Filmmaker David Lynch has passed (2 Viewers)

[superchuck500]

RIP - Also one of a kind. Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, etc

 

[BigOdin504]

Damn.
Rip
Loss of a true original

 

[Sun Wukong]

Unfortunately been waiting for this news after it was revealed last year his lungs were in such bad shaoe he could no longer leave the house.

Absolute legend. Incredivle filmography from top to bottom and always did it his own way.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

78 is right on that border
but dang, to be so iconoclastic that tv/film visual storytelling changes bc of your influence
that's kinda awesome

 

[Madmarsha]

Now I'll never know what his movies mean.

 

[superchuck500]

Now I'll never know what his movies mean.

 

[tenordas]

Eraserhead is the weirdest film I've ever seen. I remember one film critic said, "One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry." I thought that summed up the reaction to it perfectly.
My roommate at LSU was so excited when it was playing at the Varsity that he'd get to see it. He felt he was fully prepared having seen off the wall films like Liquid Sky, Eating Raoul, and a couple of others. I told him he wasn't prepared at all if he thought those things prepared him. He came back from the film and just sat with a sort of blank stare at the wall, and kept saying, "That was a weird f-ing movie." I just kept smirking/chuckling every time he said it. It disturbed him greatly and I remember him not sleeping well that night, either.

A lot of people disliked his version of "Dune" and it didn't do well at the box office, but I found it stunning, and it inspired me to read the books (which i admit are better, but that's true 95+% of the time with any book/film).

RIP to a great creative visual artist.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Eraserhead is the weirdest film I've ever seen. I remember one film critic said, "One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry." I thought that summed up the reaction to it perfectly.
My roommate at LSU was so excited when it was playing at the Varsity that he'd get to see it. He felt he was fully prepared having seen off the wall films like Liquid Sky, Eating Raoul, and a couple of others. I told him he wasn't prepared at all if he thought those things prepared him. He came back from the film and just sat with a sort of blank stare at the wall, and kept saying, "That was a weird f-ing movie." I just kept smirking/chuckling every time he said it. It disturbed him greatly and I remember him not sleeping well that night, either.

A lot of people disliked his version of "Dune" and it didn't do well at the box office, but I found it stunning, and it inspired me to read the books (which i admit are better, but that's true 95+% of the time with any book/film).

RIP to a great creative visual artist.

oh man Eating Raoul is so good

 

[sfidc3]

When I first moved to MD, my roommate Jimmy (we are still friends) was obsessed with Eraserhead, he got big late fees because he returned it like over a month late, I think he watched it almost every night.....

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

most will talk about his framing and, of course, saturated color palette
and definitely his cavalcade of odd characters
but I think his use of music is one of the underrated aspects of his creations
his use of "In Dreams" in Blue Velvet was so scary/enticing
I am almost certain that scene unlocked something deep within Tarantino and Wes & PT Anderson et al
to say nothing of Vince Gilligan, Lindlehof

 

[Moon]

Hate to hear this, lost an original

Realy wish we could have had more Twin Peaks, just loved that series. And no, I didn't understand all of it (needed online cliff notes sometimes), but the atmosphere, the music, the mystery made up for that

 

[Optimus Prime]

Haven’t seen eraserhead but I thought blue velvet was one of the weirdest movies I’ve ever seen

 

[Saintman2884]

most will talk about his framing and, of course, saturated color palette
and definitely his cavalcade of odd characters
but I think his use of music is one of the underrated aspects of his creations
his use of "In Dreams" in Blue Velvet was so scary/enticing
I am almost certain that scene unlocked something deep within Tarantino and Wes & PT Anderson et al
to say nothing of Vince Gilligan, Lindlehof

I hope David Lynch gives his regards to all those lost souls in the Night Country and the Black Lodge where all the ghouls, goblins, and people from other strange places can sit around on couches, chairs, or sofas and stare at each other with odd, peculiar tones and speak 5-10x faster then normal human beings about trying to save "Laura Palmer".


The owls have seen it, Guido and reported it back to me.

 

[Saintman2884]

When I first moved to MD, my roommate Jimmy (we are still friends) was obsessed with Eraserhead, he got big late fees because he returned it like over a month late, I think he watched it almost every night.....

Eraserhead was so compelling if you were into complex, multi-nuanced, highly interpretative film plot storylines. In its own unique way, it was kind of the 1970's version of Fight Club in black-and-white. I think Eraserhead was actually Lynch's first major successful film when it was released in 1975 and before the rise in popularity of rental movie companies like Blockbuster, there was a period in the mid-late 70's where "midnight matinee" movies like Rocky Horror Picture Show, Eraser head and Night of the Living Dead racked up huge crowds at midnight showings at local theaters before it went out of fashion by the early 80's. Eraserhead might've been the last successful "midnight matinee" movie in a crude, primitive era of film marketing and promotion that no longer exists.

 

[BigOdin504]

Haven’t seen eraserhead but I thought blue velvet was one of the weirdest movies I’ve ever seen

Blue velvet is a movie experience.
Denis hopper is terrifying in it, eating up every scene he’s in.
It goes from terrifying to innocent almost in the same moment.
It’s something special