Mulholland Drive is one of my all-time favorites. A genius director!
David Lynch has died
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#42Sad 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?
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.
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The first season is a masterpiece. Second season goes off the rails and loses direction fairly early on
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.
Part 8 of season 3 left a deep impression on me. I still think about it regularly.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Twin Peaks is the best TV show ever made
The first season is a masterpiece. Second season goes off the rails and loses direction fairly early on
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.
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#45It'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.
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#46He saved a lot of great dialog for himself: "I told all your colleagues, those clown comics, to fix their hearts or die".
RIP.
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#47Love Twin Peaks. Puget Sound resident here. I can see the big driftwood log Laura Palmer was found next to from my window.
Twin Peaks was delightfully weird. It was the sole reason I bought a TV, believe it or not.
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#48David 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
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#49David 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
What he brought to the world isn't leaving. What he could have brought will never be experienced though.
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#50"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