Celebrity Death: David Lynch (78)

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Huge, huge Twin Peaks fan and his Dune is one of my all time favorite movies. He's a true artist, his movies are nuts. Inland Empire, Wild at Heart, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, very original stuff that's just out there.

I watched Twin Peaks so many times but I still have yet to sit down and watch the Return as I am worried it will ruin what is to me the greatest show ever made. At some point I guess I will have to watch it though.

If you enjoyed Fire Walk With Me, and like Inland Empire and Lost Highway, you’re the type of person who will enjoy The Return. It’s the greatest season of television of all time in my opinion. Won’t be touched.
 
If you enjoyed Fire Walk With Me, and like Inland Empire and Lost Highway, you’re the type of person who will enjoy The Return. It’s the greatest season of television of all time in my opinion. Won’t be touched.

i have heard some good things on it, so I may get around to it soon then later.
 
The Elephant Man was memorable (John Hurt was incredible). My favorite DL film was an atypical one for him, The Straight Story, beautifully shot. When I think of Lost Highway, it reminds of the opening scene from the noir classic Kiss Me Deadly. Some memorable films.
 
So unique, such a maverick so far removed from the herd. I wasn't a fan of all his movies (though I don't think that the US has produced a better movie this century than Mulholland Drive), but I loved the sense of expectation and the possibility of surprise that I had sitting in a dark theatre waiting for a Lynch film to start. While he contributed greatly to modern noir, he literally became his own genre.
 
So unique, such a maverick so far removed from the herd. I wasn't a fan of all his movies (though I don't think that the US has produced a better movie this century than Mulholland Drive), but I loved the sense of expectation and the possibility of surprise that I had sitting in a dark theatre waiting for a Lynch film to start. While he contributed greatly to modern noir, he literally became his own genre.
Basically this. I didn't always vibe with him but I always appreciated him.
 
Still thinking about Lynch. Honestly I'm always kinda thinking about him. Yesterday, today and surely tomorrow. Said this before around these parts but he was someone I had to grow into. Both The Elephant Man and Dune made an impression on me at a young age. Two of the less-Lynch movies in his filmography in a comparative sense though they're both still very him because everything he did was him. But by college I was really bumping up against his stuff and I distinctly remember being at a party where someone I knew as raving about Lost Highway and it all sounded like such bullshit to me. I rolled my eyes. Just the absolute epitome of pretentious film boy blather. (And me here oblivious to the pot-kettle-blackness of the situation).

It wasn't him. It was me. (And, honestly, the guy I knew).

Even Mulholland Drive was a slow process for me. I liked it initially but perhaps not as much as many (much more now). It reopened that door for me, at least a crack. But it was making my way around to Twin Peaks that finally did it. It was such a silly little thing that unlocked him for me, but it was this: He's funny. I was only seeing the darkness (and there is plenty of that) but I always missed the light. Finally seeing the balance and that humanity that always existed was my key that sent me back journeying through his work which I've now revisited multiple times, growing in stature each time. I even came around on Lost Highway. Though I must confess I still struggle with Eraserhead.

He was a serious man who never seemed to take himself too seriously. Witness pretty much every acting performance he ever gave, each a folksy masterpiece in and of itself.

As has been pointed out here already, though you may not necessarily think of him as a noir filmmaker he absolutely is. That skeleton (and the lightness/darkness inherent in such stories) is the bones of so many of his films. Another aspect of which I was slow on the uptake.

And no one short of Bunuel has ever conceived and shot dreams and nightmares as well as Lynch did. Everyone else is a pale imitation.
 
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