Twin Peaks

[Mark Thibodeau]

Lynch is one of our great living artists.

Eraserhead? The work of a bold and innovative newcomer, smashing the door
frame as he bulls his way onto the scene.

Elephant Man? An unmitigated masterpiece in the "classic" Hollywood mode.

Dune? An underappreciated, supremely ambitious Gothic science fiction epic.

Blue Velvet? A disturbing restating of Lynch's career-thread thematic
obsessions, only coupled to a bold new contemporary-by-necessity dynamism,
creating yet another (paradoxically speaking) novel archetype.

Wild at Heart? Lynch plus Barry Gifford equals ferocious, playful,
rockabilly Grand Guingol.

Lost Highway? Okay... this one isn't so hot. But man, what a soundtrack!

Twin Peaks (and Fire Walk With Me)? Lynch hijacking the zeitgeist with his
peculiar worldview, and succeeding (mostly), paying incredible artistic/pop
culture dividends.

Mulholland Drive? The magnum opus of the singular David Lynch "genre". His
greatest accomplishment.

The Straight Story? Lynch does Disney... and it somehow works.

Inland Empire? Formally and creatively, perhaps Lynch's most mature and
bold statement to date, combining the deep, psychosocial surrealism of his
early short works and Eraserhead with the off-kilter cultural commentary of
his later masterpieces. Most definitely his most
misunderstood/underappreciated work, because it is his most difficult.

I'm a fan.

Jerky

On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 6:25 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think it's paramount to view Lynch's work as art. Primarily visual art,
> but also meant to be experienced in the theater, in a hot medium, as
> McLuhan always likes to say. I haven't seen Inland Empire yet, but I will
> leap at any opportunity to catch in a theater. Colette loves it after
> multiple viewings, and she is a Lynch scholar.
>
> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 1:55 PM, jesse gooch <jlguuch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> MD was amazing. So well done. Acting was great from everyone involved.
>> Great balance of all of the different Lynchisms.
>> Inland Empire was difficult for me, I enjoyed it, but not in the way that
>> I did most of his other stuff. Disconnected is a great way to describe it
>> Rich. Seemed like a really long collection of interesting images and
>> scenes. Definitely worth watching if you enjoy the guy’s work though.
>>
>> On Jun 8, 2017, at 12:16 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I think what gets me about Mulholland Drive is ultimately how sad it is,
>> beyond all the freaky horror. and considering when it was released, even
>> more so. it resonates. as much as I like Lost Highway, that film doesnt
>> have the human tragedy element that MH has (I refuse to think about Robert
>> Blake)
>>
>> as for Inland Empire, I found it way too abstract and so disconnected,
>> granted Lynch strengths but he really pushed the limits of one's patience
>> there (and it's a long flick, too)
>>
>> rich
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 10:00 AM, Thomas Eckhardt <
>> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 8 Jun 2017 09:41:51 -0400
>>>  rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Fire Walk with Me was surprisingly good. didnt expect that after the
>>>> disappointment of season 2.
>>>>
>>>> with that said I believe Mulholland Drive is the pinnacle of Lynch's
>>>> work
>>>>
>>>> rich
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> One of my favourite movies. I watched it in Hollywood when it came out
>>> and drove along Mulholland Drive the very next day.
>>>
>>> This was a few weeks after September 11. A strange time...
>>>
>>> Ebert has a nice review.
>>>
>>> What about "Inland Empire"? Have not seen it yet but plan to.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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