david_lynch raze well_shit. i don't think any filmmaker ever did "dreamlike" better than lynch. "eraserhead" plays like a ninety-minute nightmare you can't quite will yourself to wake from. he created a cinematic language and tone that were his alone, valuing imagery and soul over narrative. and he could make you weep by showing you how good people can be, and how broken. imitators will continue to sprout up like random weeds, i'm sure. but they won't have his strange, beautiful heart. there won't ever be another like him. 250116 ... Jus Is it crazy that I have yet to see any of his films? Should I add some to my 2025 Resolutions? 250116 ... raze i wish i could make a recommendation, but it's tough, because david_lynch_movies are all so different. there are total brain-benders like "mulholland_drive", "inland empire", and "lost highway". then there's something like "the straight story", which is so gorgeous and moving in its simplicity, it almost seems like it was made by a completely different person (and richard farnsworth's performance feels like a long hug from an old friend). "blue velvet" is a bizarre, fascinating mixture of soap_opera and depravity. and "twin_peaks" is still like nothing else that's ever been on television. he was also just a wonderfully unique human being. this is a guy who once sat on hollywood boulevard with a live cow to try and drum up academy award consideration for laura dern. i love this quote of his: "life is very, very complicated, and films should be allowed to be, too." 250116 ... Jus I looked him up and saw that he died today? So sad. I will absolutely look into his stuff. I adore Laura Dern, you got me there. 250116 ... raze i think he gave her some of the best material she's had to work with. she's scary good in "inland empire". 250116 ... warmthofrelease I know a lot of Lynch fans who don't like Wild_at_Heart but I do. It's one of Willem Dafoe's best performances ever. I will grant that it's not very "Lynchian" in the same sense that Spartacus isn't very "Kubrickey" but maybe that would make it the best starting place, only because Lynch movies can be kind of demanding and it might be better to ease your way into it. I would still say Mullholand is my favorite, my roommates and I are in shambles we've been drinking and toasting, their favorites are Lost Highway and Eraserhead respectively, and naturally they're both huge twin peaks fans. At the end of the day, each of his portraits were wonderfully distinct, he was a master at creating tension between opposites, a real weirdo in the best sense. Rest in peace. 250116 ... epitome of incomprehensibility I'm sorry to hear that. I have strong memories of Inland Empire, though not all strictly related to the film: Master's in English Lit, 2011. We were assigned Inland Empire as part of a surrealism course, though we couldn't see it in class, so one student invited us all over for a viewing party. She had a seemingly more grown-up life than the other students her age, married and living in her own (or 1/2 her own) house. Another student got frustrated that the sound settings couldn't be replicated exactly how Lynch wanted them, so he left early with his girlfriend to see a Muppet movie. *That* felt surreal. He was the one who'd finish assignments early (early? I could barely do half the readings) and then play video games. I remember sounds and rooms and spinning camera work. I don't remember the plot, but I think it was compelling and hypnotic. I think I was in over my head, as I was most of 2011 and 2021. It fit. 250116 ... e_o_i edit: 2011 and *2012. 2021 was bewildering in a different way. 250116 what's it to you? who go blather from