial success. I genuinely couldn't single out a 'best' movie but I would say that Fire Walk With Me is the single most underrated film in his ouvre. It's a comedy/spoof of his Twin Peaks career, it's a harrowing study of incest and addiction (Sheryl Lee won the Oscar that year don't let anyone tell you different), it's a horror movie with one of the (BOB!) greatest ever boogeymen, it's teenage high school movie (BOBBY!), but more than anything it's a David Lynch movie complete with killer soundtrack, one-liners and bat-shit surrealism. The Elephant Man is also the only movie to make me cry and Inland Empire has the best end credits sequence in film history. I love David Lynch.

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

On my second run of Lynch's boxset....
The start of Lost Highway is CLASS!

But then,halfway through we get that WTF happened here?

[Slippery Jack]

Just stop trying to make any sense of it, and just go with it same with Mulholland Dr. and Inland Empire, a trilogy of sublime impenetrable nuttiness . . .

[Beyond72]

Maybe because I've just recently watched Mulholland Drive for a second time, watching Lost Highway for the first time last night it didn't seem that WTF!? to me.
Now Eraserhead was a different matter altogether! I haven't watched it for a few years, but while I admired it very much, I thought the ending was a piss take. We be interesting to watch it again soon.

Don't know whether to take a chance on the Twin Peaks boxset. (As I know who the killer is.) I started to watch it at the time but once I had missed a few episodes, I gave up.