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Re: David Lynch

#452 Post by beamish13 » Mon Oct 19, 2015 12:01 pm

The press release he sent out is hilarious. "There's a lot of bullshit out on the internet about me". Wonder what his 4 ex-wives will say, too

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#453 Post by Jean-Luc Garbo » Mon Oct 19, 2015 11:45 pm

Weird - I never knew that he and Mary Sweeney had married however briefly. I'd just assumed it'd stayed a long-term partnership. Whatever his own intentions for writing now, I'd look forward to the book just for his take on being in the industry for so long.

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#454 Post by sir_luke » Wed Oct 28, 2015 8:08 pm

The Film Society at Lincoln Center is putting on a very interesting Lynch/Rivette dual retrospective, all on 35mm. Tickets go on sale 11/24.

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#455 Post by Roger Ryan » Thu Oct 29, 2015 8:23 am

sir_luke wrote:The Film Society at Lincoln Center is putting on a very interesting Lynch/Rivette dual retrospective, all on 35mm. Tickets go on sale 11/24.
Very intriguing and the synopsis/comparisons support the idea. However, calling Wild at Heart "a 'road movie' before the term existed" is way off; the term had been in use long before 1990.

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#456 Post by Zot! » Thu Oct 29, 2015 10:19 am

Roger Ryan wrote: However, calling Wild at Heart "a 'road movie' before the term existed" is way off; the term had been in use long before 1990.
particularly humorous because the concurrent Wenders retro's capsule for his 1974 film, Alice in the Cities also uses "road movie" as if it was some sort of mark of quality.
Wenders refers to this as his first film, because it was here that he discovered the genre of the road movie.

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Re: David Lynch

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#459 Post by Minkin » Sat Mar 05, 2016 2:11 am

I'd be willing to wager a hefty sum that Criterion was responsible for the restoration (does MGM even restore films anymore?) - and that a blu is forthcoming.

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#460 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Sat Mar 05, 2016 2:23 am

If that's the case I wonder if the Fox disc will go OOP, and the potential Criterion will retain most of if not all the extras. I guess since The Graduate has just come out and with Strangelove forthcoming, Criterion might have gone back on the earlier stance of not wanting to release films with already existing decent special editions out.

Furthermore, I'm wondering how far the relationship will go with Lynch, and that if possibly we'll get most of his other work (I highly doubt he'd want anything to do with a Dune Criterion, and Fire Walk With Me is already part of the Twin Peaks box set). We live in interesting times.

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Re: David Lynch

#461 Post by Minkin » Sat Mar 05, 2016 2:32 am

They must 100% have at least one other Lynch film planned as they didn't include the Dumbland (and other) shorts to their Mulholland Drive release. Elephant Man (WB's Paramount deal ended recently), Blue Velvet (unreleased laserdisc title), Inland Empire, and Wild at Heart (TT's license expires(d)) are all highly likely at this point.

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#462 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Sat Mar 05, 2016 2:41 am

Lost Highway has got to be one too because it's a Universal title and I don't think it's something they'd want to hang on to. I wonder if The Straight Story is any possibility at all because I'd have to imagine it's about just as much a priority for Disney, though Criterion has a more direct relationship with Universal at this point.

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#463 Post by jindianajonz » Sun Oct 30, 2016 6:31 pm

I just noticed this thread is the listed in the directors index. Would a kind mod be interested in adding it for ease of access?

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#464 Post by mfunk9786 » Sun Oct 30, 2016 8:29 pm

jindianajonz wrote:I just noticed this thread is the listed in the directors index. Would a kind mod be interested in adding it for ease of access?
Done.

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#466 Post by domino harvey » Fri Feb 03, 2017 2:50 pm

Tangentially related to the topic, perhaps, but this is a real trading card put out by Topps in 1992. Hard to imagine this idea was okayed only 25 years ago

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#467 Post by PfR73 » Fri Feb 03, 2017 5:17 pm

Hopefully Dreamworks can bring the Trash Can Trolls into the inevitable sequel...

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Re: David Lynch

#470 Post by MoonlitKnight » Fri May 05, 2017 11:02 pm

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

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#471 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Fri May 05, 2017 11:26 pm

He also said that he'd never shoot on film again too. And with the recent ascension of independent distributors abound, I'm sure it wouldn't be as hard for him to get financed for something again. Especially if the show generates the kind of positive reaction that would warrant proper financing for him again.

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Re: David Lynch

#472 Post by Forrest Taft » Sat May 06, 2017 9:20 am

He also edited Lost Highway on film, and said at the time that he'd never edit a movie digitally, so he's certainly changed his mind before. The article seems to suggest that the poor performance of Inland Empire is the reason, which is odd, because it's by far his most cryptic and least accessible movie. And didn't he handle the US distribution himself? If you want your movie to find it's audience, there are probably more effective means of achieving that than sitting on a lawn somewhere in LA with a cow. I'm pretty sure there are distributers in the US that could have done more for the film.

I was hoping he'd come full circle after the new TP season, and finally make Ronnie Rocket. Pretty sure he talked about doing that as recently as a few years ago.

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#473 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Sat May 06, 2017 12:51 pm

On the other hand, it's not difficult to see why the idea of approaching his ideas in the longer format television provides (especially compared to the environment now against the way it was in the early 90's) is obviously much more appealing to him.

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Re: David Lynch

#474 Post by R0lf » Sat May 06, 2017 11:24 pm

RobertAltman wrote:He also edited Lost Highway on film, and said at the time that he'd never edit a movie digitally, so he's certainly changed his mind before. The article seems to suggest that the poor performance of Inland Empire is the reason, which is odd, because it's by far his most cryptic and least accessible movie. And didn't he handle the US distribution himself? If you want your movie to find it's audience, there are probably more effective means of achieving that than sitting on a lawn somewhere in LA with a cow. I'm pretty sure there are distributers in the US that could have done more for the film.

I was hoping he'd come full circle after the new TP season, and finally make Ronnie Rocket. Pretty sure he talked about doing that as recently as a few years ago.
INLAND EMPIRE was dropped by its US distributor which is why Lynch did it himself and also the more likely reason he decided not to make movies anymore.

This is also old news. Lynch has been saying he won't make movies again for most of this decade.

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Re: David Lynch

#475 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Mon May 22, 2017 2:24 pm

Watched The Straight Story last week. Farnsworth in it reminds me a little of my grandpa, but looks almost like my mother's husband right now. Contemplating whether or not showing this to her would be a good idea. Just on a pure visceral level, it reminds me of the Midwest I'd see outside the car window on long road trips as a kid. The people Alvin run into on his journey feel like they could have been people I'd known of growing up too.

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