I never saw the straight story. That was his first movie after coming out of the TM closet I believe. I remember them announcing that Lynch was going to be promoting TM and I suggested they do a season of his films on the Marshy Channel. They thought it was a great idea.
I had to break it to them gently that most of his stuff is a twisted sexual nightmare but i still think it would counterbalance the horror of Bevan and the Raja's nicely. In fact I originally I thought he might have infiltrated the TMO to get some ideas for a particularly odd movie, that would be cool. Then I realised he was serious and predicted that he wouldn't make another shocker like Blue Velvet to avoid offending the sattvic TB's. Now I think all his "surreal" stuff since then has been pretentious drivel. He's either past it or all that TM has dulled his creativity over the years, instead of the opposite which is what he usually claims. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote : salyavin, imo Lynch's The Straight Story is also wonderful though very different than Elephant Man, but both having an underlying, non sacharine sweetness. On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 3:22 AM, salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : Color me not impressed by either the "music" or the video. This is the sort of stuff my friends in film school were doing in 1969. It's adolescent poseur stuff. I didn't get as far as watching the video. I think DL had some good ideas in the early days but his stuff seems really lazy now. In inland empire he'd have a conversation going on between two characters and someone will walk past in the background with a fish mask on. Yeah, it's technically surreal but so what? It isn't like he's making any clever points about the human unconscious , it's all just art for arts sake. And Mulholland Drive was a wasted opportunity IMO, all those great actors and he decided to "leave it up to the viewer to decide which bits were real or not" That sort of laziness makes even Eraserhead feel really shallow to me now. I bet Elephant Man is still good though, but that's about it. Rant over. "Penny Dreadful" is much better, and it's just television. :-) Yes. I'm looking forward to that one. From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 8:34 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Watch Dav id Lynch’s hypnoti c new video --In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <LEnglish5@...> wrote : He says uniformly blissful from the very first one. Would he be such an evangelist if he knew what everyone else experienced? L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote : One wonder if this is what David Lynch's meditations are like? :-D On 04/28/2014 02:12 PM, nablusoss1008 wrote: Mindy Jones is haunted by Wicker Man-esque masked figures in Moby’s ‘reversion’ of ‘The Big Dream’ Watch David Lynch’s hypnotic new video http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/19712/1/watch-david-lynch-s-hypnotic-new-video http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/19712/1/watch-david-lynch-s-hypnotic-new-video Watch David Lynch’s hypnotic new video Mindy Jones is haunted by Wicker Man-esque masked figures in Moby’s ‘reversion’ of ‘The Big Dream’ View on www.dazeddigital.com http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/19712/1/watch-david-lynch-s-hypnotic-new-video Preview by Yahoo
