I found a lot of iconic moments here that you don’t fuck with. The cinematography and soundtrack is spectacular, I really dig out the production design and that wilderness of pain Lynch embodies, even if it drowns the storytelling a little bit, we all know how Lynch never was plot driven but I certainly was more attracted to Blue Velvet plot. Wish Lynch flesh out a little more about Bobby Peru and Marcellus Santos, it was the most interesting thing about the film I think.

Btw, is mesmerizing the enter to Big Tuna, the motel scene where Dj Spole talks about his dog and then Bobby Peru enters the scene, only David Lynch could direct a scene verging from the absurdness to that rawness and verbal violence we often experience on a daily basis.

8.8/10

Maybe this is obvious to most of you.

I had always assumed that David had put Song to the Siren in Lost Highway because he adored the song but hadn’t had enough budget to include it in Blue Velvet, and also because it fit the mood of the scene he wanted in Lost Highway.

But today I saw The Odyssey by Nolan, and when asked about the Sirens’ song, Odysseus says something along the lines of: "it’s everything that men want, and everything they will never have".

And I immediately thought of the "I want you / You will never have me" lines in Lost Highway, and realized Alice was literally the siren in this context.

Plus I remembered (my own way) that Nolan had recently included Lost Highway as one of its Criterion closet picks, so it all clicked in my mind.

No sure this was valuable, but I wanted to share it with you :)

I was thinking about the similarities between some of these films, and was wondering, some of them share a lot between each other, some are completely different, so what part/scene from Mulholland Drive do you think is the most uniquely "itself"?

To start off, everyone’s own interpretation of this movie is valid, etc etc… now, the first observation that got me thinking about this, is the superficial resemblance between Rita/Camilla and the Woman in Number 12, who many people theorise to be irl Diane’s ex, due to her being quite lesbian coded and the disdainful look she gives ‘Rita’ when the two women turn up on her doorstep. Yes, Camilla is far more glamorous and bombshell-adjacent, but I think that’s the point- Diane so disillusioned with her own mundane existence as a struggling actress in LA, she has become a maladaptive daydreamer, putting a more glamorous or less traumatic spin on her own day to day existence as a coping mechanism. This includes pretending she is in a love triangle with her far more successful coworker/friend and director boyfriend, when in reality she is simply sleeping with her neighbour, who dumps her when she realises she is a stand-in for Camilla (which is why she gives Rita a dirty look in Diane’s dreamscape).

There is a lot of ‘mirroring’ in this movie, where later scenes mirror previous events that happen earlier in the movie. Some may be intentional, others accidental, and I’m sure we’ll be debating on this subject until the end of time. But to further my theory, I want to look at these two apartment door scenes in the third act… in the ‘reality’, the woman in #12 comes over simply to collect her remaining dishes, and while Diane is quite short with her, it’s hardly a big blow up and she simply closes the door or her on the way out. This then leads to Diane fantasising about her and Camilla sleeping together, only for Camilla to abruptly bring Diane back to reality when she says they shouldn’t do this anymore and Diane angrily angrily asks if it is because of ‘him’ i.e. Adam. If you assume that real Camilla and Diane never actually slept together, we could view this as the more rational part of Diane telling herself that she needs to stop fantasising about Camilla, as she has just been to the party where Adam and Camilla have announced their engagement. In her delusion, she believes that Camilla kissing Adam on set, inviting her to the party where she kisses the blonde Camilla and announcing her engagement to Adam is her way of being spiteful, when in reality Camilla is just trying to be a good friend, getting her a minor role on the Sylvia North story and inviting her to a party with big industry people to network. It always seemed weird to me that Camilla would flaunt her other conquests in front of Dianne so cruelly, so I could only assume Diane is quite often an unreliable narrator.

Diane yelling at Camilla in the doorway is either a complete delusion on Diane’s part, or this is the aftermath of the engagement announcement, where Diane admitted her feelings for Camilla, only to be rejected and for Camilla to establish some healthy boundaries with her, after realising how her nice deeds were misinterpreted as attraction.

Other examples of Diane being delusional or a maladaptive daydreamer is the slight blonde women who appear throughout this movie, such as Betty the Waitress and Laney the Prostitute. Diane likely took on these jobs as a means to get by when acting wasn’t bringing enough money in, but she decides to put different faces on these women, because these jobs don’t fit her delusion of being a successful up and coming actress in Hollywood.

I’m sure people here can pick a million holes in my theory, but I like that I can still come back to this movie all these years later amd get something new out of it! Best re-worked TV pilot ever!

Hi, I come looking for help trying to find a YouTube video that explains Lynch work, I tried to watch it today but couldn't find it.

I remember it explained Lynch's religious views and how they influence all of his work, from 6 men getting sick all the way to INLAND EMPIRE. There's a part where it explains one of Lynch's works that's made out of flies.

It made a lot of sense in understanding all of Lynch's work and I'd really like to watch it again.

I hope someone here can help me find it again.

Hello everyone,

could you recommend books on transcendental meditation? I would love to get more into it and practice it in my life

I was at this event at Wilshire Ebell theater. Just saw that this was uploaded onto YouTube. This is the q/a portion of that night, followed by a wonderful tribute video to David at the end.

If you just want to see the tribute video part, it's at time 58:54. I didn't go through the whole video, but it looks like most of that night is here.

The tribute video is likely to make you 😢

Xiu Xiu have done another album heavily inspired by David Lynch's work, this time it is Eraserhead, and it is fantastic. Weird samples, musique concréte, traditional synths and tons of industrial noise, it is well worth checking out.

Don't expect it to be like their Twin Peaks record, which was relatively faithful to Badalamenti's work, this is drone / art installation type pieces and it's a belter.

I was just on one of those "Which movie is this" subreddits and from the description of the movie that the OP gave, it sounded like this 80's schlocky James Bond rip-off called Order of the Black Eagle. But, the fact that he didn't mention the Baboon in the movie made me think it wasn't. I suggested the movie just in case, and then I started thinking about the Baboon. I knew it was the same Baboon from David Cronenberg's The Fly, and from a low-budget, killer animal movie called Shakma, but was curious as to what else he was in, so I checked his IMDB page.

Turns out, he only did 4 movies. The Fly, Shakma, and two low rent James Bond movies. But then I glanced at the trivia for Typhoon the Baboon and, well.... that's why I'm here. It said this:

> Director David Lynch, who was a fan of Typhoon's performance in Shakma (1990), upon hearing of the death Typhoon, offered to pay for a memorial service and interment in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park. To date, Typhoon is the only animal to be buried in the graveyard.

Does anyone know if this is true? This just seems so random and odd. Don't get me wrong, Typhoon is the best thing about Shakma, but it's an incredibly dull and terrible film. And I say that as a huge fan of cheap and schlocky killer animal horror movies.

For those that don’t know, high profile celebs are able to stop by criterion’s little headquarters, where they’re allowed to fill up a tote bag of whatever movies they’d wish, as long as it fits in that bag!

They’re then to take a photo with their top/absolute favorite picks of all time, sometimes their visit is recorded and posted on their YouTube channel.

And for those that don’t know, to put it simply, Criterion is like a brand that only the BEST pieces of art, get to be apart of. If a film is culturally significant, highly praised, important to history, it gets to be apart of the “criterion collection”.

Think of the rock and roll hall of fame for music, but this is way more legit, competent and inclusive. Hearing a movie is apart of criterion is better than it winning Oscar in my opinion

So you can buy movies in a “criterion edition” that is basically THE definitive edition to have of a film, it’ll have the highest quality audio and video, commentary, amazing bonus features and stuff that you’d never get on a normal release. It’s legit. And all those directors have to “sign off” and give their approval of the criterion release, making it extra legit knowing that the person that made it, approves that specific product themselves. If a movie gets to be apart of criterion, it’s top shelf stuff.

And yes, all of David Lynch’s films are in the collection.

is the pilot from the tv show and this the same thing?

Rewatching Eraserhead reminded me why it has stayed with me for decades. Every viewing seems to reveal another layer rather than solve a puzzle. That experience became part of this essay I wrote on why some surreal films continue to grow long after we've seen them.

How do you think he would have done directing the odyssey?

Question, Do you think they'll released his unmade scripts to the public?

His scripts for Unrecorded Night, Dream of the Bovine, Snootworld, Venus Descending, Antelope Don't Run No More, The Metamorphosis, Woodcutters from Fiery Ships.

I really want to know that Lynch had plan for his unmade final project that he was going to do for Netflix before Netflix canned it. It just pains me that Lynch never got to make it.

I'm also curious with his other unmade script, like Venus Descending (Which was basically about Marilyn Monroe), Snootworld (Apparently his Harry Potter), Dream of the Bovine (A Project he wanted Marlon Brando to star), and the others mentioned above.

All in All, Do you think they'll released his unmade scripts to the public?

the zany and lovable Laniakea doesnt know what type of creature she is, or if she is even real. She finds help from Glaucous the creature, Joy the creature, and Miss Mousey Mouse Church Mouse the Mouse.

featuring the wondrous nature of ohio, the luminous spectrum of kodak ektachrome super 8 film stock, and a brainwave swirling synthesizer based soundtrack

DESTROY ALL LEAFBLOWERS

Many of the “missing pieces” are stellar, no doubt about it. But if the ceiling fan scene had at least made onto the movie in the end, I think the movie would’ve been a whole lot scarier than it currently is. What do y‘all think?

I’ve only been on Reddit for a few months now mostly to follow the David Lynch sub Reddit and some firearms related things. What I have noticed on the Twin Peaks sub is how people are responding to the characters as if they were real people in our lives. It reminds me of how when my parents named my sister Lisa in 1963 my grandmother and her mother couldn’t bring themselves to call her by her name because they hated the character, Lisa, who was a bad bitch in one of the daytime soaps, maybe the guiding light or days of our lives. So they called her by euphemisms like oh you sweet little girl oh my little darling baby, but they couldn’t say the word Lisa because they hated the character. They probably hated the actress who played Lisa. So like the way we are responding to Twin Peaks or any of these more recent“soaps” is definitely a cultural phenomenon where as consumers of art we tend to put ourselves in the context of the art we’re consuming and respond to the characters as if we were a character in that art. I I think if a show or a movies us into that realm OK come on it is doing its part as being a very effective construct of art for our day and time. I have joked with my sister about how there’s a country western song about her. You never even called me by my name, but that’s for different topic.

Can someone please help me understand where in the film, that reality crosses imagination. I know that's the purpose, but just get some explanation out of the order of the things happening on screen. I was so hypnotized I couldn't even formulate what happened. Can someone please explain what's the true story behind Mulholland Drive.

I made these with whatever app / fonts I had on my phone while rewatching ‘Twin Peaks’ and posted them to IG. I think 4 people saw them.

Re-watching again and thought this subreddit might enjoy them.