Is any one a fan of American film director David Lynch. I watched "Inland Empire" last night, although it was strange and incomprehesible it was a captivating film.

His best film in my opinion is "Blue Velvet" a dark masterpiece.

Others worth watching are "The Straight Story", Wild At Heart" and "The Elephant Man".

Some of his more non-linear film like "Lost Highway" and "Mulholland Drive" are still worth a look.

For the hardened fan try "Eraserhead" one of the most surreal, nightmarish films ever.

The only thing I have never seen of his was the TV series "Twin Peaks" is this worth seeing???

I am a fan of David Lynch's work...An incredibly atmospheric and sensitive director with a real eye for detail and a great sense of humour..like all good surrealists...Twin Peaks, in my opinion, was a masterpiece of tv and one of my faves...Watch it all in sequence..Then see the sequel..Fire Walk With Me...
..Its a powerful, haunting and dark story...but the way Lynch tells it its also really beautiful and so funny at times.....The soundtrack is awesome too...

Hope you enoy it ...

Thanks for that Tron, I intend to.

I think the only film of his that I don't really like was his take on Frank Herbert's "Dune". I heard that it was a troubled shoot but the end product just doesnt "look" right. I found it difficult to sit through.

David Lynch has made some incredible films (Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Elephant Man, Mulholland Drive), and some poor films (Dune).

I always keep an eye out for his work, but he's reached that 'untouchable' stage now where he can release an overblown, self-indulgent and confusing mess of a film like Inland Empire and still have it heralded as a work of genius.

Twin Peaks is an excellent series though. Well worth getting hold of.

I adore Lynch's work! Such a creative director, and the surreal nature of some of his best works is what makes them stand out. Twin Peaks was a great TV series - at least until Lynch left the show (after the discovery of who the killer was - something Lynch never really wanted answered). After this point it got too deliberately muddled and surreal, lacking the fine touches Lynch brings to his tales (although when he returned for the final episode, the magic was back for one last outing).

The negativity towards Dune is a shame as the look and style of the film showed so much promise. It is worth remembering that Lynch was forced to cut the epic length film down to approximately a 2 hour running time (and the so-called directors cut that was released a few years back was nought to do with Lynch). To do so they trimmed sequences, and reshot some whole scenes, and added the voiceovers to explain what was missing. It would have been marvellous if we were allowed to see Lynch's original version, but that's unlikely to ever be so as he has refused to get involved with any release since, regretting his decision to make the film.

Even more interesting would be the end result had Lynch accepted the offer from a certain George Lucas to direct Return of the Jedi (seriously - Lucas was a big fan of Eraserhead, and wanted Lynch to do the finale to Star Wars trilogy). Imagine it, no more Ewoks, but lots of hopping dwarves :)



In addition, I love Lynch's insistence on Mulholland Drive's DVD release to not have chapter breaks, thus meaning that the film must be watched as a whole, not skimmed over.

Twin Peaks is simultaneously one of the best and worst TV shows ever.

Well actually not simultaneously, there are points in it that are amazing and can't be missed but there are also some really awful bits in it too. It picks up by the end though so I'd say it's worth watching through it for sure.:thumbsup:

Blue Velvet is one of my favorite fims ever. Wild at Heart is quite similar, but not nearly as good. Lost Highway helps me go asleep.

Breakerzoid

Interesting info on Twin Peaks. Do you know at which point David Lynch did not direct the series. There are 8 episodes in season 1 and 22 episodes in season 2 I believe.

Next to Stanley Kubrick David Lynch is my favorite director, im always happy to be baffled by his films, sometimes i dont think we should try and figure out what they are about and just look at them as visual art, INLAND EMPIRE being a special case of this.

Mullholland Drive in my opinion is his best film but i love them all, even got a soft spot for Dune......What happened on Dune was a good thing as it made him start to shy and back away from the Hollywood system (partly what Mullholland Drive is about) to have final cut, and pursue his own vision.

Breakerzoid

Interesting info on Twin Peaks. Do you know at which point David Lynch did not direct the series. There are 8 episodes in season 1 and 22 episodes in season 2 I believe.

He didn't direct a lot of them, but did direct some of the key ones. The last one he directed (aside from the final one) was season 2 episode 7, possibly the best episode of the shows entire run. It was the moment when the Giant revealed to Cooper that "it is all happening again" and Maddie found out who Bob was inhabiting. Chilling stuff!

After the reveal of the killer, Lynch lost his motivation for the show and left it in the producing hands of his partner on the show Mark Frost (Frost was all for the reveal apparantly). Not sure exactly what episode they stopped working together, but it was likely around the half way mark of season 2 (which was split into two chunks on original broadcast) as a few new producers joined the show around then.

I'm a big fan of Lynch, but it's "The Straight Story" i've watched time and again.

I'm a big fan of Lynch, but it's "The Straight Story" i've watched time and again.

Its a classic

The Straight Story is very good, very underrated. This and the Elephant Man are probably his most "mainstream" films but still have Lynchian moments.

Is any one a fan of American film director David Lynch. I watched "Inland Empire" last night, although it was strange and incomprehesible it was a captivating film.

His best film in my opinion is "Blue Velvet" a dark masterpiece.

Others worth watching are "The Straight Story", Wild At Heart" and "The Elephant Man".

Some of his more non-linear film like "Lost Highway" and "Mulholland Drive" are still worth a look.

For the hardened fan try "Eraserhead" one of the most surreal, nightmarish films ever.

The only thing I have never seen of his was the TV series "Twin Peaks" is this worth seeing???


Only if you have the mind of a twisted mad man on drugs who believes aliens are living in Rotherham and that Sheffield Wednesday is a front organisation for the Moonies.

Well, this thread got me in the mood for delving into Twin Peaks again for the first time in years. Began watching it from the beginning today and I have to say it isn't as good as I remembered......


......it is better! I'd completely forgot Lynch's use of the mundane to capture the emotions of the cast. Simple touches like the camera angle looking up the stairs, a lingering shot on a ceiling fan, or dialogue not relevant to the main story, making you really immerse yourself into the lives of the characters pretty early on. The emotional punch of the moment when Leyland realises that Laura was found dead struck me as hard as it did when I first watched it all those years ago, thanks to the use of the haunting musical score, and the cries on the other end of the phone.

I'm looking forward to working through the series over the next week or so.