NP: David Lynch Reading

[John Bailey]

Geez, Herzog will keep you busy. But Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo,
absolutely unforgettable.

Will you be viewing each oeuvre chronologically?

Women I can think of that might make it onto a similar list would be
Claire Denis, Kathryn Bigelow (big contrast across her career), Jane
Campion, Chantal Akerman (RIP).

On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 2:03 PM, Douglas Holm <dkholm at mac.com> wrote:
> What a great list!!!
>
> I forgot Herzog, though I don't like him all that much, but he is
> significant as a genre bender.
>
> Corns, of course.
>
> Mallick is interesting but more for his influence (Revenant) than his
> achievement ... Is he a Christian apologist? I can't tell, but it's an
> interesting discussion.
>
> I love Linklater ... Almost put him on the list, but didn't think of him
> until after "send " .... Great subject for further research.
>
> I've been wanting to get into Barhrani since Ebert went out on a limb for
> him after his first film a decade ago.
>
> Great list!!!
>
> On Jan 2, 2016, at 6:49 PM, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>>
>> Suggested directors for your project could include:
>>
>> 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:
>> >>
>> >> 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).
>> >>
>> >> 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.
>> >>
>> >> 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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