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- DirectorDavid LynchStarsIsabella RosselliniKyle MacLachlanDennis HopperThe discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.Roger Ebert found this movie to be exploitative, but that couldn't be further from the truth. For every moment it pokes fun at the absurdity of the characters' existences, it puts a lens to the pain, injustice and evil lying just beneath the plain American dirt.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsJack NanceCharlotte StewartAllen JosephHenry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.Lynchian starts here. This same story in the hands of another filmmaker wouldn't be anywhere near as interesting. It wouldn't resemble this at all, actually. Surreal, tragic masterwork with b&w cinematography as fine as a good cup of coffee. Impeccable craftsmanship and cutting, deep social commentary on entrapment.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsNaomi WattsLaura HarringJustin TherouxAfter a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsAnthony HopkinsJohn HurtAnne BancroftA Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.The final sequence of this film might be the greatest thing Lynch ever filmed. Purely haunting, soulful. Wish Lynch would go for a crowd-pleasing movie more often. As much as he's known as a 'weird' filmmaker, he's so genuine. He'll make stuff that tugs at your heart strings and breaks them. John Hurt is one of the all-time great actors.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsSheryl LeeRay WiseMädchen AmickLaura Palmer's harrowing final days are chronicled one year after the murder of Teresa Banks, a resident of Twin Peaks' neighboring town.This film skewers narrative conventions of filmmaking, but it does it to great effect. We get merely a taste of a terrifying, shortened existence, filled with pain and confusion. The imagery here is astonishing, even for Lynch. One of his most nightmare-like films.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsRichard FarnsworthSissy SpacekJane Galloway HeitzAn old man makes a long journey by lawnmower to mend his relationship with an ill brother.
- CreatorMark FrostDavid LynchStarsKyle MacLachlanMichael OntkeanMädchen AmickAn idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks.I don't believe I appreciated this until shortly after I finished watching. Mark Frost brings a structure to Lynch like the co-writers of The Elephant Man did a decade earlier. We see a more television palatable version of what he was tying to do in Blue Velvet, but this is even more than that: Twin Peaks is simply an amazing place and time to be allowed to visit, filled with lovable characters. It's unfortunate that the show went downhill after the big reveal.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsBill PullmanPatricia ArquetteJohn RoseliusAnonymous videotapes presage a musician's murder conviction, and a gangster's girlfriend leads a mechanic astray.Confoundingly experimental for most... I think I benefited from hearing people's thoughts on it before going in. The expression of masculine issues, the mystery of the narrative, and the hypnotic direction of actors, cameras and cuts drive this movie. Easy to emotionally become detached if you're not actively thinking about what it all means or paying attention to the subtleties in the acting and editing. That being said, it's something you could watch just as a cinematic mood-trip, but what's the fun in leaving your heart and mind behind?
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsNicolas CageLaura DernWillem DafoeYoung lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.The story is shaky here, but it makes up for that in the sheer audacity of putting together such disparate elements. What really helps this movie are the excellent performances and the genuine chemistry between Dern and Cage. Love the hamfisted Wizard of Oz references.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsDorothy McGinnisRichard WhiteVirginia MaitlandA young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.The production design of this little film is delightful. This is the last movie Lynch would do (partially) in this moving painting style, but I wish he'd go back. His style begins to solidify, and we see elements of what would become Eraserhead. Also, there's something adorable about a troubled, battered boy growing a 'grandmother' out of a big seed. Or terrifying. Not sure yet...
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsMarion CotillardClark GongEmily StofleA nameless woman enters her Shanghai hotel room to find a vintage record playing and a blue Dior purse that seems to come from nowhere.A strange introduction to Lynch's work for me, but he hooked me with all the tricks in his book. Fans find this either a strange failed short/advertisement or a self-parody of sorts. I find it to be neither. Clocking at 15 minutes, it's actually fairly dense thematically. Beautiful photography with a low-res video camera, fascinatingly directed as anything he's done. Dreamy as anything he's made.
- CreatorMark FrostDavid LynchStarsKyle MacLachlanSheryl LeeMichael HorsePicks up 25 years after the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town are stunned when their homecoming queen is murdered.
- DirectorDavid LynchA short continuously looping animation of six grotesque human figures vomiting.A moving painting that you can get lost in.
- DirectorDavid LynchMusic is produced by different objects in an industrial and desolate landscape.Mechanical melancholy monotony.
I wish so much that I could see this in a gallery and just stare at it moving for at least a half an hour. At least. - StarsDavid LynchA series of 5-minute line animations (drawn in the rough style and with the minimalist plots of David Lynch's The Angriest Dog in the World comic strip) featuring an angry and violent Neanderthal, and his family and neighbors.It's so... dumb, but why does it still feel like it's striking a cord somehow? Perhaps the disturbing art-style, the Americana, the pseudo social commentary. Lynch never does half-measures, and this might be the greatest example of that. Full-on dumb take on the animated sit-com.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsCatherine E. CoulsonDavid LynchA double leg amputated woman sits and writes a long meandering letter while her ineffective nurse attempts to attend to her stumps.This is either rather feminist or not. Either way, this is a great example of Lynch willing to experiment in the video format, though he wouldn't return to it until years later. Oh, and it stars the LOG LADY. Worth it just for that. RIP
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsJordan LaddEtsuko ShikataCerina VincentJohn's struggle to get out of a locked room with a sinister secret inside.Fascinating experiment in mood, tension. Watch it from time to time, but I'm not sure why I keep coming back. Perhaps the experiment was successful?
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsPeggy ReaveyA woman's dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.Lynch's first wife Peggy appears in this. Interesting transition from Lynch's idea of a moving painting to his experimental film style. This style was further developed in The Grandmother (1970).
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsEmily Elicia LowChris PoundersPandie SuicideAn ensemble of oddball characters provide percussion in a nondescript backyard while Lynch's lyrics flatly detail what's happening.Shenanigans galore in this hypnotic music video.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsMindy RamakerOne-minute short film, used as a trailer for the Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale).See... people seem to hate post Mulholland Dr. Lynch, but it's really just Lynch in his pure, unadulterated form. This little fun short is one of the better examples of this.
- DirectorDavid LynchA bug crawls over a house, which is located in a haunting environment.A longer portrait of the same vibe as the bugs under the grass in Blue Velvet.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsDavid LynchEmily StofleA journey into night.Of his shorts, this is the most home-video feeling. Left me with a feeling of happiness.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsChristian CharpinKhindelvert EmPatrick PramilA printing studio in Paris, France, document the lithographic process.Here, Lynch showcases his interest in Lithography by producing a short outlining the process. He's always been concerned with old ways of doing things, old ways of thinking.
- DirectorDavid LynchA short animated film that accompanies Interpol's song "Lights".Nice little animation for a... music video I guess.
- DirectorDavid LynchAttracted by the pure, green-hued energy of a merry little boy holding a red ribbon, a wraith-like female entity in a pale, light-blue dress roams the void spaces of a cavernous, peril-laden former factory.Great location, but I really don't understand why this was made. Good to watch as a mood piece at least once.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsJack FiskPeggy ReaveyA man approaches a woman in a field.This film is in quite bad condition, but it seems to almost be intentionally damaged. Anyway, it's certainly a curiosity stylistically. Nothing much more.
- DirectorDavid LynchA journey into absurdity.Made for one of those omnibus films, but I don't get much out of this.