Movies Favourite David Lynch Film?

[The_Renaissance]

Never loved him to be honest, but didnt mind him - Lost Highway probably for me. Blue Velvet was alright too.

 

[moreorless87]

I'll save you a trip to IMDb. Blue Velvet. Lynch movies aren't for everyone. Don't try and "get" it, don't obsess over every detail and figuring out every charter and motive.

Indeed, I do thin thats often how Lynch and indeed people like Tarkovsky or Kubrick(arty directors famous enough to be widley watched) gets misjudged and maybe ladled elitist, people take the view that everything there seeing is part of some complex intellectual puzzle when in reality the intended message is much simpler based much more on the general feel/tone of the film.

I mean some of Lynch's films did have some very direct hidden meanings to them but I don't think there really that complex...

Lost Highway - An insecure middle aged man murders his wife and then fantasizes himself as a younger more virile man, the mystery man symbolises his dark impulses.

Mullholland Drive - An unsuccessful actress has her former lover killed and fantasizes/dreams a fresh faced version of herself coming to Hollywood being sucessful and meeting a helpless innocent version of her lover with the trash man representing the corruption of Hollywood.

To "get" those plots I don't think is really that difficult but the films are very clearly more than that, Lost Highway is full of material that plays up the lead characters sexual insecurities in a more general sense, Mulholland Drive is full of material which hints at corruption and sexual favours in Hollywood.

Really I would say most people who watch those films even if they didnt pickup on the "hidden plot" will get the deeper message from the general feel of the film and ironically some of those who obcess too much over things being specific will often miss the more general intended message.

 

[Berserker13]

Indeed, I do thin thats often how Lynch and indeed people like Tarkovsky or Kubrick(arty directors famous enough to be widley watched) gets misjudged and maybe ladled elitist, people take the view that everything there seeing is part of some complex intellectual puzzle when in reality the intended message is much simpler based much more on the general feel/tone of the film.

I mean some of Lynch's films did have some very direct hidden meanings to them but I don't think there really that complex...

Lost Highway - An insecure middle aged man murders his wife and then fantasizes himself as a younger more virile man, the mystery man symbolises his dark impulses.

Mullholland Drive - An unsuccessful actress has her former lover killed and fantasizes/dreams a fresh faced version of herself coming to Hollywood being sucessful and meeting a helpless innocent version of her lover with the trash man representing the corruption of Hollywood.

To "get" those plots I don't think is really that difficult but the films are very clearly more than that, Lost Highway is full of material that plays up the lead characters sexual insecurities in a more general sense, Mulholland Drive is full of material which hints at corruption and sexual favours in Hollywood.

Really I would say most people who watch those films even if they didnt pickup on the "hidden plot" will get the deeper message from the general feel of the film and ironically some of those who obcess too much over things being specific will often miss the more general intended message.

What your take on twin peaks the original without spoiling too much?

 

[moreorless87]

What your take on twin peaks the original without spoiling too much?

Honestly its been well over a decade since I watched it, been meaning to get around to it and probably will now.

 

[badascan]

Lumiere

 

[RoastBeast]

I've never even heard of him or seen any of his movies.

 

[shadowmanifold]

Twin Peaks season 1 and 2. Easy. I would even contend that is some of the greatest art ever made. There is just something about the medium and limits to the medium in that context that made Lynch even more creative than normal.
That was on network TV next to 1991 corny sitcoms.
I thought season 3 was complete trash. Undoing the greatest ending ever to a series was criminal. I know season 2 was not the planned ending but I actually think it is one of the great lessons in art.
So many amazing characters brought to life.

If Twin Peaks doesn't count, I would go Lost Highway. Bowie - Outside is my all time favorite album though. I am super biased because that film got me into Outside.

Short films I would go Premonition Following an Evil Deed.

Best place to start? It is not even a question to me. The opening scene of Twin Peaks is just incredible.