[HN Gopher] David Lynch has died
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David Lynch has died
Author : wut42
Score : 779 points
Date : 2025-01-16 18:20 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| fibers wrote:
| rip to a legend
| throw0101c wrote:
| * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lynch
| NoGravitas wrote:
| RIP to one of my favorite filmmakers.
| losthobbies wrote:
| Oh that's really sad. A favourite director of mine.
| canucker2016 wrote:
| Eraserhead - my mind is still trying to make sense of it
| jsheard wrote:
| Believe it or not, it was his most spiritual film.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjoMEw2RYlA
| canucker2016 wrote:
| ====
|
| Host: "Elaborate on that..."
|
| David Lynch: "No, I won't." [Host and audience laughs]
|
| ====
|
| Gee - that creates even more questions.
|
| [edit]
|
| Here's the start of the Eraserhead portion of the interview -
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpomrL0qA-E&t=372s
| Reefersleep wrote:
| "Fear and anguish of parenthood" as a movie?
| usrnm wrote:
| This is incredibly sad news. I guess I'm rewatching "Mulholland
| Drive" tonight
| andrewstuart wrote:
| Lynch's was still my favorite version of Dune despite flaws.
| sho_hn wrote:
| Yep, no contest. Compared to the sterile, boring, brooding
| Villeneuve version - a tone that worked well in Blade Runner
| 2049 however - it's so much more entertaining and interesting.
| andrewstuart wrote:
| I liked the first one from Villeneuve because for the most
| part it stuck to the story but the second one veered off into
| its own story.
|
| I know its nerdy but I absolutely hate when movies of classic
| books think the story needs to be changed (I'm looking at
| you, Peter Jackson).
| angry_moose wrote:
| I'm still reserving judgement.
|
| In a vacuum I don't love the changes he made to Part 2 but
| I can also see how they will make it flow much better into
| Part 3 than Dune > Dune Messiah ever did (that always felt
| disjointed to me); as well as make that story more
| compelling.
| andrewstuart wrote:
| I wish just for once these directors had simply made the
| movie of the book and damn the consequences of what
| Hollywood thinks audiences want. The movies that
| directors such as Peter Jackson make are brilliantly done
| - if only the story wasn't hacked. And that's not even
| addressing the worst of the travesties such as Radagast
| the Brown being covered in bird shit and the dwarves in
| The Hobbit being a bunch of circus clowns.
| jajko wrote:
| Its often not directors defining pacing and length of the
| result, but producer/studio. A lot of bitter conflicts
| came up from this.
| wbl wrote:
| What works in books often doesn't work on screen and vice
| versa. They are different media.
| dpig_ wrote:
| Agreed. The difference between a book and a film is that
| they are completely different things. You can't just
| graft a story from one directly onto another and expect
| results.
| freejazz wrote:
| It's not about what they "think audience want" it's about
| what film directors _know_ works for visual storytelling
| as opposed to written storytelling.
| cgriswald wrote:
| I've tried to avoid spoilers below, but there are some
| minor ones for anyone reading who has never read _Dune
| Messiah_.
|
| I've read _Dune_ at least a dozen times and followed up
| with _Dune Messiah_ a few times. Sometimes I get that
| feeling of disjointedness. At its most extreme, Paul
| feels like a total stranger. (Stilgar might as well be a
| different characters; we see a changed character, but not
| the change.) Sometimes it feels like the books flows
| nicely despite the time jump. My best guess is that it
| depends on what aspects I 've been most focused on while
| reading.
|
| I'm reserving judgment as well, but one part is really
| stuck in my craw. Although I felt like Villeneuve's Chani
| was generally stronger I felt the last scene made her
| look like a child and my first thought was that it was a
| weak attempt to set up a particular relationship for Part
| 3.
| spokaneplumb wrote:
| I appreciated the change to make Chani fill a role like
| Sherif Ali in the film _Lawrence Of Arabia_ (the book
| _Seven Pillars of Wisdom_ , if not the film, is plainly a
| huge influence on Herbert's _Dune_ , and it's probably
| impossible for a director to film so much as a scene set in
| the desert without thinking of Lean's film).
|
| So much of Dune takes place inside people's heads that it's
| basically unfilmable if you don't make some changes. Plus,
| even with five hours of film, you're going to be cutting
| whole scenes from the book whether you want to or not.
| Lynch's solution was to make it a more straightforward
| hero's journey--and given the length of his film, and no
| expectation of sequels, I can't really blame him.
| Villeneuve had more space and so could tell a darker and
| more foreboding story, closer to the original, but still
| needed to externalize some of that internal struggle and
| foreshadowing, for which he used, especially, Chani.
|
| [EDIT] Oh and as for this:
|
| > I know its nerdy but I absolutely hate when movies of
| classic books think the story needs to be changed
|
| Every now and then such a deviation ends up being excellent
| as its own way, while still benefitting from the connection
| to the original and being better as an "adaptation" than an
| independent property. Verhoeven's _Starship Troopers_ would
| be one of the more extreme examples of this kind of
| outcome. A gentler one might be Kubrick 's _The Shining_.
| msabalau wrote:
| Good adaptation is inherently transformative, despite nerd
| disgruntlement.
|
| Perhaps in a few years AI will have progressed to the point
| people can spin up their own literal version and see this
| for themselves.
| iknownthing wrote:
| Lynch had the cojones to show a guild navigator
| g-b-r wrote:
| Just be sure to watch the longer, two-parts version; it's
| bewildering how much the ending was butchered, and changed, in
| the theatrical one
| pram wrote:
| They re-released it in theaters when the new Dune came out. I
| was one of four people at my viewing!
| simmons wrote:
| I thought I was the only one who preferred David Lynch's Dune.
| I'm glad to find out I'm not alone. I explain to people that it
| depends on if you're a bigger David Lynch fan or a Frank
| Herbert fan. I have nothing against Herbert, but I guess
| there's something about Lynch's work that speaks to me, even a
| movie like Dune that he himself hated.
| Ygg2 wrote:
| I love Lynch and Dune, but his Dune was a cult film but not a
| good adaption. I mean the cat milking scene is absolutely a
| wtf.
|
| Villeneuve version is the superior adaptation.
| philipov wrote:
| Here's a non-facebook link for anyone who refuses to use that
| site:
|
| https://variety.com/2025/film/news/david-lynch-dead-director...
| wut42 wrote:
| Thank you. I was hesitating to post the facebook source but
| back when I submitted there was no other coverage.
| freedomben wrote:
| HN guidelines prefer the original source when possible, so
| you did the right thing IMHO.
| wut42 wrote:
| Apparently not!
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42729717
|
| Funny :)
| freedomben wrote:
| Oh damn haha, a good example I suppose that "guidelines"
| aren't meant to be hard rules :-)
| jamesfmilne wrote:
| Also on The Grauniad
|
| https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/16/david-lynch-twi...
| dang wrote:
| Ok, we'll use that above, since it has so much more
| information. (Submitted url was
| https://www.facebook.com/davidlynchofficial/posts/it-is-
| with....)
|
| Another relevant link people may want to look at:
|
| https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/david-ly...
|
| Looks like NYT haven't published their full obituary yet.
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42730000
|
| https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/movies/david-lynch-
| dead.h...
|
| https://archive.today/NAhZi
| phantom_wizard wrote:
| Sad news, he was a genius creator - I like to think about him as
| Salvador Dali of our times. For sure his works will be
| remembered.
| throwaway29303 wrote:
| RIP, master. You'll be missed. ;~;7
| mcbuilder wrote:
| What a guy, managed to meet him once! Sad all those American
| Spirits probably caused his untimely death.
| sho_hn wrote:
| In his own views:
| https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/nov/15/david-lynch-emp...
| evanelias wrote:
| Rest in peace to a one-of-a-kind creative genius. Strangely I
| just rewatched Inland Empire last night for the first time since
| seeing it in the theater, so this is hitting extra hard.
|
| In addition to his incredible film/television work, I'd like to
| give a shout-out to his other forms of artistic expression which
| often got less attention. His musical output captured the same
| unique vibe as his films, for example his album Crazy Clown Time
| is almost certainly best enjoyed in a smoky room with syncopated
| strobe lights and patterned flooring. His mixed-media paintings
| and sculpture were also impressively unsettling.
| saijanai wrote:
| For Lynch his most important work was promoting his foundation
|
| Here's a nationally televised discussion he had with the
| President of Ukraine about teaching 100,000 veterans to
| meditate:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf7-mErKWlc
|
| .
|
| His final public appearance was a video he sent to a fundraiser
| for his foundation last year:
|
| https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlynch/comments/1fg3npu/david_l...
|
| ______
|
| * _May everyone be happy._
|
| _May everyone be free of disease._
|
| _May auspiciousness be seen everywhere._
|
| _May suffering belong to no-one._
|
| _Peace._
|
| _Jai guru dev_
|
| ________
| jonhohle wrote:
| During Covid I started watching his daily weather update, even
| though I didn't live in LA. Virtually every day was the same.
| Very clear. Very still.
|
| I'm not sure if anyone could ever "get" one of his movies
| completely beyond the experience and the narrative. He always
| left so much unsaid and open to interpretation, just like life.
| They are movies designed to make the viewer feel a certain way,
| rather than literally what's in the screen. He was one of the few
| directors that I thought of as making weird things that I would
| enjoy (most of the time), but how could anyone else?
|
| "I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not
| necessarily the way they happened."
| antognini wrote:
| It took me a little while to be convinced that he was actually
| reporting the weather as it was like at his home rather than
| saying the same thing every day. But, no, he was really
| reporting the weather and the weather is really just always
| like that in LA.
| tanseydavid wrote:
| "Los Angeles, every day, hot and sunny, today, hot and sunny,
| tomorrow, hot and, for the rest of the... hot and sunny,
| every single day, hot and sunny. And they love it. 'Isn't
| great, every day, hot and sunny?' What are you, a @$%^&
| lizard?"
|
| - Bill Hicks
| jamestimmins wrote:
| I've been in LA for 14 years, and I always say LA has great
| weather in the same way a mall has good weather. It's never
| unpleasant and is always "perfect", but at some point you
| miss the feeling of breeze and slight variations and it
| feels like you're breathing air from a can.
| sharkweek wrote:
| I'm in Seattle and during the summer heat, the city dries
| and sometimes ends up with smokey haze from wildfires.
|
| Then comes that random rainy day at the end of the
| heatwave, gives the city a shower it needs and the fresh
| smell is unbeatable.
|
| I'm not sure what heaven smells like, but if I had to
| guess it's like the air after summer rain in my city.
| jvergeldedios wrote:
| I mean we get wind. But that usually comes right before
| fire.
| sitkack wrote:
| That is funny, when I see David I see Bill and vice versa.
| mhh__ wrote:
| I was also under the impression that sometimes his weather
| report was more like a him stating how he was feeling that
| morning
| toast0 wrote:
| LA weather is either "coastal low clouds will burn off by
| late morning, it'll be a lovely day", StormWatch(TM), or
| Santa Ana winds.
|
| There's no other options :P
| soperj wrote:
| Reminds me of his comic strip. Same pictures every time, just
| different words.
| SideburnsOfDoom wrote:
| > I'm not sure if anyone could ever "get" one of his movies
| completely beyond the experience and the narrative.
|
| His movies are not supposed to be "got" completely. They are
| surrealist. They have the logic of dreams. Or nightmares. There
| are things in them that won't ever make literal sense.
|
| Any film school graduate can string together some random images
| and call it "surreal", and mostly those would be boring. but
| Lynch was a master: in his films, all too often, just as your
| conscious mind was going "wait, what?" some subconscious voice
| would be nodding "yes, that fits".
| PittleyDunkin wrote:
| I want to push back on the surreal end slightly. It's true
| that his movies are extremely resistant to analysis, and it's
| true that much of his imagery is de-facto surreal. But his
| movies still have narratives assembled from humans in
| concrete situations with concrete problems and easily
| understandable actions and reactions. In other words, you can
| enjoy his movies as an experience at relative face-value in a
| way many other forms of surreal art resist.
|
| Some more than others, perhaps--the man produced Dune and
| Eraserhead pretty damn close together, and Eraserhead is not
| generally considered an easy movie to watch. But the man was
| never afraid or dismissive of giving us straightforwardly
| enjoyable cinema, even if we can't easily articulate why!
| magarnicle wrote:
| Sort of. The plot is not always clear, but what is always
| clear is how you are supposed to feel in each scene.
| Trasmatta wrote:
| Yes! I tell people to focus on the emotions that come up when
| they watch his stuff, and to focus less on trying to piece
| everything together.
| timewizard wrote:
| Eraserhead is about the fear of being a new father.
| dj_gitmo wrote:
| > I'm not sure if anyone could ever "get" one of his movies
| completely beyond the experience and the narrative.
|
| The plots of his movies are often more concrete than people
| expect. I'm not saying a movie like Mulholland Drive is easy to
| follow, but it does have a legible plot. Feel free to read the
| wiki or something if you are not sure who some character is or
| what they are doing.
|
| If you are just letting the experience wash over you, you may
| be missing some plot points that are not meant to be
| mysterious.
|
| Obviously his movies are weird and not entirely legible, but
| don't assume everything in them is meant to be inscrutable.
| jonhohle wrote:
| I wasn't implying that there was no narrative, just that his
| movies were so much more than just the narrative. And often
| things that seemed perplexing were just things he thought
| were interesting or beautiful so he put them there for no
| other reason.
|
| That's, in my opinion, where some of the intractability comes
| from: is this bug buzzing around a ceiling light meaningful
| to the plot or just something he saw one day and wanted
| others to experience as well. Every once in a while he'd give
| a tell, often unintentionally, while talking about something
| else. But most of the time he let things into the world
| without explanation.
| tannhaeuser wrote:
| How sad. Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive (the IMO under-
| appreciated pilot), and yes _his_ Dune even though he didn 't
| like it are some of my favourite movies of all time. RIP
| g-b-r wrote:
| 100% for his Dune
|
| Hopefully it will get reappraised, now
| loevborg wrote:
| One of the most brilliant failures of move history
| heresie-dabord wrote:
| _Blue Velvet_ and _Elephant Man_. Discover them or help someone
| else discover them.
| tannhaeuser wrote:
| Of course I know them (actually watched Elephant Man as a kid
| on the big screen!). Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive just
| sting harder as unspeakable reflection on who we pretend to
| be to ourselves vs how we might look in the eyes of a cruel
| society IMO if my interpretation isn't totally nuts. I think
| I'm going to watch MD right now in memoriam!
| hinkley wrote:
| We discovered a cut that was about three hours that people who
| hadn't read the book seemed to understand. Had a different
| intro and flowed better.
|
| I've seen three versions of this movie. The theatrical and the
| longest one both sucked for anyone not a Herbert fan. I thought
| the longest was the director's cut but he never did one.
| Perhaps it was the TV movie cut. But I don't know what the
| "good" one was called.
| messe wrote:
| My best guess is that you're thinking of the Spicediver edit,
| a fan edit which runs about three hours, and is highly
| regarded.
| sitkack wrote:
| https://www.phind.com/search?cache=mrvch82ai4szf4ulx1c98eqt
| officeplant wrote:
| Thanks for this, now I've got a nice movie night plan.
| hinkley wrote:
| Do you know when this was made? The version I am thinking
| of existed at least as early as 1995, possibly 1993.
| Someone else hosted us so that removes a lot of the clues I
| would normally use to figure out when exactly it happened.
| cgriswald wrote:
| This page on IMDB has all the "legitimate" versions I'm aware
| of, but I'm sure there are unauthorized cuts out there:
|
| https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087182/alternateversions/
|
| A non-theatrical "director's cut" is a Mandela Effect moment
| for me. I don't know what I watched. It wasn't the TV
| version, because that was the first version I watched. I can
| only guess that it was a common mistake to call some version
| "the director's cut" among viewers (or maybe just my friends)
| in the past.
|
| The list I've linked to certainly wasn't illuminating for me,
| but maybe it will be for you.
| tannhaeuser wrote:
| Interesting. I understand he wasn't satisfied with the
| introductory narrative and other non-cinematic means of
| storytelling. But I love how the movie focuses on inner
| dialog to approach the novel and how decidedly non-techie,
| for sci-fi of all things, the movie was at the time,
| believably telling the story of a post-tech society that had
| room for style and decadence. And the Dune remake pays
| tribute to it.
|
| I was also in awe how time travel was depicted by music;
| might help that the cheesy guild navigator scene operating
| the spacecraft wasn't shown (or was it? I didn't notice it
| when I first viewed it, and I like to think that's one of
| those scenes David Lynch would've rather left out).
| mrandish wrote:
| I camped out in line on Hollywood Blvd for several hours to
| be in the first public screening of Dune at the Chinese
| Theater. So I know I saw the release print and to my then
| college-aged perceptions, I didn't really connect with it. I
| didn't think it was bad but I didn't think it was good
| either.
|
| I blame this on the muddled mess that was the release edit
| and how misleadingly the film was promoted by the studio. I
| was a huge fan of pop sci-fi like Star Wars, Alien and Blade
| Runner and the advertising set a very different audience
| expectation than what the film delivered. Unfortunately, that
| experience kind of tainted Lynch's Dune for me.
|
| I didn't really begin to appreciate Lynch as a great
| filmmaker until Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks, both of which I
| loved. Someone linked a 'highly-regarded' three hour fan edit
| of Lynch's Dune which I've bookmarked to check out.
| diggan wrote:
| Sad to hear. Personally I think I've only seen Mulholland Drive
| before, but long time ago. I enjoy surreal movies in general, so
| kind of weird I haven't seen more of Lynch's work. What personal
| favorites do other HNers have, of what he'd done?
| Starlevel004 wrote:
| Twin Peaks is the best TV show ever made
| darkr wrote:
| The first season is a masterpiece. Second season goes off the
| rails and loses direction fairly early on
| 508LoopDetected wrote:
| But it's very much redeemed by the third season, which is
| every bit as good as the first season, albeit rather
| different in tone.
| chikenf00t wrote:
| Part 8 of season 3 left a deep impression on me. I still
| think about it regularly.
| kgwgk wrote:
| "This is the water and this is the well. Drink full and
| descend. The horse is the white of the eyes and dark
| within."
|
| (I had to check if that was part 8 - but of course it
| is.)
| spokaneplumb wrote:
| Last few episodes are great again, and then we got _Fire
| Walk With Me_ which is awesome. Also check out the feature-
| length _The Missing Pieces_ composed of scenes cut from
| _Fire Walk_ , if you haven't.
|
| Frankly I find even the "bad" stretch of S2 better than
| more than half of allegedly-good TV, anyway.
| messe wrote:
| I agree, although on rewatches I have fast-forwarded
| through a lot of the James scenes in S2.
| spokaneplumb wrote:
| James-hate is common even among the more devoted fans of
| the show, I think.
|
| https://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/why-we-hate-james-
| hurl...
|
| I think about the "Watching Twin Peaks" comic around 2/3
| down that page pretty much every time he's on screen.
| "Ugh yes please go," indeed.
|
| Oddly, I liked him in _The Return_.
| messe wrote:
| I really only dislike his scenes with Evelyn to be
| honest, it's one of the few subplots that just bores the
| hell out of me.
| chikenf00t wrote:
| Blue Velvet and Wild At Heart are my two personal favorites.
| And as stated before, Twin Peaks is one of the greatest shows
| ever made.
| uncertainrhymes wrote:
| If you enjoy surreal movies then definitely Blue Velvet and
| Wild at Heart. Just don't watch them with your kids. (Or
| parents...)
|
| They are not 'normal', which is something I always admired
| about David Lynch. He had a very personal style and vision, and
| stuck with it.
| evanelias wrote:
| Random anecdote along those lines: I got along great with my
| manager at my first full-time job, but was surprised when he
| mentioned one day that he wasn't interested in independent
| film at all. As an indie film lover myself, I asked him why.
|
| He grew up in a very straight-laced conservative community,
| and he said that he and his friends tried to watch an
| independent film once, but they all found the film was far
| too disturbing. So after that he never tried again.
|
| I asked what film they watched, and he answered Blue Velvet,
| and suddenly his perspective made a lot more sense to me!
| cstuder wrote:
| My best Mullholland Drive experience: A couple of years ago a
| local arthouse cinema showed the movie again. It was brilliant,
| just like I remembered it.
|
| After the showing, the projectionist came into the room and
| apologized for the confusing movie: "I must have mixed up the
| reels..."
|
| She didn't.
| dfxm12 wrote:
| What Did Jack Do? (netflix)
|
| His PS2 commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Laf9vpJMDjA
|
| Rabbits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drjQfQtv2BQ
|
| Aside from his films, I'd also suggest his still art (here's a
| video of him walking through an exhibition of his work at his
| alma mater: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmkJ3ff22gI). He's
| also got his music (I should note, the video was not directed
| by Lynch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IugOfDBWcGc
| corysama wrote:
| I love _Lost Highway_. But, you have to watch the whole thing
| confused. Then have someone explain what 's happening in the
| last scene. Then watch the whole thing again amazed. Also, the
| soundtrack was one of the first produced by Trent Reznor --long
| before he made a hobby of collecting Oscars.
|
| And, I grew up watching Lynch's _Dune_ over and over until it
| made sense :P
| non-nil wrote:
| The soundtrack to Lost Highway is one of my top albums, all
| categories. Equally as fascinating, weird, violent and
| beautiful as the film itself. The tracks are masterfully
| sequenced, often blend into each other and form a complete
| work in itself.
|
| It has long been my testbed for gapless playback on various
| hardware and software, often to my disappointment. (I'm not
| sure the experience is even available on streaming platforms,
| where things are normally playlists of disparate blobs of
| data, where perhaps "this track is not available in your
| region".)
| nonrandomstring wrote:
| As well as soundtracks, Lynch is a huge figure in sound
| design generally. He is a pioneer and master of several
| techniques that have entered the standard repertoire now,
| like foreshadowing, looming, use of rhythmic leitmotifs. A
| very creative pioneer. Will be missed. RIP.
| throw_pm23 wrote:
| To me that was his movie that made most sense. It seems a
| perfect allegorical depiction of what it means to have bad
| conscience.
| jsbg wrote:
| Inland Empire is my favorite film of his, followed by the Twin
| Peaks movie, but I'm not sure the movie stands on its own
| without the TV show.
| UntitledNo4 wrote:
| The Straight Story is not at all surreal, but rather simple and
| heart-warming, and somehow still somewhat weird.
| Fricken wrote:
| I recommend starting at the beginning with Eraserhead. He
| hasn't made anything I would classify as _less_ than brilliant.
| tumsfestival wrote:
| Shit. I wasn't expecting him to die anytime soon, so this came as
| a surprise.
|
| RIP
| tonymet wrote:
| One of the few mainstream Directors capable of producing an
| "emotional experience" rather than a strict narrative. If you've
| found his movies baffling, or non-sensical try to approach them
| with this mindset.
| ctack wrote:
| Blue Velvet. Twin Peaks. Lost Highway..
|
| No words, just a feeling somewhere between waking and dreaming.
| antognini wrote:
| During the pandemic David Lynch released a daily weather video in
| which he reported what the weather was at his home in Los
| Angeles.
|
| First video was May 11, 2020:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krIj6eLF4mU
|
| Last video was December 16, 2022:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l21GFyOO8Ug
|
| He also released a daily video in which he drew a bingo number. I
| can't really imagine any other major director doing something
| like that in their late 70s.
| woodson wrote:
| I also liked his interview project:
| https://youtube.com/@davidlynchpresentsIP
| briteside wrote:
| Actually he started this back in 2005
| saijanai wrote:
| HIs final video was sent to his foundation's fundraiser last
| year because he couldn't attend:
|
| https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlynch/comments/1fg3npu/david_l...
|
| These were the very last words he spoke:
|
| ______
|
| _May everyone be happy._
|
| _May everyone be free of disease._
|
| _May auspiciousness be seen everywhere._
|
| _May suffering belong to no-one._
|
| _Peace._
|
| _Jai guru dev_
|
| ________
| shanecleveland wrote:
| Love Twin Peaks. Puget Sound resident here. I can see the big
| driftwood log Laura Palmer was found next to from my window.
| fallinghawks wrote:
| Twin Peaks was delightfully weird. It was the sole reason I
| bought a TV, believe it or not.
| MisterTea wrote:
| Another nice thing about Twin Peaks is it inspired Chris
| Carter's X-files and the early X-files seasons have that same
| dreary feel to them Twin Peaks did.
| tines wrote:
| X-Files was another amazing show. A must-watch for my kids,
| when they come of age for it.
| dfxm12 wrote:
| Aside from, obviously, David Duchovny, more than a handful of
| the regular Twin Peaks cast showed up in the X Files. Shapes
| ft. Michael Horse and Humbug ft. Michael J. Anderson are two
| particularly great early episodes.
| MisterTea wrote:
| Don S. Davis played Maj. Garland Briggs in Twin Peaks and
| Captain William Scully, Dana Scully's father in the X-files
| first season (and in one or two later cameos). In both he
| plays a stuffy high ranking military officer which is quite
| amusing.
| drooopy wrote:
| RIP Don S. Davis, aka 90 TV's best military dad.
| xenospn wrote:
| I made the pilgrimage to Snoqualmie and North Bend multiple
| times. David Lynch has always been my inspiration.
| shanecleveland wrote:
| A lot of beautiful scenery, and the locations themselves are
| like characters in the show.
| dhfbshfbu4u3 wrote:
| "Beautiful blue skies and golden sunshine all along the way..."
| psyclobe wrote:
| Heineken? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!
|
| Never tripped out harder than watching Blue Velvet one lonely
| night.
|
| Also Twin Peaks, so trippy.
|
| A true legend RIP
| jeffwask wrote:
| Sad day for film fans and a sad day for Phillip Morris
| stockholders.
| sgt wrote:
| Do you think the LA wildfires and poor air quality accelerated
| his death? He had emfysemia
| micromacrofoot wrote:
| Probably didn't help, but the man had been smoking since he
| was 8 years old and was at the point where he needed
| supplemental oxygen just to walk.
| whism wrote:
| One of the greats
| themadturk wrote:
| Mulholland Drive is one of my all-time favorites. A genius
| director!
| calebm wrote:
| Same.
| loevborg wrote:
| Yes for me it's a tie between Mulholland Drive and Lost
| Highway. I also prefer Mulholland drive.
|
| The news makes me sad, I feel like I've lost a friend, even
| though I never met Lynch.
| throw_pm23 wrote:
| My favorite is Lost Highway. And here's what I think it is
| "about": unbearable remorse.
| Trasmatta wrote:
| Lynch's ability to make the most unnerving scenes I've ever
| seen was incredible. And he ostensibly wasn't even making
| horror movies. Something about this scene (and so many
| others): triggers something deep in my soul:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZowK0NAvig
| sitkack wrote:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKd2YldRvB8
| ilamont wrote:
| It's amazing how some of the smaller, passing shots from his
| films stick with you. I haven't seen _Elephant Man_ for decades
| but the scene at the beginning when he 's at a freak show and his
| handler is forcing him to turn around for the audience still
| haunts me. Same for many of the scenes in _Wild At Heart_.
| dfxm12 wrote:
| He saved a lot of great dialog for himself: "I told all your
| colleagues, those clown comics, to fix their hearts or die".
|
| RIP.
| doom2 wrote:
| That this was specifically about telling transphobes to knock
| it off feels very relevant in the current moment.
| ryanmcbride wrote:
| David Lynch has been my favorite director and one of my favorite
| people for most of my life. His work and outlook has influenced
| almost everything I've ever created. He changed the way I saw the
| world for better. I'm really sincerely going to miss what he
| brought to the world
| dylan604 wrote:
| What he brought to the world isn't leaving. What he could have
| brought will never be experienced though.
| Dansvidania wrote:
| I am going to miss him. Not only his art but his personality.
|
| We need that kind of crazy.
| karim79 wrote:
| Absolutely. He's my favourite artist, and for me no one else
| comes close. R.I.P Mr. Lynch.
| handfuloflight wrote:
| "My childhood was elegant homes, tree-lined streets, the milkman,
| building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket
| fences, green grass, cherry trees. Middle America as it's
| supposed to be. But on the cherry tree there's this pitch oozing
| out - some black, some yellow, and millions of red ants crawling
| all over it. I discovered that if one looks a little closer at
| this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
| Because I grew up in a perfect world, other things were a
| contrast."
|
| David Lynch
| ryandrake wrote:
| Reminiscent of the opening scene of _Blue Velvet_.
| PittleyDunkin wrote:
| I find it interesting how much Ebert hated that movie. I'm
| not sure how I feel about it myself, tbh, but I am certain I
| don't have his conviction to state it clearly and
| unambiguously. The film certainly made me feel things no
| other movie has.
| havblue wrote:
| I think if you're giving original opinions about movies it
| guarantees that you're going to be on the wrong side of
| history eventually. His reviews aren't any less interesting
| even when you disagree with him.
| PittleyDunkin wrote:
| I'm not really convinced he's on "the wrong side"--we're
| entitled to strong opinions about the role of film in
| society and this is either value-oriented or subjective.
| But I emphatically do admire his willingness to stake his
| claim without ambiguity.
|
| > His reviews aren't any less interesting even when you
| disagree with him.
|
| 100%
| ddellacosta wrote:
| Agreed. I disagree pretty vehemently with him wrt Blue
| Velvet but he's one of the few reviewers I trust(ed)
| adamc wrote:
| I'm with Ebert, I hated it. Not because it wasn't
| effective. It was convincing, but such a bad experience
| I'll never watch it again.
| ekianjo wrote:
| It certainly changes how you feel about listening to Mr
| sandman
| hinkley wrote:
| Man I wonder if he knew what the neighbors got up to when their
| spouses were out of town.
| femiagbabiaka wrote:
| he made Twin Peaks, he definitely knew
| psb217 wrote:
| "I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this
| beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath." --
| Well, he ain't just talking about literal ants...
| pyuser583 wrote:
| I think he was talking about literal ants.
|
| David Lynch's work was never symbolic. You only ever got
| what was right in front of you.
|
| The moment you start seeing symbols in his work, you know
| you're viewing it wrong.
|
| Edit: Lynch's YT channel is filled with weather reports and
| random numbers. How much more anti-symbolic can you get?
| freejazz wrote:
| "Did I ever tell you that this here jacket represents a
| symbol of my individuality and my belief in personal
| freedom?"
| nathcd wrote:
| "What a heavy load Einstein must've had. Fuckin' morons,
| everywhere."
|
| David Lynch
| becquerel wrote:
| "On your fucking telephone. Get real!"
| sk11001 wrote:
| I have never seen a single one of his movies but I love
| watching interviews with him, he had an amazing presence and
| so much energy.
| gordon_freeman wrote:
| Start with "Eraserhead" and then go from there. Surreal is
| the word I associate with his movies and tv show (Twin
| Peaks) and I absolutely love watching such movies!
| jimbob45 wrote:
| Dune or Twin Peaks are probably going to be more
| accessible than anything else.
|
| For Eraserhead, I understand the metaphor of how
| parenting can be larger-than-life and terrifying and I
| see how Eraserhead was trying to embody that but I very
| much didn't appreciate the highly pessimistic ending.
| It's an early movie that would have benefited immensely
| from an alternate ending on its DVD.
| gordon_freeman wrote:
| The beauty of Lynch films is that everyone can interpret
| it in their own way!
| DrillShopper wrote:
| I know what you're trying to say, but that's also true of
| every other movie.
| Trasmatta wrote:
| I think there's a lot more to Eraserhead than that! I
| also don't really see the ending as pessimistic
| personally.
|
| Lynch: "Believe it or not, Eraserhead is my most
| spiritual film."
|
| Lean: "Elaborate on that?"
|
| Lynch: "No, I wont. No one sees it."
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjoMEw2RYlA
| msabalau wrote:
| The Straight Story is almost certainly his most
| accessible film, while also very focused on themes that
| he cares about.
|
| It isn't the elusive puzzle that many cinephiles value in
| his work, but it is clearly a Lynch film, even if it's
| not a stereotypical one.
| retinaros wrote:
| actually it is an elusive puzzle :D https://www.youtube.c
| om/watch?v=Wa16cd5zAuc&ab_channel=KyleL...
| saijanai wrote:
| His most mainstream work is _The Elephant Man_ ,
| commissioned by Mel Brooks.
| Trasmatta wrote:
| > Surreal is the word I associate with his movies and tv
| show
|
| And his style of surrealism has been so influential that
| it has its own term: Lynchian!
| epolanski wrote:
| Season 3 Twin Peaks is peak "I don't know what am I
| looking at".
| Lio wrote:
| When it first came out I was so desperate to see it I
| watched the first episode twice without realising.
|
| I spent the whole time trying to work out what was
| different between the "two".
|
| I mean, it's exactly the sort of thing he would do and I
| still loved it.
|
| Magic!
| ruthmarx wrote:
| It's at least a third watching one of Kyle MacLachlan's
| characters walking around with brain damage.
|
| I liked the season after a rewatch but the Dougie stuff
| is still tedious.
| MisterTea wrote:
| The Dougie stuff was silly fun. Cherry pie
| kingstoned wrote:
| When people say "surreal" they mean "real", it's just
| most of your life is not very real, just repetition and
| routine. - Norm Macdonald
| scoofy wrote:
| Eraserhead is borderline unwatchable. I love David Lynch,
| sort of, but without telling people that they're about to
| sit down and watch an hour-and-a-half of what is
| effectively an unwatchable piece of avant-garde cinema,
| then they're not going to be able to appreciate it.
|
| There is nothing worse than getting excited to see a
| famous director's debut film, thinking you're going to
| have a good time, and then getting Eraserhead.
| tjakab wrote:
| Eraserhead is highly watchable, but the first time you
| see it, it's best to just experience it without trying to
| process it too much. The nuance comes through on repeat
| viewings.
| scoofy wrote:
| >Eraserhead is highly watchable
|
| It is a film explicitly designed to be unpleasant. This
| may be artistically interesting, but it's certainly no
| going to appeal to most people.
| labster wrote:
| I rented Eraserhead and watched with some friends in
| college. I loved it, and so did the other Lynch fan. The
| other two, well, the first words spoken over the credits
| were "What the actual fuck was that?" Let's just say it's
| a divisive film.
| monophonica wrote:
| If someone is not into art films, to not start with Twin
| Peaks is absolutely insane to me.
|
| First two seasons of Twin Peaks are his masterpiece IMO
| and his most watchable.
|
| Those are some of the best characters of any film/tv show
| ever.
| mtalantikite wrote:
| I'd personally say try Mulholland Drive first.
| Keyframe wrote:
| oh boy. I'd understand if you said to try Mullholland
| Drive first, second, and third and then go from there.
| ddellacosta wrote:
| Yes this may be my favorite of his films, and I love
| pretty much everything he's done
| adamc wrote:
| Yes. Definitely his best.
| Triphibian wrote:
| I'm gonna say start with Blue Velvet. It still has the
| backbone of a classical noir, but it is completely run
| through with the character of his work. Mulholland Drive
| reflects the apex of his vision and talents, but there's a
| learning curve to appreciating it.
| signalToNose wrote:
| Wild at heart. Very approachable, but gory and brutal.
| The angst seep trough
| mortenjorck wrote:
| On the other end, save Inland Empire for after you've
| seen a lot of his filmography and are in the mood for a
| challenge.
|
| I wouldn't call it his best work, but it is Lynch at his
| most singular and uncompromising.
| adamc wrote:
| Nooooo, not Blue Velvet. That's on my "never watch again"
| list, because the people in it are so creepy I wanted to
| just go buy a million guns afterwards.
| Vetch wrote:
| I'm also ashamed to say I've also never seen any of his
| movies and TV series but this still hits hard because of
| his influence on some my most cherished fictional
| properties. These are Alan Wake/Control, Silent Hill 1&2,
| Returnal and Disco Elysium.
|
| Actually, his influence on how surrealist fiction is
| presented throughout all media cannot be understated. I was
| surprised to read even the original Zelda has him as an
| influence. Majora's Mask does feel particularly Lynchian.
|
| It would not surprise me if the Souls games and at least
| the later Berserks (late 90s/early 2000s forward) were
| either directly or 1-step indirectly influenced by Lynch.
| wdbbdw wrote:
| I think it was less the original Zelda than it was Link's
| Awakening that had the Lynch influence, specifically
| influence by Twin Peaks
|
| https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/12/feature_how_dav
| id_...
| _hzw wrote:
| An (un)obvious connection between Eraserhead and
| Bloodborne (spoiler!):
|
| https://www.reddit.com/r/bloodborne/comments/xgu21c/erase
| rhe...
| geophile wrote:
| Gentle intro: Rabbits, on youtube.
| WorldMaker wrote:
| Also on YouTube: "David Lynch Cooks Quinoa". It's a short
| film that is both nothing like his films/TV and
| everything like his films/TV. It's that "cooking podcast"
| or "recipe blog" that's a meandering journey through life
| and maybe has some bon mots about living, but also
| includes a recipe because it does. Like watching a
| beloved elderly relative do something normal in the
| kitchen, but also moody and in black and white.
| intellectronica wrote:
| If you only watch one, I think Fire Walk With Me is the
| most representative. If you like it, there's a lot more to
| explore. If not, then maybe Lynch isn't your thing.
| pesus wrote:
| Great movie, but I'm not sure I would've enjoyed it as
| much if I hadn't already watched Twin Peaks.
| astrange wrote:
| I think that "fire walk with me" poem is so clunky I've
| refused to watch anything he's ever made.
| renox wrote:
| Mmm not a great quote..
| gatkinso wrote:
| the brighter the light, the deeper the shadows
| maxglute wrote:
| Wish he had a bill burr rant or asmr to sleep channel. There is
| not enough public recordings of lynch talking.
| officeplant wrote:
| You could merge his daily weather updates into a long
| rambling video.
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| https://archive.today/ySju3
|
| https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000186/
| dukeofdoom wrote:
| This video of him raging against the corporate machine, really
| humanizes him here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5kaMQCbKn4
| leotravis10 wrote:
| Time to rewatch most of his films this weekend, a true visionary
| that we lost today and his contributions will live on forever.
| pelagicAustral wrote:
| Oh man! that's depressing... I always remember the appearances he
| made on "Louie", as a talent agent... He was so funny, I choose
| to believe that he wasn't acting at all.
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlEJbs02wAM
| xanderlewis wrote:
| Oh! Thanks for reminding me why his face is so familiar.
|
| (I'm not someone who knows anything about film...)
| f00l82 wrote:
| A Facebook post? Gross
| hestefisk wrote:
| https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/16/david-lynch-twi...
| g-b-r wrote:
| So sad
|
| Among everything else, he made me discover one of my favourite
| bands, Au Revoir Simone
| tanseydavid wrote:
| Thanks for sharing. TIL that there's a band named after a quote
| in "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure".
| sergiotapia wrote:
| Haven't seen a director before or since with such a grasp of
| mystery and command of dreamlike sequences. The world lost one of
| the great directors of our time.
| bena wrote:
| David Lynch embodies the quote from Thelonious Monk: "The genius
| is the one most like himself."
|
| No matter what he did, no matter what you think of his works, he
| never compromised on being himself.
| saucymew wrote:
| Having just read Lynch's Catching Big Fish, two quotes stood out
| to me:
|
| "There's safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee
| or your milk shake, and you can go off into strange dark areas,
| and always come back to the safety of the diner. "
|
| "The light can make all the difference in a film, even in a
| character. I love seeing people come out of darkness."
|
| What an interesting man. RIP.
| Frummy wrote:
| He said something like, in speaking with a therapist, "if i get
| therapy, is there a risk i'll lose my creativity?", and she said
| "yes". So he didn't take it if i recall, and did this
| transcendental meditation thing instead. That's someone who loves
| his art.
| calebio wrote:
| 100%. As he's described it himself, he was certainly dedicated
| to the art life.
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| NYT Obit https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/movies/david-lynch-
| dead.h...
| tanseydavid wrote:
| Wow -- I am shocked to read this news.
|
| I don't consider too many people to be personal heroes but I did
| think of David Lynch in this way.
|
| Rest in peace. Thank you for your creative output and your mad-
| passion for film and meditation.
| fumeux_fume wrote:
| RIP to a legend. I remember renting the world's worst quality VHS
| tapes of Twin Peaks before the DVD remaster came out, but loving
| every second of it (excluding the James and Donna duet of
| course). Coincidentally, I'm on a road trip across the state and
| made plans to stop at Tweede's for lunch.
| slowhadoken wrote:
| I was thinking of him last night after watching an old David
| Foster Wallace interview. Lynch was one of a kind.
| aidenn0 wrote:
| I will eat quinoa for dinner tonight in his honor.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSP-ewdJYJc
| miguelxpn wrote:
| The third season of Twin Peaks is the best piece of television I
| ever watched. Rest in peace, you will be missed.
| panzerboiler wrote:
| Today no cinema.
| gordon_freeman wrote:
| David Lynch was a giant in film directing with his unique vision
| and surreal style and he gave us so many great movies. But more
| importantly I feel that he inspired so many modern movie
| directors such as Ari Aster and Yorgos Lanthimos to make movies
| like that. I put Lynch in the same category of greatness as
| Kubrick and Tarkovsky. True genius!
| Berowne wrote:
| Lynch anecdote (you can find it on YouTube). Kubrick invited
| some movie people to see his favorite film (no qualifiers)
| 'Eraserhead'
| Lerc wrote:
| Somedays I long for a world where everyone has a touch more of
| the mad creativity he had.
|
| Perhaps we do and we just need to nurture it more.
|
| Also the Mr Plow-ish of all playstation advertisements.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Laf9vpJMDjA
| spokaneplumb wrote:
| Good lord. He put a _bunch_ of things in that that he 'd use in
| Twin Peaks: The Return. Wild.
| julienchastang wrote:
| Very sad. I had the privilege of watching the late Roger Ebert
| deconstruct "Mulholland Drive" at the Conference on World Affairs
| at the University of Colorado during the daily Cinema
| Interruptus. Each day for a week, we spent an hour or two
| analyzing the film, with anyone in the audience able to shout
| "stop" to pause the screening and discuss any aspect of the movie
| with Ebert. His insights and thoughtful manner of speaking about
| film left a lasting impression on me. RIP.
| loevborg wrote:
| I'm surprised, sad. Maybe the last of the big directors,
| certainly my favorite.
|
| Here's Lynch making quinoa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSP-
| ewdJYJc&ab_channel=scayn...
| superposeur wrote:
| Ha ha, first time I've seen another reference to this! Back in
| the day, I got such a kick out of his description that I began
| imitating it myself, calling it my "David Lynch Special" dish.
| Trasmatta wrote:
| I'm so grateful he was able to make Twin Peaks: The Return before
| he passed. It's one of the most brilliant and moving pieces of
| fiction I've ever experienced. If they had started it just a few
| years later it may have never been finished.
| spokaneplumb wrote:
| Some of the people who returned for it died not long after it
| wrapped. The "Log Lady" might have died before it wrapped,
| even, can't recall. Miguel Ferrer wasn't around much longer.
| Even with Lynch living a good while past it, it'd have been far
| more limited production if it'd started even a couple years
| after it did. They already had to do without Bowie and a few
| others that it seems Lynch might have liked to use (given what
| he did with the season), like Frank Silva (BOB) of course, and
| notably Don Davis (Major Garland Briggs).
| Trasmatta wrote:
| Wow, what a great point. The Return actually being created is
| a miracle in so many ways.
|
| And the fact that it actually was released 25 years after
| Laura said "I'll see you in 25 years"? I'm not a spiritual
| person, but it does feel like the universe wanted that show
| to be made!
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL57-9171pk
| mrandish wrote:
| > The "Log Lady" might have died before it wrapped
|
| Yes, she was terminally ill and in hospice care. Lynch moved
| up the filming of her scenes as well as writing the part so
| she wouldn't need to travel. The fans really embraced her in
| the years after the original show aired, inviting her to
| conventions, etc. She wanted to finish her character's role
| for the fans before she died.
| mrandish wrote:
| Yes, I came here just to post this. I loved Twin Peaks and was
| devastated when it was canceled after the second season. It was
| just too deep and cerebral for early 90s prime time TV. But I
| somehow never even heard about Twin Peaks: The Return in 2018
| because it was only on Showtime and I was busy with life stuff
| at the time.
|
| Discovering it existed and watching it a couple years ago was
| such an awesome experience.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Peaks_season_3
| almostdeadguy wrote:
| Like most reboots/long awaited sequels I was very skeptical of
| it and it absolutely blew my mind. It's one of the most
| beautifully shot and hallucinatory TV series I've ever seen. I
| think it's his best work.
| spacechild1 wrote:
| It has always been on my list, but I haven't watched it yet.
| Thanks for the reminder!
| jncfhnb wrote:
| Return was a phenomenal mix of things. It didn't match the vibe
| of the original too often, and when it did it was probably
| weaker. But overall? Some of the best television.
|
| The Mitchum (sp?) brothers arc evokes so much joy it's just
| hilarious.
| drooopy wrote:
| As pretentious as it may sound, The Return is both my favourite
| movie and my favourite TV show of the past 25 years.
| saijanai wrote:
| Lynch said explicitly that it was best understood as a movie
| in 25 parts, if I recall correctly.
| scoofy wrote:
| I literally just finished The Return two days ago, because the
| Blank Check Podcast, a _very_ long form podcast about
| filmographies that I love, is covering Lynch.
|
| The fact that The Return exists at all is amazing. The fact
| that it is not what you expected or wanted is really
| compelling. I absolutely loved it, even if I honestly have no
| idea what much of it means. Lynch's ability to use pacing --
| lingering on a scene -- to cause unease is really something
| special.
|
| https://www.blankcheckpod.com/
| roiboosxh wrote:
| Today, no movies...
| agentcooper wrote:
| Terribly sad. His movies were a significant discovery for me and
| are now forever in my heart.
| sitkack wrote:
| I saw Dune in the theater when I 9, I had no concept of who DL
| was at the time. But by the time I was in my teens ad saw
| Eraserhead and Twin Peaks it all gelled into the kind of creative
| breadth that one person could accomplish.
|
| The world is so much better for having been visited by DL.
|
| His bit with the Cow on median in Hollywood is hilarious.
| onosendai wrote:
| I'm incredibly saddened by his passing away, even if it was
| expected given the recent decline of his health.
|
| I'm not going to touch on his films, which are all special and
| definitely worth watching, but if anyone who didn't know him
| wants a primer on his complex, sometimes surreal, but I think
| ultimately endearing personality, then this is a nice
| introduction:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqZpi8zAqe0
| saijanai wrote:
| He knew he was about to die. He sent this to his Foundation's
| fundraiser last year:
|
| https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlynch/comments/1fg3npu/david_l...
|
| His last words were: ______
|
| * _May everyone be happy._
|
| _May everyone be free of disease._
|
| _May auspiciousness be seen everywhere._
|
| _May suffering belong to no-one._
|
| _Peace._
|
| _Jai guru dev_
|
| ________
| karaokeyoga wrote:
| I loved his sense of humor.
| squidsoup wrote:
| Farewell eagle scout from Missoula, Montana.
| gyre007 wrote:
| I can't think of a director in the new generation of movie
| directors who are as original as most of the pieces made by DL.
| RIP, maestro!
| Lio wrote:
| This makes me sad the same way that the death of David Bowie did.
|
| _"You've been seen associating with chickens Jack!"_
|
| Without David Lynch the world is just a little bit duller today.
| :(
| pmarreck wrote:
| This is an odd coincidence only because I've been stuck on
| playing https://soundcloud.com/overwerk/beyond today, which
| culminates in a sample from a Twin Peaks episode:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc_6kDHWsEM (it's the "I've been
| looking out beyond the edge of the board" scene)
| frereubu wrote:
| I think this is one of those moments where the phrase "don't cry
| because it's over, smile because it happened" feels appropriate
| given his rich body of work.
| arpa wrote:
| "Today, no music"
| UncleSlacky wrote:
| "Don't you think when people tell you you're allowed to do
| whatever you want as long as it's not sexually X-rated that they
| should stand behind their word and show your cow?"
|
| - David Lynch
| neycoda wrote:
| Awww We knew the day would come. What a legend of a man and
| artist. A recent living Dali, but far more underappreciated (even
| by those who loved him and didn't quite understand what his art
| was saying). I only hope to see more like him.
| retinaros wrote:
| I was young when dune was released and a big fan of herbert
| books. there was also star wars that ive seen at the same time.
| Dune is still today to me one of the great SF movies and I count
| a very few I really love (cloud atlas is another more recent one,
| speed racer too).
|
| All his weirder movies were great experiences but my favorite
| ever Lynch movie is the Straight Story. such a perfect beautiful
| movie. I loved badalamenti music as well:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCzAetSFRC8&ab_channel=amast...
|
| I always thought writing and directing a movie of pure kindness
| and making it interesting as a piece of great art was the real
| mark of genius.
| mtraven wrote:
| "You know about death...that it's just a change, not an end." -
| The Log Lady
| UniverseHacker wrote:
| Just when his work seemed like it was about to come back around
| and start to make sense, he would throw you for another loop that
| was the furthest thing from making any sense- and as a result
| could consistently create a set of childlike wonder, curiosity,
| and awe that are rarely experienced by adults nowadays.
|
| Like a zen koan, the unexplainably of it could consistently shock
| the viewer back into experiencing the entire breadth of human
| emotion and experience that is outside of rational understanding.
|
| David Lynch's work was mind blowingly creative and original work
| in a sea of boring media made by committees trying to extract a
| little more profit from the same few banal formulas over and
| over.
|
| I'm shocked and grateful he was able to fund and produce things
| that were so weird and fascinating. The owls are not what they
| seem.
| sharkweek wrote:
| The late David Foster Wallace said one of the only directors he
| found interesting was David Lynch.
|
| https://youtu.be/C0Cvtu2FfGw?si=1_wk8fPMeeHYLrxl
|
| I love that DFW wrote an essay about Lost Highway and used the
| term "Lynchian" (something horrific sitting right next to
| something mundane in a scene).
|
| Charlie Rose asked Lynch about the phrase and didn't really know
| how to respond.
|
| Rose then brings this up with DFW who kinda chuckles and implies
| that was what he would expect.
|
| Two extremely talented and intelligent creatives, but where DFW
| cared quite a bit how he was perceived, I don't think Lynch ever
| gave a shit.
|
| Lynch was on another plane of creativity and I'm not sure he even
| really knew it. He just did what he wanted to do (except for the
| original Dune film...)and let people take away from it what they
| might.
|
| I honestly cant say I "enjoy" Lynch films but I will be the first
| to admit there is heart and soul poured into them by a genius.
| saijanai wrote:
| David Lynch's final message to the world:
|
| https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlynch/comments/1fg3npu/david_l...
|
| _____
|
| May everyone be happy. May everyone be free of disease. May
| auspiciousness be seen everywhere. May suffering belong to no-
| one. Peace. Jai guru dev __________
|
| .
|
| RIP David Lynch, 20 January 1946 - 16 January 2025
| saijanai wrote:
| David Lynch's final message to the world, a video he sent to a
| fundraiser for his foundation last year:
|
| https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlynch/comments/1fg3npu/david_l...
|
| ___________
|
| May everyone be happy. May everyone be free of disease. May
| auspiciousness be seen everywhere. May suffering belong to no-
| one. Peace. Jai guru dev
|
| _______
|
| RIP David Lynch, 20 January 1946 - 16 January 2025
| jncfhnb wrote:
| I've slowly become aware, over time, that David Lynch and David
| Bowie seemed to be the social bridge that was secretly connecting
| all of the artists I like across seemingly every medium. Like an
| erdos number for these two davids that seemed to drive good
| outcomes
| ilvez wrote:
| No hay banda!
| ndrake wrote:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTrTtzTQrv0
| saijanai wrote:
| For David Lynch, his work with his foundation was the most
| important thing he did.
|
| .
|
| * [Here's the CEO of the David Lynch Foundation receiving the
| thanks of the Herndon, Virginia police department for teaching
| them TM for free:](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikMi0xqS8fU)
|
| * Here's David Lynch chatting with President of Ukraine, Petro
| Poroshenko, about teaching Ukrainian 100,000 veterans TM to help
| them with their
| PTSD.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf7-mErKWlc)
|
| * [Here's David Lynch meditating with 5,000 kids that his
| Foundation taught TM for free to in
| Brazil.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJD-M2FpKNU)
|
| * [Here's Smithsonian Magazine's take on the David
| LynchFoundation (they gave him an award as Innovator of the Year
| for the work of his
| Foundation)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iBaJ2K7JOo)
|
| * [David Lynch discussing the work of his
| Foundation.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxhkd_fZUTE)
|
| * [Excerpts from the first David Lynch Foundation benefit concert
| (billed as "the Beatles Reunion concert by the press as it was
| headlined by Sir Paul and Sir
| Ringo)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJg5mKuCh7A)
|
| * [Saving the disposable
| ones](https://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-
| online/pl...) -- a David Lynch Foundation. documentary about the
| work of Father Gabriel Mejia, a Roman Catholic priest whose
| Foundation has rescued 40,000 child prostitutes over the past 2
| decades and taught them TM as therapy for PTSD.
|
| * [Impacting Children's Health Through Meditation
| Globally](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVCQJl1XVmg&t=230s) -
| the David Lynch Foundation's invited presentation at the Vatican
| about their work.
|
| For more info, see: [The David Lynch
| Foundation](http://www.davidlynchfoundation.org) and [Fundacion
| David Lynch de America Latina](https://fundaciondavidlynch.org)
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