David Lynch, R.I.P.

Oh my God. Oh my every god imaginable.

R.I.P. Could very well be my favorite director. I know he had emphysema, but this will still take a long time to process. If the Black Lodge exists, I hope I get to meet him there.

In the meantime, I'm listening to this:

I've merged the threads. Holden had it in the correct forum, so I sent Matt's thread over to Holden's. Looks like the forum software combined them in a way that preserves the time stamps. I would have liked to have had Holden's graphic at the top - perhaps @Yoda can rearrange, but I am doubtful.

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Irreplaceable.


All of his movies are good, even the one or two I don't actually like. But it doesn't get better than Inland Empire. Unless we count his Twin Peaks: The Return as a movie, which it isn't, but if it was....maybe the best thing he ever did? Certainly the greatest **** you parting shot an aging artist has ever done. Ever.

This is really sad. Heartbreakingly sad.
One of my absolute favourites. Grateful for Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Lost Highway & so many other things.

& introducing us to haunting music pieces, whether through collaboration with the late Badalamenti or picking the best songs.


RIP.

I'm still remembering my first day in college.. This girl who sat next to me in Philosophy liked the same music and movies.. We were writing notes to each other even during the lecture, and when she wrote the name 'Dennis Hopper', I wrote back something negative, and she wrote down, "Come over and we'll watch 'Blue Velvet' - it will change your opinion'"

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Wasn't expecting this news

They should hire you to decide where to end a TV series episode with a cliffhanger. WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?!

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San Franciscan lesbian dwarves and their tomato orgies.

I remember I loved Twin Peaks the TV series as a teenager, but don't remember anything about it.
Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive are on my masterpiece list.

I also love this song from Twin Peaks:

Damn. RIP to one of the real goats.

Oh man, what a loss. Such a uniquely weird fellow R.I.P.

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"Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream it takes over as the number one hormone. It bosses the enzymes, directs the pineal gland, plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to Film is more Film." - Frank Capra

Some shots I like from Mulholland Drive:









I also adore the sequence when Diane arrives at the party near the end of the film, and she and Camilla walk up from Mullholland Drive into the back entrance area of the house where the party is going on. The score, the camera...everything is just perfect.

I have this artwork up in my living room as part of my wall of film display that is a collection of various film posters and Mondo Art that takes up one entire wall:

Granted, Father Time is undefeated and it happens to us all, but still... Yeah, this is a tough one.

A very individual and unique talent with a very distinctive vision of the world. There will never be another one like David Lynch, just as there will never be another David Bowie. I believe I've seen every one of his movies at least once, and I've seen every episode of Twin Peaks (old and new). Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992) and The Elephant Man (1980) rank as two of my all-time favorite movies, and Lost Highway (1997) and Mulholland Drive (2001) aren't that far behind. Blue Velvet (1986) remains to this day an undisputed stone cold classic, and of course Eraserhead (1976) constitutes one of the most mind-blowingly bravura cinematic debuts of any filmmaker ever. Granted, his Dune (1984) was rather uneven and wasn't quite what he wanted it to be, but it still possesses the maestro's special touch and is very much worth watching.

I remember watching a really cool documentary called Lynch/Oz a couple years back. It deals with the influence of The Wizard of Oz (1939) upon not only David Lynch but other filmmakers. John Waters is one of the interview subjects, and a really cool picture appeared of Lynch and Waters standing together. One of these days, I'll probably get the Blu-ray of Lynch/Oz and watch it again. I also haven't watched Wild at Heart (1990), The Straight Story (1999) and Inland Empire (2006) nearly as much as the others I just mentioned. I'll probably be digging out my copies of those and playing them again.

A very sad day, but 78 years on the planet is still a pretty good run. He definitely made the most of them and left a very decisive mark on the world of cinema. Long may his filmography run!

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"Well, it's what people know about themselves inside that makes 'em afraid" - Clint Eastwood as The Stranger, High Plains Drifter (1973)

"I'll let you be in my dream if I can be in yours" - Bob Dylan, Talkin' World War III Blues (1963)

Certainly a unique director. I count Mulholland Drive and Eraserhead among my favorite films, and enjoy the hell out of the other ones I've seen. RIP

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Too long of a story.

Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to him on Instagram is as touching as I hoped it would be.

Either a flex or a duh.

Anyway, I rewatched Blue Velvet, and it was great! Surprisingly Hitchcockian, at least in the beginning, but more like a dark and twisted Film Noir then. Lynch is the only American director who comes to my mind who can create a really dense dark atmosphere.

Wonderful. Thanks for the link.

Wow, that's a bold from the blue. He was unique. This is a genuine loss.