An interesting director and story maker. The first I ever encountered his work was "Eraserhead", one of the oddest, strangest movie I ever watched.

Wow. This is how I find out. This @#$%& sucks ass.

David Lynch, Auteur Drawn to the Dark and the Dreamlike, Dies at 78

With such hallucinogenic masterworks as 'Eraserhead,' 'Blue Velvet,' 'Mulholland Drive,' 'Twin Peaks' and 'The Elephant Man,' he often left more questions than answers.

By Stephen Galloway
Jan. 16, 2025

[www.hollywoodreporter.com]

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RIP.

RIP

That's terrible news. I really liked his work. I suppose he was a very interesting person. Best wishes to his family and friends.

RIP

Sad news ...

Only recently saw him in The Fabelmans
playing the part of thee great John Ford ....


Rest In Peace
Safe Journey



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An interesting director and story maker. The first I ever encountered his work was "Eraserhead", one of the oddest, strangest movie I ever watched.

He was also an outstanding musician

Gutted by this news. RIP David

Truly a classic.
RIP

Lynch recorded a couple of
tracks with Lee "Scratch" Perry .....

A strange marriage but thee results are spaced out cool ....



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David Lynch playing the part of John Ford in The Fablemans



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David Lynch playing the part of John Ford in The Fablemans

He should have gotten a best supporting actor Oscar for this performance, IMHO.

Yes crholmstrom ....he played it well ....



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Mel Brooks called David Lynch ----- "Jimmy Stewart from Mars." ....



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Another admirer of his work here. Saw most if not all of his films. So idiosyncratic yet so fascinating.

Around the release of Inland Empire (2006), his last feature-length film, Lynch took a Japanese interview.
“What do you make of an audience who responds, ‘I don’t understand this very much but I love it’?”
His answer was, “That’s the best audience!”
And he went on, “See, they understand much more than they think they do.”

It has left a lingering message in me when it comes to the appreciation of artwork, movies, music, paintings, literature, whatever.

RIP Mr. Visionary

What a great loss, I loved his films and the TV series Twin Peaks, David Lynch's largest Exhibition was at the Bonnefanten Museum in Maasstricht in 2018 in the Netherlands called: 'Someone is in my House' with over 500 works of art, films, paintings, drawings and others, David Lynch was a true artist until the end.

RIP David Lynch

A rather dark character, I´d say.

This documentary explores the influence of The Wizard of Oz on Lynch:








Before he played John Ford, he had a similar part in an episode of Louie:





Since the 70's when Eraserhead was a weekly midnight movie at the Nuart in L.A., being in the audience when a David Lynch film was on the screen was like participating in a collective dream. He was his own genre, with a style that shone through even in The Straight Story, a deliberate G-rated film that defied his audience's expectations. He was a true visionary and a great artist. RIP

very sad news

love his love of music and sound

light through darkness

rip in dreams

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Another admirer of his work here. Saw most if not all of his films. So idiosyncratic yet so fascinating.

Around the release of Inland Empire (2006), his last feature-length film, Lynch took a Japanese interview.
“What do you make of an audience who responds, ‘I don’t understand this very much but I love it’?”
His answer was, “That’s the best audience!”
And he went on, “See, they understand much more than they think they do.”

It has left a lingering message in me when it comes to the appreciation of artwork, movies, music, paintings, literature, whatever.

RIP Mr. Visionary

Mulholland Drive is one of the best movies I've ever seen. You have to work like mad to even get close to figuring it out, but it does have discernable meanings to it.

Inland Empire, in contrast, I have little idea what he was saying in that one.

Edit: Angelo Badalamenti's theme music for Twin Peaks is I believe my favorite theme music ever. Then add in Julee Cruise in the soundtrack, and wow. So ethereal, gorgeous, and haunting. It's music that sticks with you.



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Mulholland Drive is one of the best movies I've ever seen. You have to work like mad to even get close to figuring it out, but it does have discernable meanings to it.

+1 It's an endlessly fascinating and beautiful film.

RIP, Mr Lynch.

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An interesting director and story maker. The first I ever encountered his work was "Eraserhead", one of the oddest, strangest movie I ever watched.

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Had to put it on last night, hadn't seen it since I was a teenager watching it at a theater.

It scared the dog and I got some odd looks from my wife and her friend who walked in midway through.

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An interesting director and story maker. The first I ever encountered his work was "Eraserhead", one of the oddest, strangest movie I ever watched.

He was also an outstanding musician

In 2023 Lynch and others who collab'ed with Mark Linkous aka Sparklehorse on Linkous' album Dark Night of the Soul, and worked on a new posthumous Sparklehorse album, talk about it.
[thequietus.com]

Sparklehorse did beautiful dreamy melancholy music in song form that can sound suitable for parts of a Lynch movie, so Lynch connecting with him was no surprise. I very much like the first 3 or 4 Sparklehorse albums. Linkhous would work often nearly in isolation, and in his various rural home settings. For a few years it was Goochland County just west of Richmond; he'd come in to use a studio now and then. Then he moved to rural NC. Maybe TN too... I forget where all. Ultimately shot himself. Linkhous' Lynch collab isn't my favorite Sparklehorse album; I haven't heard the new posthumous one.

Soundscape. Lynch put special, striking soundscapes in his movies. You might not find a more ominous yet still fascinating soundscape in a movie than that in his debut, Eraserhead. Sparklehorse's best albums aren't ominous, though. Anyway, I recommend giving a listen to this guy Lynch admired a lot.

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I'm down in Virginia
with your Cousin Lou



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An interesting director and story maker. The first I ever encountered his work was "Eraserhead", one of the oddest, strangest movie I ever watched.

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Had to put it on last night, hadn't seen it since I was a teenager watching it at a theater.

It scared the dog and I got some odd looks from my wife and her friend who walked in midway through.

I'd keep that dog

I'm leery of rewatching Eraserhead myself. If ever in that situation, though, of being given the side-eye by passers-through during the most bizarre stuff, I think the best I might come up with is, "It's about fear of fatherhood." Which, it is.

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Mulholland Drive is one of the best movies I've ever seen. You have to work like mad to even get close to figuring it out, but it does have discernable meanings to it.

+1 It's an endlessly fascinating and beautiful film.

RIP, Mr Lynch.

Drew

I became a hard core Chappell Roan fan in 2024. She had a very hard time for years in LA as a rural flyover country girl struggling to chase her dreams in Hollywood. In a song in her brilliant debut album one line is, "let's make it cinematic like that one sex scene in Mulholland Drive." She recognizes her life in that protagonist's struggle, and changed herself from a softspoken introverted girl who was failing badly, into a much bigger than life, audacious alter ego who was very different but who could succeed. The way Lynch presents the attempt at such a manifestation in Mulholland Drive is genius. Most of Chappell's audience doesn't have any idea of the parallel she's drawing in that lyric... she's way ahead of them. But that's okay. I greatly appreciate her keen appreciation of what might be my favorite movie.

Very sad news. I liked his work.. RIP David.

David Lynch - The Ballad of Hollis Brown - RIP

video: [youtu.be]

I'm rewatching Twin Peaks-The Return. It really seems like it's the culmination of his life's work. He uses all his styles from all his films and mixes it up brilliantly. Even though we may not know exactly what's going on a lot of the time, it's a great ride.

I know there's been complaints that some scenes go on way to long and have no relevance to the 'plot', where basically 'nothing' is happening and it comes off as indulgent and long-winded, but I see those scenes as meditative paintings, where you're just absorbing the moment and the mood, and they tend to reveal a deeper psychological layer that often borders on the absurd.

Not surprising, as Lynch was very into meditation, painting, and the theatre of the absurd. He loved to peel back the layers and put them under a microscope, often much to our fascination and discomfort.