NP: David Lynch Reading

[Steven Koteff]

Thanks so much for all the input so far. Definitely going to buy the *Lynch
on Lynch *and will probably get the Lim book, too.

We made the list on New Year's Eve, and it took several hours to do, and
was great fun. Lots of arguments, diplomatic choices, etc. Like our own
little climate talks.

We ended up making choices that were some balance between directors we were
interested in seeing for ourselves, directors we wanted the other person to
see, and directors that felt uniquely important (or at least unique). I
consider myself almost shockingly overschooled in post-1980 American cinema
and really underschooled in pre-1980 American cinema plus most non-American
stuff. There's not quite as much stuff on there that will fill those gaps
as I'd like, which we are addressing in two ways:

One is that we are acknowledging we will just have to leave a few until
2017.
Two is that we have an addendum list of directors with one or several
movies we consider important to see, but who we are not totally committing
to this year. E.g. *The Seventh Seal *is on the list, but Bergman's entire
ouevre is not (maybe in 2017).

Here's the list of we ended up with:
Lynch
Kubrick
Herzog
Todd Solondz
Coen Bros.
John Waters
Terrence Malick
Linklater
Ramin Bahrani
Woody Allen

Some of the choices are matters of convenience. Bahrani is young and
unique, worth seeing in his own right (as I insisted) but also only has a
few movies out, which counterbalances Allen/Herzog nicely.

Longlist included, off the top of my head: Gilliam, Ray, Bergman, Fellini,
Welles, Spike Lee, Aronofsky, buncha others.

Definitely lots of glaring omissions. It obviously skews contemporary,
American, white. No women on the list, which is really kind of
unforgivable. We had Sofia Coppola and a few others on the long list. If
anybody has any recommendations to that end I'd be very interested.

On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 8:09 PM, Douglas Holm <dkholm at mac.com> wrote:

> All the Mississippi interview books and the Faber and Faber books are a
> good mix of biography and aesthetics.
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> Suggested directors for your project could include:
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> Fincher
> Hitchcock
> Sophia Coppola
> Wes and PT Anderson
> Tarantino (lots of books on him ... I did two of them)
> Jill Sprecher
> Ophuls
> Nick Ray
> Sam Fuller
> Renoir
> Truffaut
> Melville
> Kurosawa
> Mizoguchi
> Tarkovsky
> Bergman
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> > On Jan 2, 2016, at 4:54 PM, Douglas Holm <dkholm at mac.com> wrote:
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> > There's a new book by Dennis Lim, late of the Village Voice.
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> > http://www.amazon.com/David-Lynch-Another-Place-Icons/dp/0544343751
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> >> On Jan 2, 2016, at 4:41 PM, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> >> A month or two ago I asked if anybody could recommend a Kubrick bio and
> you guys were all helpful (went with the Lobrutto, Mark T's rec).
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> >> I'm no wondering if anybody has a particular book (or books) on Lynch
> to recommend. Biography is desired. If the writer is insightful about
> Lynch's work that'd be a plus but I guess I'm a bit more interested in
> Lynch the guy, as person and artist. Want insight into what made the guy
> make the work.
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> >> My girlfriend and I made a list of ten directors whose work we want to
> see all of, in order, before 2017. We're starting with Lynch. Ideally I'd
> like to read up on each director while we are watching his/her stuff so I
> will be checking back in.
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> >> Thanks in advance. -
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