David Lynch Favorites Movies and FilmMakers

[69beeker]

Here's an interesting Trivia Fact: David Lynch & Federico Fellini share the same Birthday, January 20th. Happy Birthday Mr. Lynch, R.I.P. Mr. Fellini . . . 2 of the Greatest Film Directors.

[conewells]

Not the most articulate guy in the world, but I LOVE his movies. (and why isn't Elephant Man on fucking Netflix??)

[kaberis7]

david lynch favourite actor is chuck norris....

[MaLore012]

LYNCH E' UN FIGO

[MattiSalman]

This man is a psychooooo

[Muskateering]

Stanley Kubrick even said his favorite film was Eraserhead.

[21h040349160]

I'm in love with his hair

[TheDWR2011]

It would be funny if he mentioned some really shitty movies

[DistantJ]

Lynch watching Kubrick... I imagine it'd look a lot like the girl in Inland Empire.

[FetaCheese222]

Huh, I was kinda expecting Lynch to have more insane and obscure favourite movies and filmmakers that no-one has every heard of before. But nope. Kubrick, Fellini, Hitchcock, all the friendly familiar guys!

[666moviefreak]

Can you delete the comments?

[666moviefreak]

Sorry wrong video :D

[666moviefreak]

You are fucking asshole,you don't know nothing about cinema!

Kubrick is a genius

[r0b0hobo]

Vertigo is so much better than Rear Window. Lynch probably likes RW more because it's about a guy in a wheel chair that just watches people. Similar to Blue Velvet in some ways. 

[imaginaryboy238]

Rear Window - My favorite Hitchcock flick. Does that mean I'm a genius too?

[HungerCultFilms]

Kubrick and Lynch - does it get any fucken' better?

[yumyum97]

@HungerCultFilms I would add cronenberg ^^

[abennett4]

Yea! W.C. Fields' 'It's A Gift.' By far, his greatest. Also, 'Rear Window' has to be one of Hitchock's best (after 'Vertigo' and 'North by Northwest', of course!)

[Sealyfaya]

He's so cute!

[Ichiboy900]

I love how Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch love each other.

[SethHesio]

@Ichiboy900 Didn't Stanley Kubrick show Eraserhead to the cast of The Shining while on set? :D

[mauryelhombremono]

@SethHesio yep

[SethHesio]

@mauryelhombremono Thanks for the confirmation lol :)

[STKTimeParadox]

Stanley Kubrick said one of his favorite films was Eraserhead.

[antiirony]

what if one day David Lynch pulled off his mask and he was revealed to be Jesus?

[RWSThe101]

At the end he looks like he's thinking "Did I stash that body in a good spot? Yeahhh I'll be fine."

[1ASMA3]

"I love Stanley Kubrick." -- Couldn't have started off any better.

[saqibk1]

Understand why he likes Kubrick movies, and Kubrick saw Eraserhead as one of his favorites movies.

[WeLiveToDanceAlone]

@saqibk1 great minds think alike.

[PeterRoeder31]

Fellini sucks so bad. 

[PeterRoeder31]

Lol, I like Hitchcock particularly Rear Window (but not Vertigo and Psycho?????) WTF!!!!!!!!!

[cyrus138]

gee, i wonder why he failed to mention bunuel...

[Misri83]

The world's top 40 Directors by the UK Guardian. Lynch ranks number 1.

They describe him as "the most important film maker of the current era."

[Misri83]

Stanley Kubrick and Fellini could only wish they were 1/10th as good as Lynch.

My two cents.

[Squibfire]

@Misri83 though i LOVE David Lynch i dont think hes quite as good as Kubrick (though it doesnt seem right to say one film maker isnt as "good" as another) Blue Velvet is one of my all time favorite movies (along with Wild At Heart) but i dont think either can really compare to movies like The Shining or A Clockwork Orange, just MY two cents lol

[Misri83]

@Squibfire

Btw, David Lynch was Stanley Kubrick's number favorite director for a reason. A Clock Work Orange was overrated and is dated, about a flamboyant gang that rapes a girl at the end, more shock value than anything. The Shining........good movie, but you can clearly see it was heavily influenced by Eraserhead, which is a faaaaar superior film, artistically and horror wise too.

[Squibfire]

@Misri83 im curious, have you ever seen A Clockwork Orange? though there are areas of it meant for shock value, it is in that shock value and the political and social commentaries within them that the movie shows its true genius, on its surface it is a very entertaining and insightful movie but once you delve deeper into the themes and ideas Kubrick extracted from Burgess' novel you see its real beauty.

[Squibfire]

@Misri83 and as far as The Shining and Eraserhead are concerned i dont see the correlation at all, though Eraserhead was one of the finest works of surrealism in cinema history that doesnt denote that The Shining's experimentation with Surrealism was at all influenced by it, and i personally think The Shining is a superior film touching on more than just surrealism and experimentation in filmaking

[Misri83]

@Squibfire

Why is it that people label experimental as not authentic? Oh yeah, because it's not mainstream.

You can clearly see the spacial and sound elements were highly "borrowed" from Eraserhead, after all, that was Kubrick's favorite film.... I wouldn't consider Eraserhead a total surrealist film. It has a very very linear story told through abstraction and distortion....that's not really surrealism.

And I would also argue Eraserhead is much more revolutionary than say any Kubrick film.

[Squibfire]

@Misri83 i dont recall ever saying experimental was not authentic, scratch that i just went back and re read what i wrote and i KNOW thats not what i said, if i had a problem with experimental filmmaking, why would i be on a David Lynch video at all? many non mainstream films (such as early Kubrick and Waters, as well as films by Kenneth Anger) are very impressive and should not be deemed lesser than mainstream films at all

[Squibfire]

@Misri83 and i wasnt saying Eraserhead is surrealist in a bad way, i think its a brilliant film and is impressively told, though it IS highly experimental and is quite obviously surrealistic (i dont know why you would take that as a slight, look at Dali's surrealism) and i would argue that many of Kubrick's films such as 2001 and A Clockwork Orange are far more revolutionary than Eraserhead, Eraserhead is an amazing film but i dont think it was a groundbreaking achievement or Lynch's best film

[Misri83]

@Squibfire Obviously you have your opinion and I have mine and I don't think either of us will convince the other otherways as to who is a better director. All I am going to say is David Lynch has achieved so much and he hasn't even made that many films. I get annoyed at the fact that he has been nominated 4 times for best director at the Academy Awards and he hasn't won yet, and many much much much less directors than him have received the award. Lynch is under-appreciated except by fans.

[Squibfire]

@Misri83 i agree, i think its good for people to share their opinions on matters like this and even argue a bit as long as it never gets too hostile, and it also upsets me that Lynch has yet to garner any major achievements, i believe hes one of those film makers who will never be truly appreciated until long after he is gone

[dullath]

@Squibfire EXACTLY!! lynch couldn't care less 'what' is said of his art. it's that something 'is' said. it has shaken, stirred and mixed brain chemicals in the viewer's brain. it has poured an intoxicating drink of desire to discuss f e e l i n g s. people that say lynch is an idiot fail to see that THEY, in point of fact, validate his success with their very own discussion. indifference would be silence and that would be failure. love and hate are emotions.. indifference - not so much.

[poopamultimatepoopy]

@Misri83 2001 has the most detail, symbolism, tension, revolutionary effects, amazingly shot, every single scene is done for a reason. if you prefer abstract then go for eraserhead, btw hehe, im 13, and people say im smart for a 13 year old to understand these movies lol

[Misri83]

@poopamultimatepoopy I suggest you watch Eraserhead again because every scene was also done for a reason and more economically executed than Kubrick's work. No fluff, all substance in other words. Most people's first impression of Lynch's films that things are done randomly, hence being surrealistic, which is totally not the case, in fact every Lynch film has a very linear story and purpose, he just doesn't express it in a literal, linear way.

[poopamultimatepoopy]

@Misri83 Since when was kubrick linear? 2001 always had multiple interpretations for its symbolism.

[dullath]

@poopamultimatepoopy hmmm.. where the 14+ year old brain has shields that get stronger every day, the 13 year old brain has tractor beams that capture and digest information. you have less rubbish taking up space and influencing your cognition. i hope you keep a written copy of your present thoughts on eraserhead so that when you're 30, you can watch it again and compare notes. btw- comparing kubrick and lynch? why? there are already plenty of owls filled with coffee and donuts. heh heh

[poopamultimatepoopy]

@dullath This may sound weird but for the past little while since I have been 14 im getting dumber at understanding these movies, GAH its so annoying. You are actually right, its getting harder to understand these movies

[zee339]

Rear window? we know what THAT means!! (nudge nudge)

[Chutultu]

I would have loved to have him as an uncle!

[zigifrojd]

He have good taste in films, similar to mine. My personal favourites are Bergman, Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Tarkovsky, Eisenstein, Fellini, Kieslowski, Lynch, Cocteau, Godard, Renoir, Lang, Desica, Visconti, Bunuel, Wilder, Chaplin, Capra, Polanski, Leone........ and I would say like he says my best among many others.

[squeak63]

@zigifrojd Ah yes Tartovsky very good I've only seen Stalker, unusual at first but grew later.

[zigifrojd]

@squeak63 Very glad I read this, I recommend see Andrey Rublov, Solyaris, Zerkalo, Ivanovo Detstvo, too much philoshophy in Stalker to grasp after 1 seing, I am proud to say I understand most important points and stories in Stalker, but I watched it 10,11 times, when you watched it more and more you grasp new things on already known things from previous film watch, see especially Andrey Rublov, Rublov is Tarkovsky's best film after is Solyaris and Stalker by my opinion.

[Pwells1]

All way way better than Lynch.

[iTubeYourDadsMinge]

@Pwells1

How the fuck is that comment relevant to anything?

[Pwells1]

@iTubeYourDadsMinge Everyone Lynch mentioned is way way better than he is. How isn't my comment relevant?

[TheHoleBag]

i would think that Ingmar Bergman would be one of his favorite filmmakers.

[tsartodd]

@TheHoleBag Ingmar Bergman is one of his favorites -- i've read Lynch say so in an interview. he might have just forgotten to mention it here.

[KleWdSide]

Kubrick? Shocker. 

[JiffySpook]

It completely makes sense that Lynch likes 'Sunset Boulevard'. I wish i could watch it with him over eight pots of Coffee.

[dullath]

@JiffySpook and cigarettes!

[MrBlizZardWizZard]

lynch is a cool guy!

[MrZkinandBonez]

It´s kinda cool when you whatch a video of one of your favourite directors naming two other of your favourite directors as his own favourite directors. I love Lynch films, Hitchcock films, and especially Kubrick films.

Also I recently found out that Kubrick also loved Lynchs Eraserhead. He named it as one of his all time favourite films, and actually showed it to Jack Nicholsen and Shelley Duvall during the pre-production of The Shining to show what mood he wanted for the film.

[TheAgwoodliffe]

Kubrick was an influence? Wow, imagine how it must feel when one of your favourite directors claims YOUR movie as his favourite.

[gnoblais]

of course he loves kubrick :)

[aaaaaaaaaajgvgjyc]

Eraserhead was Kubrick's favorite film for a while. It motivated him to make The Shining.

[AleMayaOM]

@aaaaaaaaaajgvgjyc REALLY?! :O good to know

[Jcolinsol]

Well shit, Lynch has some good taste in movies and directors.

[ALLNAMESAREALLREADYT]

could'nt agree more with him ... I'd add only Charles Chaplin

[dokson6]

interesting that he mentions rear window what with the voyeuristic themes of blue velvet. david lynch is so awesome that I feel a need to give transcendental meditation a chance

[alcazartin]

The red plastic pipes that appear briefly in Mulholland Drive and Wild at Heart are a reference to the pipes manufactured in Mon Oncle. Lynch is on record as saying the reference is intentional (my copy of Mon Oncle has a quote on the back saying as much anyway).

[BubbleStinkBoy]

Imagine this guy directing Inception.....I know I can't.

[GilbertSmith]

I love how he answers questions. He doesn't have these programmed responses where most of us will just list five or six favorite movies, he has to stop and think about every one as if he's never considered it before.

[Bassbait]

He said the exact same thing I would say when people ask me what filmmakers I like:

"I love Stanley Kubrick"

[51yourtimeisup]

Stanley Kubrick's two favourite films were Eraserhead and the Godfather.

[Vidhole]

i always imagine his voice to be kinda deep and mysterious

[proceedapathy]

KUBRICK.

[geridg]

great taste......W.C. Fields was the man. So funny.

[wonderfulwomp]

I think that last statement single-handedly proves that no one else could have made Eraserhead :L

[subvercinema]

I like a lot of filmmakers, and you Mr. Lynch... are one of them.

[khukhem1001]

I love you Lynch!

[j009aguar13]

i think that the only great movies of the last 10 years were No Country for Old Men and Mulholland Dr.

[SpeakToMe19]

@j009aguar13 There Will Be Blood. Zodiac.

[j009aguar13]

@SpeakToMe19 I also loved Zodiac. too bad it did so poorly. There Will Be Blood is hard for me, because while it seemed like a monumental film, I still felt like there was something lacking in it. Maybe a second viewing would help me?

[cbrooks83]

@SpeakToMe19 Zodiac was not one of the best of the decade. It wasn't even one of Fincher's best films.

[1147productions]

@cbrooks83 Zodiac was a great film, and easily his most accomplished. Too many people run to Seven and Fight Club and call them Fincher's best. But Zodiac took all the skills he had already honed and placed them all in one film, it could have been 5 hours long and I would have been on the edge of my seat. But, that's my opinion at least? What's Fincher's best in your mind?

[mariano26788]

@1147productions i agree... i think is the best Fincher's movie

[beneaththeroses]

@1147productions yeah - i love Zodiac , easily his best

[Tigerlily21]

Anyone else think David Lynch seems like a really sweet man?

[wandererlain]

@Tigerlily21

He makes films with dark and perverse subject matter but in life, he seems a real nice guy. A real genius.

[JeanCocteau777]

@Tigerlily21

Yeah.

[doomed2obscurity]

It's so weird to imagine david lynch watching sunset boulevard. 

[agwoodliffe]

I don't think that any 'genre' or 'label' exists to describe David Lynch's work. That's why it's so inspirational!

[weglarz]

I wish I could like Hitchcock. I love every other director he mentioned, except for hitchcock.

[Convoicev2]

David Lynch is just...

There is no adjective to describe him. The closest thing would be to call David Lynch David Lynch.

[cholocharile]

Hitchcock should've seen Eraserhead, he would have loved it.

[melvindada]

These are all great films that Lynch recommends and there are thousands more!

please see the new criterion DVD release of Billy Wilder's-Ace in the Hole starring Kirk Douglas and watch the interview with Wilder as well. You'll all dig Ace in the Hole as it goes a long way describing the role and driving energy of media in our society and the individuals who inhabit it.

[Immerseyourselfish]

Very delighting.

[ButterfliesTheMovie]

this is very very cool..thank u 4 this video

[papempo]

I like your movies!

Keep up the good work!

[jamestaane]

I love rear window also, I was watching it again just the other day thinking how the wheelchair scene - when james stewart is flashing the camera flash at salesman - that scene really feels like a lynch scene..

[BROKENHOUSEFILMS]

its funny that he likes Stanley Kubrick

Eraserhead is Stanley Kubrick favorite film, he said

[townsjim]

We need more david lynch stuff on youtube. If anyone has any different material upload it now!!

[immutabledude]

Jacques Tati is amazing! He is a wonderful choice!

[PhillipThunderGrunge]

I thought of space odyssey when i barely started this....I haven't even seen this before....

[JeffFries]

"I like a lot of filmmakers, but those are... some of them"

[blakohli8ios]

@JeffFries He says it as if he just realised it! :P

[LithiumManium1]

Can someone PLEASE explain Eraserhead to me

[ArthurEricBlair]

my interpretation is this; henry has sex with a woman and she has a baby that is *very* premature, this baby is hedious and it slowly takes over his life, ruining things for him -like sex with the lady across the hall- the lady in the radiator sings that "in heaven everything is fine" so he should kill the baby, he backs away from the idea but then he has a dream that his head falls off, and thats it, ya know? hah, so he kills the baby.

[noibn2]

Here are a few things I've picked up. The workman represents God.The worms represent sin, possibly sexual sin. Whenever Henry stares at the radiator he contemplates suicide, the pale woman living in the radiator is death. The baby is not an actual baby but rather the personification of what pluages Henry, maybe guilt, illness or disorder. When he kills the baby he is actually commiting suicide, the only way to escape his "illness".

[TheSZimmer]

No. I'm sorry.

[morris4505]

haha

[GunsReviews]

Really???

Hmm i will have to read that book(:

Stanley Kubrick even once said Eraserhead was one of his faves

[AClockworksOranges]

Kubrick made the cast of the The Shining watch Eraserhead (as well as The Exorcist) to get them into the right frame of mind.

[GunsReviews]

Yes i can tell he is a Kubrick fan!

[Svankmajer]

Fun thing is that in the Lynch On Lynch book he says he's not that into either Kubrick or Fellini. He must have been getting into them later.

[stanfordbooth]

That's completely wrong, your memory is mistaken.

He expresses great admiration for both of them in that book. I distinctly remember him saying that if you took away Fellini's films there would be a big chunk of cinema missing.

[pittedthighs]

he say he got a poopy in his hiney

[YouDickwod]

lol

[luxvoix]

lynch is brilliant! i would pay to see what images popped into his head while he was recalling the films and directors he likes.

"but those are..(your favorites? the ones that have influenced you the most? the greatest ones?) ...some of them"

and it's strange the word idea wasn't mentioned.

[Reindrich]

No Taxi Driver?

[jovialduke]

I see very little scorcese in any of Lynch's work. they are almost opposites to me.

[Amebixfan]

Yeah, Scorsese is very forward with what he means in his films, Lynch isn't

[Samson1091]

I wonder if he's heard of Misumi Kenji.

[thepennymachine]

Didn't he like Meshes of the afternoon?

[rockorsario]

You think he like Tarkovsky too?

[yohei72]

Most of the ones he mentions aren't at all surprising. You can easily see pieces of Hitchcock, Fellini and Kubrick in his style, pacing and themes. His sense of deadpan, alienated comedy could be Tati-influenced. His L.A.-set movies since "Lost Highway" are deranged cousins to "Sunset Boulevard", with their sense of death and decay under the glittery, sun-drenched facade; Norma Desmond looks and sounds like a Lynch character.

[tomandshow]

bestofthebest, the fact that that you got your name from a shit film series says a lot more than any insult i could think of... so ill just say, youre a fucking shaved ape!

[chrisdunst13]

Surprised he didn't mention Jean-Luc Godard.

[dyagnylproductions]

wow a famous director knows his stuff on movies! the fact that your supprised and impressed at his name dropping shows that your just a pretensious dick who just loves to name drop french names. Great job dick. Your not the only one whos seen a french movie SuperMontsy.

[touchogrey]

hahahahah

[Saohesc]

There are some very ignorant people in high positions of all types, sir. I don't know those directors, but I am enthused to see this as well as SuperMontsy.

[isobel1982]

He forgot to mention Ingmar Bergman :-)

[SjShane]

He forgot to add David Lynch to his list. (Joke)

[2kool4skewl77]

He loves Sunset Boulevard too!

<3<3<3

[detroiterness]

He reminds me of James Stewart. Rear Window, huh?

[LisaNova]

I love David Lynch.

- Lisa

[csw2342]

I dont think you can say that Lynchs films are random. They are just full of ideas and artistic shots which do not conventionally follow a narrative structure. They are not random as everything he puts together and shoots has some relevance to what he is trying to portray. We may see it as random but only because we dont fully understand it.

[KRAFTWERK2K6]

wow. He named actually a lot of my favorites too. Like Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock. I'm pretty sure that he likes David Cronnenberg aswell.

[hungh0rse]

what a great appearance - his hair's like a friendly monster !

[navesele]

He is a friendly monster.

[JacksInn]

We need to stop torturing creative people with the word "genius".

[Minnii333]

i agree.. but david lynch IS a genius.

[JacksInn]

What I meant is that I think calling an artist a "genius" is just laziness. People are using the word so often that it starts to lose meaning. The effect is gone. "You are a genius." - "Oh well, thanks." End of discussion.

Let's not talk about a film, just say it's genius work and stop right there.

I just think it's a much bigger compliment if you name the things you like about him or his movies. You know, using language to express your feelings. So I can connect with you.

[Minnii333]

yes of course i agree with you. i usualy analyze his movies to the smallest detail and still i beleive he is a genius.

[sture8808]

i absolutely agree with you point, refreshing to read it. and i want to add that people who use that word are often consciously or not doing it selfishly, trying to make themselves sound better, actually complementing themselves. it's much like when stupid people applaud they are often actually applauding themselves.

critique appreciated.

[DalleKanelius]

"but those are... some of them" freakin' golden! :P

[ciconius]

This man really has a good taste!

[benjmin54321]

this man is a fucking genius, through and through

[friday13th1]

Great tastes. Amazing Director.

[thenewrapstyle]

he forgot to mention police academy 1-6

[aperisimo]

lmao

i think he did forgot

[fleming1138]

mr. lynch,

please go back to making films for the big screen and give us an opportunity to see great films again because no one makes great films anymore in America. they just make ok films now. there's plenty of sugar to go with your coffee. ;)

[Slayer100]

I agree with you, films today in hollywood are highly disapointing. The quality of Cinema has decreased immensley, just for money not for art or pleasure.

[lucyluvsclutch]

totally agree!!!!!

[hellofart16]

@fleming1138 even Scorsese is making mediocrity these days.

[VomitSelf7]

Kubrick and Lynch were big influences on eachother. Sunset Boulevard is a movie I realy like, though I've only seen it twice, both times were like when I was alot younger like 8 or 10.

[GoblinGirl]

Kubrick adored Eraserhead, with good reason.

[angelinakitty]

Excellent/thanks for posting this one. much appreciated. Lynch is a genius. interested in his opinions. hope there is more of this interview. five stars