Tag: Lynch
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‘It was buy eggs or put money on my travel card’: actor Lashana Lynch on Bond, Bob Marley and being broke
She shot to fame as the first female 007 and is now tackling reggae royalty as Marley’s wife, Rita. But the actor hasn’t always had it easy in an industry hostile to people without a safety netLashana Lynch is cocooned in a full-length padded coat and beanie, looking inconspicuous as a friend checks her into…
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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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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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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…
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‘Harry Potter’ Star Evanna Lynch to Headline ‘Influenced!’ Inspired by Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ – Global Bulletin
CastingEvanna Lynch, the actor best known for portraying Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter franchise, will star in “Influenced!,” a black comedy set in the world of social media influencers that has been inspired by Oscar Wilde’s classic 1891 novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray.” Lynch will play Dora, a makeup sales assistant who goes…
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David Lynch Once Made a Cartoon and It’s Weird as Hell
In David Lynch’s long, illustrious, and eccentric filmmaking career, he has only experimented with animation on a handful of occasions. He used the mode in a couple of his short films as well as in some of the most bizarre or creepiest moments in Twin Peaks and Inland Empire. However, his most straightforward and extended…
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This ’60s Neo-Noir Inspired David Lynch, From ‘Twin Peaks’ to ‘Blue Velvet’
David Lynch has one of the most unmistakable stylistic fingerprints in modern cinema, with his influence being prevalent enough to warrant the word “Lynchian” in the Oxford English Dictionary. Still, as original as Lynch and his films are, they draw from a certain pool of inspirations — his noir-tinged worlds of insidious criminals hiding in…
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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…