I think I'd go with The Elephant Mn or Blue Velvet. Can't remember if I've seen Lost Highway but I'll try to track it down. I've never seen Eraserhead but I remember in high school that my friends would get stoned and watch it.Originally Posted by Hal...
What can this strange device be? When I touch it, it brings forth a sound (2112)
Watched Monkey Man (2024, Dev Patel) on dvd. All you need to know, from imdb: "An anonymous young man unleashes a campaign of vengeance against the corrupt leaders who murdered his mother and continue to systematically victimize the poor and powerless." Very good action flick.
12/19/24: I forgot to mention Monkey Man features an appearance and tabla playing by the late maestro Zakir Hussain. Monkey Man does not feature the Rolling Stones song "Monkey Man."
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Yeah. Pretty awesome revenge/action flick.
Both are great movies, but they're conventional compared with Eraserhead, Lost Highway, Mulholland Dr, and Inland Empire.
The first time I saw it I was tripping. Boy, was that a mistake!I've never seen Eraserhead but I remember in high school that my friends would get stoned and watch it.
Of the four, Eraserhead is the most surreal. But I also think it's the most accessible of those four.
As for Lost Highway, the best way to describe it is Blue Velvet meets Mulholland Dr. It's pretty straight forward like BV (and malevolent like BV), but then has a twist, à la MD, that makes you think, "WTF just happened?!" And then it's pretty much straight forward, again. Except it's not, really. Especially considering Patricia Arquette plays two different roles (or are they?) and Robert Blake plays the most enigmatic character in the history of cinema.
I seem to recall a reviewer likening the narrative to a Möbius strip, and I think that's a very apt description.
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“The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the white zone."
Read the Wikipedia about it as it explains much about it and I found it helpful. Then a lot of what the movie is about starts to gel a bit more. Generally I don't care for films where it's abstract/ambigious/nebulous. I don't think the audience should have to go somewhere for an explaination on what they just saw--I think that's the director's goal to create a story that makes sense. I can give Lynch a pass as I think he does have an artist or creative talent with something to say. But it seems more directors have gone this direction, and I find it a bit of sham.
As far as Lynch, I've enjoy most of them with the exeption of Inland Empire, which I've not fully watched all the way thru. I also liked Wild at Heart, which was fairly straightforward and The Straight Story, which may be his most accessible.
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What can this strange device be? When I touch it, it brings forth a sound (2112)
I agree, that was a dumb list. They must have pulled it outta some guy's ass sleeping on a part bench somewthere. I agree with Hal: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is a good one, and Hannah and Her Sisters is too. But although it's a great film, I don't know how a mixed audience might view Allen these days, I still respect his work, however.
If it helps, think of Lynch flicks, esp. the more obscure ones, as "Dreams." I love most of them (Eraserhead was a "Watched it once, never again" experience though....) but they do not have linear, logical plots...they are more like dreamscapes, or dream narratives......
"And this is the chorus.....or perhaps it's a bridge...."
Exactly. Lynch is, first and foremost, an artist, a filmmaker second. In fact, he went to art school to become a painter. Many years ago, I read an article about him. The author talked about how Lynch was painting and a moth flew into the canvas and got stuck in the paint. Lynch looked at it for a moment and then decided he liked it and left it there.
He's a very unique guy who was an Eagle Scout, started smoking when he was 8, but then quit two years ago after he developed emphysema. He'd been smoking for 68 years!
“The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the white zone."
Lynch movies movies are so fun to look at and listen to, but I couldn't explain the plot of one of them
"Who would have thought a whale would be so heavy?" - Moe Sizlak
Wild at Heart and Blue Velvet for me. So much great weirdness.
Which reminds me of this awesome DL interview:
"That gum you like is going to come back in style."
^^
David Lynch films I have seen:
blue velvet
dune
elephant man
inland empire
lost highway
mulholland drive
the straight story
wild at heart
i don't remember if i've seen eraserhead
wild at heart is probably my favorite, but I don't dislike any of them.
I've seen all but Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.
I consider myself a big fan of Lynch, but his only movies I'll ever watch again are Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, The Straight Story, and Lost Highway.
I never saw TP:FWWM because of the negative reactions from friends and the negative press. But after reading about its legacy, I think I was hasty in deciding not to see it. I found it available on Max and added it to my watch list, especially after reading this on Wikipedia:
Mary Sweeney, the film's editor, said, "they so badly wanted it to be like the TV show, and it wasn't. It was a David Lynch feature. And people were very angry about it. They felt betrayed."
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According to [the film's] cinematographer Ron Garcia, the film was popular in Japan, in particular with women. As Martha Nochimson wrote in her book on Lynch's work, "he surmises that the enthusiasm of the Japanese women comes from a gratification of seeing in Laura some acknowledgment of their suffering in a repressive society." Released under the title Twin Peaks: The Last Seven Days of Laura Palmer, it was greeted with long lines of moviegoers at theaters.
That piqued my interest.
“The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the white zone."
I didn't watch any Twin Peaks movies because I missed seeing the Twin Peaks TV show. There have been times in my life when TV was not available because of where I lived, and other times when I ignored TV because I wanted to concentrate on college, foolishly believing what we were told, that a good education and good grades and honest hard work were the key to a good job. Still other times when TV just bored the crap out of me. Anyway, I thought watching the TV series Twin Peaks was a prerequisite for watching the movie(s). I do enjoy Lynch's filmmaking, though. Now I'm ready to give up on TV again. You can guess why. Reality is weirder than a David Lynch movie.
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