Tag: Blue Velvet
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This Is the Most Unnerving Scene in a David Lynch Movie
Throughout his long and distinctive filmmaking career, David Lynch has offered no shortage of unsettling, frightening, and downright confusing moments. From the reveal of the deformed “baby” in Eraserhead, to the homeless figure jump scare in Mulholland Drive, to just about any time Dennis Hopper appears in Blue Velvet, Lynch has fueled more than a…
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One of David Lynch’s Best Movies Is Also the Most Un-Lynchian Film Possible
On the surface, David Lynch’s underrated 1999 masterpiece The Straight Story couldn’t be further from the director’s typical style and subject matter. However, the road movie tackles many of the same themes and even has much aesthetic similarity to Lynch’s films like Blue Velvet, and especially his TV show Twin Peaks. This may be difficult…
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A New Reissue of David Lynch Collaborator Julee Cruise’s Debut Album ‘Floating Into the Night’ Spotlights Their Special Collaboration
When Julee Cruise died last year on June 9, David Lynch fans lost another of the essential, even inextricable collaborators who became a part of their lives as a result of being part of his art. Her ethereal singing is synonymous with both “Blue Velvet” and the many incarnations of “Twin Peaks,” the latter of…
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Remembering Kenneth Anger, the Greatest Underground Filmmaker Who Ever Lived
Most artists, if they’re lucky, invent one thing. But Kenneth Anger, who was a filmmaker, an author, a debauched aristocratic scenester and, to the day of his death at 96, a figure of puckish mystery, invented several things, each one of them epic.In “Fireworks,” his transcendent 14-minute avant-garde film of 1947, Anger invented the very…
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Angelo Badalamenti Remembered: 10 of His Finest Musical Moments, With and Without David Lynch
When Angelo Badalamenti, composer and renowned collaborator of filmmaker-musician David Lynch, died on Sunday at age 85, he left behind some of the most evocative soundscapes known to cinema. Lustrous orchestration and small combo jazz sounds for Lynch works such as “Blue Velvet” and “Twin Peaks” tweaked the senses while underscoring the grotesquerie below the…
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Kyle MacLachlan: Even I ‘Don’t Pretend to Understand What David Lynch Does’
Even after nearly 40 years of filmmaking, David Lynch remains one of cinema’s most enigmatic artists. While the meaning behind films like “Mulholland Drive” and “Inland Empire” might be a mystery, Lynch’s work continues to captivate cinephiles. Including, apparently, some of his closest collaborators.In a new interview with The A.V. Club, Kyle MacLachlan, who Lynch…
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‘Don’t Worry Darling’ Trailer: Florence Pugh Is Ready To Live The Life She Deserves In Olivia Wilde’s New Thriller
This may come as a surprise to some people, but the pearly gates and well-kept lawns of ideal suburban America? Nothing is ever as pleasant as it seems. Truly a shocker, we know. Of course, the disruption of romanticized American lives has spawned countless notable films, such as “Blue Velvet” by David Lynch or “The…
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Editor Duwayne Dunham on Collaborating with David Lynch on Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart and Twin Peaks
Five years after the Music Box Theatre’s previous David Lynch retrospective coincided with the television premiere of the highly anticipated Twin Peaks: The Return, the Chicago-based arthouse now presents David Lynch: A Complete Retrospective – The Return, a week-long celebration of Lynch’s work that also pays tribute to his many collaborators, friends and, in one…
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David Lynch Joins the Cast of Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Fabelmans’ in Secret Role
Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama “The Fabelmans” just got a new twist in its casting. Variety reports that Oscar-winning “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” filmmaker David Lynch has joined the cast of the ensemble drama in a top-secret, closely guarded role. Lynch is no stranger to being in front of the camera, as he has…
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Dean Stockwell, Actor in ‘Married to the Mob’ and ‘Quantum Leap,’ Dies at 85
Dean Stockwell, whose eclectic seven-decade career included the leading role in The Boy With Green Hair, an Oscar nomination for Married to the Mob and a starring turn on Quantum Leap, has died. He was 85.Stockwell died Sunday, agent Jay Schwartz told The Hollywood Reporter.Signed to an MGM contract shortly after he made his Broadway…