NP: David Lynch Reading

[Steven Koteff]

Everybody, thanks so much for the responses. I'm out at the Art Institute this morning because it's the last day of these two exhibitions I don't know much about yet. One is devoted solely to a single architect I don't know much about. David Adjaye I believe is his name. And then the other is some particular tradition of Krishna paintings (some 'first such display' or another according to the AIC's ads).

So my responses will be sporadic at best until this afternoon but I would very much like to engage everybody. This is way stimulating, and educational. 

By the way I was recently talking to an employee of the Chicago Botanic Gardens who dismissed the AIC, where he used to work, as 'a corporation disguised as a nonprofit' which seems obvious enough. But if you care about that sort of ideological argument--about it on the scale of large culturally important public space, which seems to me to be a bureaucratic idea of an area of huge Pynchonian significance, the idea that a place can be somehow especially conducive to positive energy--know that the Botanic Gardens are for you. I just went for the first time this fall, after living in (the other side of) this city for most of my life, and joined immediately. There is real heart going on. The (homemade) wine is like $3 which speaks volumes. If you come to Chicago this is a place you should go to. 

You know, I grew up in a neighborhood on the south side of the city totally made up of Chicago police officers (who are now getting global attention) and fire fighters. I hardly ever purposely read a book until I was sixteen at least. Movies were my first language. As a kid growing up in the 90s, with attention deficit problems, also deeply and manically obsessive, they were basically my first language. But it was exclusively Hollywood. I didn't know art movies existed until I got to college in 2008. (Hadn't purposely read a book until I was sixteen.) So there's a ton I haven't seen. But then I have a horrifically encyclopedic knowledge of Hollywood movies from 93-08. 





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