David Lynch Dies Aged 78

[beef]

I was told that he had to evacuate from his house due to the fires LA and his health rapidly declined.

 

[Zamora]

Not unexpected but very sad to hear. I'm going to miss his crazy interviews, him and John Waters really elevated those into an art form.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

Saw this picture of him (taken in 2018) and thought it was really cool.

 

[litup]

I was just in North Bend, WA a couple weeks ago and made sure to stop by the diner from Twin Peaks.

 

[wyfbane]

That lesbian scene in Muholland Dr was a key player in my solo love life back in the VHS days. RIP buddy.

 

[Val]

David Lynch’s Dune in some ways was closer to the book than any remake of it.

Imagine if they used his cut and not the studio cut

 

[Val]

There's no one director who's way above all others. But I'll give you a list of directors whose work I enjoy, in no particular order:

F. W. Murnau
Abel Gance
Billy Wilder
John Ford
Clint Eastwood
Buster Keaton
Charlie Chaplin
Frank Capra
Howard Hawks
Mitchell Leisen
Ernst Lubitsch
Leo McCarey
Gregory La Cava
Rouben Mamoulian
Harold Lloyd
John Huston
Fritz Lang - who I met when I was in college
Jules Dassin
Robert Siodmak
Orson Welles
Alfred Hitchcock - I own one of his pipes, and when I was a kid, he autographed one of his books for me.
Francis Ford Coppola
Ida Lupino
King Vidor
Victor Fleming
George Cukor
Roberto Rosselini
Akira Kurosawa
Yasujiro Ozu
Sergio Leone
Bernardo Bertolucci
Preston Sturges
René Clair
James Gunn - I did a color treatment of him for season 3 of Harley Quinn
Christopher Nolan
Jon Favreau
David Lean
Elia Kazan
Sydney Pollack

just to name a few...

Nice list sable, but Jon favreau and no Marty?

 

[Val]

Total madman, loved his work. Twin Peaks remains a masterpiece.

Indeed, singular

 

[Val]

Watch the extended cut. It explains more.

Maybe they’ll now release the David lynch cut so we can see the film he made

 

[sablebrush52]

Nice list sable, but Jon favreau and no Marty?

Jeez, everyone’s a critic…

 

[bullet08]

I'm an uncultured redneck. Never seen his movies. But heard a lot from others. RIP.

 

[Val]

Jeez, everyone’s a critic…

Just wondering why you left off ol Marty? I like Jon favreau his movies feel good, but Marty’s got a few masterpieces.

 

[beetlejockey]

Alfred Hitchcock - I own one of his pipes

That's insane! Do you have a picture?

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Blue Velvet and Hoosiers put Dennis Hopper back on the map, IMO, so Lynch should be thanked for his part in that.

Twin Peaks came along at a time when I was way too busy to keep up, and not watching a lot of TV, and I wasn’t into recording “must see” TV so I heard about it, caught a couple of the first season episodes, “Look, it’s the emotional cop from The Rookies”, but it wasn’t something you could just sample, IMO.

Enjoyed a couple of his movies in particular, and he made a real difference as creative person.

 

[Pip'n'Piper]

Jeez, everyone’s a critic…

If you don't move Elia Kazan higher up on that list, oooooh!!

 

[Val]

Hoosiers is a classic! I agree Twin Peaks is a viewing experience like no other, not something you can just watch random episodes of and gain interest.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Twin Peaks is a viewing experience like no other,

Season 3 was really out there.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I'm not really a fan of very many people in entertainment, because if a movie is done well, I don't even think about the actors or directors and such. I really did enjoy Blue Velvet, but the rest of his stuff appealed to me in concept, but I just couldn't watch them. Being artists and quirky in college, we had planned to watch Twin Peaks after hearing all of the hype, but I can't even think of a series that was harder to watch than that. I am still amazed that people watched the whole thing. You are better than me.

The music from his work still intrigues me though.

 

[sablebrush52]

Just wondering why you left off ol Marty? I like Jon favreau his movies feel good, but Marty’s got a few masterpieces.

Marty would have been on the list, but I was getting tired and the old bean stopped producing. Scorsese is a fine choice.

 

[sablebrush52]

That's insane! Do you have a picture?

Somewhere. It just looks like a pipe. A group 3 Dunhill. All of his pipes were small Dunhills.