David Lynch Interview

[Steelidea]

1. Mulholland Drive

2. Eraserhead

3. Lost Highway to me those are the best in order.

[hellokittygirl223]

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[ElsE642]

DAVID LYNCH INTERVIEW FOR A WHILE...

[Foaje]

Mulholland Drive is my alltime favorite!

[thelatestttplague]

The only Lynch films I've seen are Eraserhead and Blue Velvet. But watching that clip inspired me to investigate more of his films. It creeped the fuck out of me.

[Kedgereeclub]

I saw "lost highway" all those years ago late at night in a little garage cinema with about 6 other people and this scene really freaked me out. It wasn´t easy walking home in the dark afterwards. We owe David Lynch alot.

[xLaughingManX]

I have yet to see this film, next on my list, but holy fuck this scene is fucking brilliant. One of the best scenes i've ever seen in a film.

[kikkirow]

the man is truly a genius

[NexusSixx]

This man is a Genius

[LoverSniper]

The best scene from 'Lost Highway' - Robert Blake is a walking nightmare!

[TheEvilelvis89]

I love lynch's wandering right hand !

[LVEMEDO]

AWESOME

[gardenofarcane]

How did you do that?

Ask me!

Give me back my phone ! LMAO

[FascistFashion]

@gardenofarcane "That's fukn Craazy man."

That line always cracks me up!

[noirsociety]

david lynch is very much like a jazz musician where he improvises from the original melodies and creates new moments/ melodies as he films or create. that's what an artist often does. a photographer paints with light, he paints with the 5th dimension.

[mattfca]

i love every single second of mulholland drive, but for some reason i find inland empire completely unwatchable.

[OhNoItsGojira]

@mattfca I found it to be a big pile of garbage. After seeing that documentary which captures his working method I'm surprised the film was even made. Filmmaking is certainly a difficult medium and struggle is inevitable, but I question the lucidity which Lynch has brought to his most recent projects. He gives me the impression of not knowing anything about what he's doing. It's almost a miracle that any of his films were even made.

[gardenofarcane]

@mattfca I agree Inland Empire was very experimental and Lynch had too much control, It needed editing. He shot everything without script.

[visionmakertv]

Truley the greatest director of all time. Absractions in an cotrolled eviorment, every shot is a painting, every script is simply poetry, and to have Trent Reznor (of all people) to produce the soundtrack! Absolute serenity.

[theillfrisch]

has david always done those movements with his hand?

[stratocaster1986able]

Lost highway is fucking insane.

[billheartyface]

man , I could just cuddle up with Robert Blake. he's a cutie.

[SpeakToMe19]

@billheartyface He'll shoot you in the face when morning comes.

[RabbitHolocaust]

I remember this scene just absolutely freaked me out as a kid. Couldn't sleep for nights, that face!

[xTazerx]

Ok, never seen that movie with blake-that scene was sick! If that was a short film i'd be like holyshit!

[rob4eva]

Its it me or does the way he talk seem so hard to understand..

[CatchTheMouseFilm]

..."as a matter of fact I'm there right now..."

[barneygrumble]

call me

[mysticblade35]

omg the hand

[TheFragile89]

"Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd."

- David Lynch

[lostpinup]

WHat?!!

[myboomstick]

Robert Blake at his finest - his bit with Bill Pullman in Lost Highway is one of my favourite pieces of cinema. So freaky! :O

[kleidi10]

track??????????

[shamblestonite]

He always has these characters that are eerie from time to time that pop up telling them what to do or what's happening in the future/ present they're remind me of fortune tellers but a alot more scary!!

[TankSombrero]

The Robert Blake phone peice featured here is Classically Surreal. Surrealism in the classic sense embraced by Dali depicted impossible scenarios like melting time peices presented as actualities.

[scarycaravan]

Great video! A nice opening with his explanation of film.

I remember reading the Lost Highway screenplay prior to seeing the film. I am happy that I did, as the screenplay really made an impact as it had a totally different effect than it did when seeing the film in a visual sense. Reading a David Lynch film is on a completely different level to watching one. If you get hold of one of Davids screenplays read one...

Anyway I babbling on...

[TankSombrero]

Surrealism is not presented for analysis. The surrealiast is interested in arresting analysis. He will never welcome it.

[jgwillia]

Lynch's work isn't surreal. It's abstract - he says so himself.

[TankSombrero]

His work does not have to be one or the other. My views on surrealism can also validly describe the abstract..

[jgwillia]

Well, fair enough. But he himself explicitly *disavows* the term "surreal", and instead uses "abstract".

[TankSombrero]

Really ? well he is entitled to your opinion then.

[TankSombrero]

"Why worry about terms and classifications. If surrealism comes naturally, from inside yourself, and you stay innocent, then it´s fine. A forced, affected surrealism would be horrible."

David Lynch

[glamstilllives]

@TankSombrero thank you for posting that, its just made me smile :)

[jakehalford]

@jgwillia How would you seperate surreal and abstract? I personally think that as soon as you make something abstract its no longer grounded in reality so that would make it surreal.

[trisky1234]

surrealism can be very abstract

[Flubly]

Surreality is an affect on the viewer, the abstraction that Lynch practices is more objectively in the writing and composition. His work may not be surrealism in terms of his goal but I think it ends up being very surreal.

[Flubly]

Actually, sorry for overbearing you with this comment, it has been made a lot already I see.

[Alpesinger]

you pass yes, lol.

[Alpesinger]

William Blake is a poet, and he's not in "Lost Highway"

[kataiya1]

I love him, but he drives me nuts... I'm still trying to figure out some of his films.

[ign4real]

He IS a mystery man, isn't he - that's exactly why I like him...

[phantomdoodler]

@kataiya1 why bother

[turntapzap]

I love him so much.

[regularperson46]

Inland Empire is his best movie.

[P33N0]

Eraserhead and inland Empire are his best, because are the most pure and raw, most stylistic, and most emotional and most surrealist

[screwball82]

Inland Empire moved me so much, long before I began to understand it to any extent

[OhNoItsGojira]

@regularperson46 Puwahaha.

[Ashloomis]

@regularperson46 I still like Wild at Heart best, I find it moving.

[dullath]

@regularperson46 -- hmmmmmmm..... i'm going to have to disagree....  eraserhead is numero uno for me. they are ALL epic.

[Gtownproductions]

damn that scene was like a crazy dream,

[xxtiaan]

best movie soundtrack ever

[HunterMann]

Thanks for posting this interview! I'm excitedly waiting to see the new documentary about the pursuit of David Lynch, called Obsessions. There's a clip on YouTube now. Another wild movie from the famous Dennis Woodruff, he's quite a legend in H'wood and now in Indiewood too.

[JohnMerrick93]

ingenius

[tomjensyd]

What to talk about when you're talking about what you can talk about without talking about what you're talking about . Right? Seriously, Dave, I know what you mean. Always have.

[thomasloyens]

thanks for posting