David Lynch Thread

[sus]

Time for the Instagram girlies to all post RIP David Lynch, mourning providing an opportunity for publicly advertising cultural capital in a socially accepted manner.

 

[version]

I think the last couple of episodes of The Return had some of the most frightening things he did. That scene at the end of the penultimate one with Sarah attacking the photo of Laura...



The ending was absolutely chilling. I felt like I'd been punched in the stomach for a couple of days after that.

 

[IdleRich]

I love that there is that bit in Twin Peaks which implies a sequel 25 years later - and he delivered. He must have thought, TP was weird in 90 or whatever it was, but I gotta up the ante now. And that he did. And it really worked, though I sadly don't remember that bit you mentioned.

 

[DLaurent]

The skull crusher crackhead from Twin Peaks s3 was good, when it goes all 'nuclear' with the warped filtered noise sequence. Got my sister into the whole of Twin Peaks and there was a time when the thought of season 3 coming out kept me going, it turned out to have some very 'nostalgic' bits like how it ended in Bang Bar every episode.

I think the first one I'll rewatch will be The Straight Story, as it's the one I have least recollection of.

 

[IdleRich]

Straight Story, Elephant Man are perfectly good films but they're not what I'm looking for from Lynch.

 

[version]

The skull crusher crackhead from Twin Peaks s3 was good, when it goes all 'nuclear' with the warped filtered noise sequence.

The sound's one of my favourite things about it. The way him and Hurley do electricity's great.

 

[DLaurent]

I like some of his shorts like Boat and Steps.

 

[william_kent]

David Lynch - The Air is On Fire

a perfect drone album



David Lynch - Pink Room

repetitive sleazy blues - it doesn't go on long enough in Fire Walk With Me so I had to track down the 6 minute version - although someone has done an hour long edit which might be too much....



David Lynch & Marek Zebrowski - Polish Night Music

I might have to rewatch Inland Empire this weekend

RIP

 

[IdleRich]

Time for the Instagram girlies to all post RIP David Lynch, mourning providing an opportunity for publicly advertising cultural capital in a socially accepted manner.

I was talking to Liza and saying "David Lynch is dead" and she was saying "I'm already bored of every single wanker on fb insta twitter baning oa about it" - I'd only just heard.

 

[version]

I was talking to Liza and saying "David Lynch is dead" and she was saying "I'm already bored of every single wanker on fb insta twitter baning oa about it" - I'd only just heard.

Sometimes I feel like that but then I also feel like that about the people trying to act above it all and moaning about everything too, so you can't win.

 

[IdleRich]

Sometimes I feel like that, but then I also feel like that about the people trying to act above it all and moaning about everything too, so you can't win.

Yep you can't win, there is no way to escape this vicious post-modernity trap. Even by talking about how there is no way out.

 

[yyaldrin]

what would you say were the defining themes of his movies?

 

[Murphy]

He caught part of the psychotic mood inherent in the American experience



and its more serene moments of madness too

 

[version]

what would you say were the defining themes of his movies?

The opening of Blue Velvet with the camera going from picket fences and roses to squirming insects and dirt basically sums up his whole thing. The rot beneath the dream.

 

[dilbert1]

I must remember to watch this tomorrow, neatly enough Lost Highway was on telly a couple of weeks ago and although I've seen it several times I just started watching the first bit and then predictably enough ended up watching the whole thing.

Did you ever peep this gem Rich?

 

[dilbert1]

“Hope you’re doing OK, Pete” scene some of his funniest shit

 

[Mr. Tea]

what would you say were the defining themes of his movies?

I liked that one thing he did once about the hidden world of surreal horror and depraved violence behind the facade of ostensibly wholesome small-town America, oh what was it called now?

 

[Mr. Tea]

Time for the Instagram girlies to all post RIP David Lynch, mourning providing an opportunity for publicly advertising cultural capital in a socially accepted manner.

Exactly! In contrast to serious men, like us.

 

[IdleRich]

what would you say were the defining themes of his movies?

Good question, cos the obvious thing everyone will say is small-town suburban weirdness or something but really that's only Blue Velvet and maybe Twin Peaks - and most of his other films that are about totally different subjects still have the same feel. Some kind of neo-noir thing with pseudo-depth from things that look like they mean something but probably don't, yet somehow they end up achieving something anyway.

 

[IdleRich]

I've got that Pink Room track on vinyl somewhere. I love that grinding blues type thnig.