Tag: David Lynch
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‘Eraserhead’ and the Inner Workings of a Lynchian Nightmare
David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature Eraserhead is a Frankenstein’s monster of Kafkaesque surrealism, a trauma-inducing interrogation of parental fears and a disturbing depiction of fatherhood. Eraserhead is the nightmarish result of a visionary and obsessive filmmaker. Eraserhead debuted at The Filmex Film Festival without any significant promotion for the film, leaving crowds of moviegoers stunned…
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Return to ‘Twin Peaks’ in These 1993 Coffee Commercials by David Lynch
It’s been six years since Twin Peaks: The Return was released and left us all speechless with its shocking outcome, and we haven’t gotten a chance to go back to Twin Peaks ever since. Luckily, there’s plenty that can be done for those who still feel nostalgic for it, from enjoying shows that were either…
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David Fincher Could’ve Made Blade In The ’90s, But He Made Another Classic Instead
Oh, the annals of movies that were made by one guy who is kind of cool that were almost made by another guy who is way cooler. Did you know John Frankenheimer almost directed “Breakfast at Tiffany’s?” That would have been … intense. What about the fact that Danny Boyle almost directed Joss Whedon’s script for “Alien: Resurrection?”…
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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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Gregg Araki Cites the ‘Visionary Insanity’ of ‘Twin Peaks’ as His Biggest Filmmaking Inspiration
From its inception as a primetime soap opera that captivated America with a groundbreaking serialized format to its return as a misunderstood (and subsequently reappraised) movie to its epic coda in the form of one of the most acclaimed limited series of all time, the legacy of “Twin Peaks” has only grown over the past…
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Cannes Rejected Bertrand Bonello’s ‘The Beast’ — It’s Now Venice’s Boldest Movie
Fans of David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks: The Return” and its mystical journey through hell and horror that ends with a scream, charged by Tulpas and body-swapping and timelines that swallow each other up, might find their itch for the uncanny scratched by Bertrand Bonello’s “The Beast.”It’s the most formally daring, willing-to-alienate of any films to…
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The David Lynch Film That Even the Stars Don’t Know What It’s About
After a successful breakthrough with Mulholland Drive, director David Lynch appeared to find a way to communicate his avant-garde approach to a mainstream audience. This all came crashing down when everything jumped up a notch with his next and most recent film, Inland Empire. Taking the non-linear stye to new heights (or lows), it was…