The greatest of all time in my eyes. The genius of Lynch is in the apparent contradictions - his movies appear so abstract and impenetrable at first yet he bares his soul in his work more than most filmmakers, and spoke with such an incredibly sincerity and clarity at the same time. A lot of surrealist artists lace their work with irony and intentionally try to confuse, but David was deadly serious and his work always boiled down to something very simple and relatable - the human condition. Twin Peaks is the perfect example, it’s a murder mystery where the “who dunnit” is irrelevant, it’s about how this tragic character and her death affected everyone around her. It was always about humanity with Lynch, and that’s why so many relate so strongly to him and his work.
When Twin Peaks was early in production and Sheryl Lee, a local actor with no credits to her name, was cast as Laura Palmer, Lynch quickly recognised that her character was the heart of the story and greatly expanded Palmer's and consequently Lee's role in the series. It's hard to imagine what Twin Peaks would even look like without Sheryl Lee and I think that goes back to the sincerity and humanity that's central to Lynch's art. People often tend to get too hung up on looking for deeper meaning when watching something made by Lynch, when he's always been more concerned with the "how" rather than the "what" or the "why".
@@654jimbob654 I absolutely agree. Laura Palmer becomes such a huge character by the end of season three of Twin Peaks. It's like you've known this woman your whole life. This isn't the "girl's corpse" that is the subject of an important investigation, this is a living person. Diana in Mulholland Drive is the same. I think she's a completely living person.
Always appreciated Mark for flying the Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me flag. It’s my favourite of his films. Absolutely brutal, scary, sad, and overwhelming, but also beautiful and life-affirming.
I can happily report that I saw Fire Walk With Me (1992) on a Saturday night at a great cinema house with a great audience at - of all places - Zuerich Switzerland. What a fabulous, unforgettable, experience to be able to scream out loud with a couple of hundred other transfixed spectators. Thank you David Lynch, it was a dream night.
It's interesting that, in a genre that is sometimes stuck in an arms race of trying to make the goriest or jumpiest films possible, Fire Walk With Me still hangs in the upper echelons of the scariest films ever made without ever needing to lean too hard on graphic violence or traditional scares. FWWM is absolutely terrifying and utterly heartbreaking too in a way that very few other horror films are.
Take a look at this excerpt of Lynch’s Eye of the Duck interview with Marc Cousins. He’s hilarious and profound and I’m not entirely certain if he’s making it all up ruclips.net/video/N-OeCYaZgT4/видео.htmlsi=9tR0GL4__Qin_Lhl
My favourite aspect of David Lynch was despite his films being quite dark they were absolutely never cynical. As a person he had quite a sunny disposition so when you see that in his films it isn’t ironic, I find it very sincere, he knew there was good in life as well as the darkness
Same. I am genuinely sad we'll never see more from him. At least he's left behind a timeless legacy and he did The Return! So grateful for that one! I've found myself introducing people to his work a few times over the years and will most likely continue to in the future.
Thank you for not adding 'commercial failure' when you mentioned Dune. A common theme in many pieces rightly praising David Lynch's amazing filmography is to single out Dune as the outlier, the failure, and I realise Lynch himself was not a fan of the final edit. But I personally loved it and feel it ticks all the surreal, dreamlike and disturbing boxes we want from a Lynch movie. I also love what Denis Villeneuve has done with his adaptations, but to tell that story in 137mins is an impressive feat even if Basil Exposition had to play a lead role. Looking back at his career, I also realised how I enjoyed every single one of his films, and while Mulholland Drive may be the popular choice, I think Blue Velvet and Lost Highway are my favourites. What an amazing body of work. Wish I could still style my hair like Eraserhead out of respect.
it's a small point, i'll grant you, but thank you to simon for saying "died", which seems to be a word that SO many people avoid. this is also just SUCH a nice thing for both to have done.
i was going to do it anyways but lynchs death partly from smoking has spurred me on to quit my own 20 year addiction to tobacco and i have now not bought any for over a week. Anyways im glad he came out an spoke against cigarettes in the end and i will definelty be quitting partly in tribute to him !
@@DRACULAFLOWTHEMUSICMAESTRO that nicotine is a tough withdrawal. If you can, I recommend some thc to get over the hump. ❤️ good luck, you can get over it
I can remember watching twin peaks on bbc2 on Tuesday night with my mother at the age of 11 and have been a huge fan of every part of his work since then ! It was my birthday on the 16th of January and I actually found a copy of mulholland drive special edition at a charity shop ! If I’m honest the sad news has deeply affected me ! David your pure art has touched my soul for decades may you rest in peace and dream eternally!
It genuinely broke my heart when I heard. It is so beautiful that such a singular artist, who made weird, strange, challenging stuff is so universally beloved. Reading Kyle McLachlan's tribute made me burst into tears. I really will miss Mr Lynch, but will be able to feel his influence on this whole world through his work. A true master.
Just started Twin Peaks again, intending to finally finish it beyond the first season this time. Not a big tv series guy, but it’s about time. One of the GOATs.
4:02 I was at that Fire Walk With Me screening at the Prince Charles, and there was absolutely such a loving atmosphere. There was an audible "Awww" at the start of the weather report. During Cooper's first scene and the Twin Peaks theme "needle drop" it also just felt like communal joy, it's hard to describe. Also whenever James was on screen everyone just laughed at him, that was hilarious.
The segment where they discuss the significance of Laura Dern's speech regarding the robins and the light truly gets to the core of Lynch - love is a force so powerful and important and honest that it can truly cleanse, for when you hold love you hold everything. Lynch understood this and I see it in every single one of his works. When Kyle MacLachlan and Laura Dern embrace in the blinding white light at the end of Blue Velvet, and then we see the robin eating the bug - truly some of the greatest images committed to film. He was a true master and a fascinating person. We are truly poorer without him.
An absolute legend. Auteur, genuine cinematic genius. A truly distinctive voice and style that we've never seen before or since. 'The Elephant Man' ALONE makes him one of my favourite directors. Some lovely messages read out on here 🙏❤
I wanted to know what Kermode thought of Twin Peaks The Return. Felt more like episodic cinema than TV. Getting a full 18 hours of Lynch's unforgettable sound design so late in his career was a treat.
Watching this makes me feel the warmth & fun that David Lynch gave off, sure he terrified me sometimes, but I always knew there was a reason, it was never to hurt me. A genuine and sincere man. Don’t ask me why, but I always felt he was like Spike Milligans brother, both made me laugh and cry, and both have left a large hole with their passing
Thank you Mark and Simon. David Lynch was an absolute class act of a human being and a truly inspirational director. I will miss him. I recommend anyone with creative interests or fans of Lynch check out his Masterclass video, it was on youtube recently.
Twin Peaks also helped me through hell. Also the soundtrack, and his interviews . He was larger than life , clearly, without question ! Yet I couldn’t do justice why this is , in words . He taught me to listen to the feeling in the air , to be wonderfully monosyllabic from time to time, so there is room for listening , to be receptive, that he is so honest about the nature of evil , that he took my appreciation for colours and textures and moods to another more central location in my life . He is also the type of person that at this time we would have needed the most. Although he is one of a kind . He is a real powerful role model to me and I sense to so many , also to Mark .
Lynch's daily drops kept me alive during lockdown. His voice filled the too-empty house and brought light to the long shadows. If just for that I'd love him forever. But his work inspired my deep connection to surreal horror and the freedom of cinema. He shall be missed like an old friend.
I was fortunate enough, if that’s the right term, to be one of those kickstarters on the David Lynch The Art Life doc. Being an aging fan. It took a while to appear but was well worth the wait.
6:53 This is so important. It’s such a beautiful sentiment it’s a deep deep shame that anyone would disregard it as being something ironic forced cuteness in a “disturbing film”. DL truly saw the light amongst the dark, and consistently put that dichotomy on screen. With an often optimistic spin!
I was hoping you'd do a tribute like this - many thanks. I don't say this lightly, and I've never said this about any other film director, but David Lynch totally changed what I thought about film, TV, art, and in many ways my outlook on life. Nothing has to make sense, and things can be hellishly dark, and also stunningly beautiful. It's worth doing things just for the journey, not the result. Things don't have to be quantified, measured and assessed. Lynch's humour in Twin Peaks - The Return, channelled through his Gordon Cole character, is the icing on the cake. He was a one-off, and we'll not see his like again in our lifetime. Wishing you the most amazing dreams DL.
I so enjoyed the interactions among those of us who tuned into the weather report and the number of the day. It’s hard to articulate but it was kool man
I remember finding myself watching Eraser Head at 14 , I was a nature boy always outside , that night watching Eraser Head I found art without finding artsy , the next big shift was twin peaks aged around 19 - 20 again shifted sideways . A year later I've become aware of TM, attended a talk and signed up (not even knowing about David's TM). After That first sitting of TM and walking home a long a small avenue of trees in the evening light the thought came to me this feeling feels like I'm in a beautiful David Lynch film . It was decades later when I came aware of his talks on TM , but still a lover of his films and a film maker myself by then always looking for the heart of the story . But more than anything the 'fishing for ideas' technique he talks about often, for me is his greatest gift, it frees anyone from tropes and recycling and genuinely lets you received ideas from "the other room" . Like the great alchemist leaving us the stone , David left us with " it's like fishing for ideas" . RIP sir , I've learnt so much .
Thanks you two. I first saw Twin Peaks Fire Walk With me on VHS because of Mark and Newman's reviews in the 90's, fantastic film. A friend bought me a ticket to see it again last week at The Prince Charles, the audience were collectively saying goodbye to Lynch, although it is a darkly comic film, there was a buzz in the audience, it was a beautiful experience. It was so great that we all got to say goodbye to him in a great cinema through watching one of his great works. Wonderful send off.
I still believe Twin Peaks The Return is the best 3rd season in history of 3rd seasons and the best comeback after a long hiatus. It floored me how succulent it was.
I haven't watched most of Lynch's films, but Mark's recommendation to start with The Elephant Man is a good one. That was the first of his films I saw. I will say that the ancient cinema I saw it in did its best to ruin the experience. The screen was splattered with something, possibly a soft drink someone had thrown at it. Toward the end, a reel concluded, and the projectionist missed the changeover. The audience sat in the dark for a minute; then, some began to leave. Finally, the film restarted, but it was out of focus and part of it was projected on the screen and part on the wall. To top it off, at the very end, someone tossed a firecracker into the auditorium through the exit door next to the screen. Yet none of this could diminish the power and emotional heft of Lynch's marvelous film.
Thank you for this, it's always great to hear Mark talk about David Lynch, he really was one of the all time great American artists. I'd love to hear Mark do a deep dive video on the return or something. Has he ever talked about the return much? For me it's the greatest work this century
Twin peaks was so incredible at 16, I found it awe inspiring that someone could create that, and the beauty of creativity. His movies always impacted me.
I’m so sad that David Lynch has passed 💔 I didn’t realise he was so spiritual with TM so will look into that more ✨🧘♀️ I absolutely love Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and went to see it on the cinema back in 92. Horrifying and amazing all at the same time. I’ve just received my Blu-ray Criterion Collection Copy in the post today so look forward to watching all the extras 🏔️☕️🍒🥧🍩
Eraser head and lost highway had a big part of my life. The loss of a great man who left legacy of alternative moving pictures that will be loved and hated forever more. Peace to the surreal.
I saw Eraserhead at the Everyman Hampstead when I was 14 back in 1982. I spent most of the film staring at my shoes with my fingers in my ears, begging it to just...end. Tried it again as I approached 16 at the Scala Kings Cross, and it changed my life.
0:45 Was actually just watching Rear Window and kept thinking "this guy look a hell of a lot like David Lynch", didn't know it was a famous comparison!
Blue velvet had massive impact on my back in the day. It was unbelievable on the big screen. Dennis Hopper was the most disturbing creepy bad guy of all time. The stuff of nightmares.
I love his work. Watching Eraserhead for the first time blew my mind, it's solely responsible for my love of black and white photography. I'm going through his work, I love his Short Films and Dumbland is fun. Such a huge loss, RIP Mr Lynch. Great tribute, thank you. As an aside I think that BFI interview is on the Inland Empire DVD.
My parents showed me Elephant Man when I was 8. Not sure what they thought I would get from it but I did end up becoming a huge David Lynch fan, despite this not being a result of seeing the film.
I love that story of the paris review, what a fine fellow he was. Lost Highway has I think one of Bowies best songs ever. Both of them creative volcanoes.
Fire Walk With Me was derided because people wanted answers in regards to the show. (IMO) I also loved it immediately and took many years to work out why the general viewer hated it.
I would not have as much an interest in film and the art world had it not been for Lynch. I owe him the last decade of my life to him and possibly the rest of my life.
I was hugely saddened by Mr Lynch's death but at least we finally got a third series of Twin Peaks. And that it was as absolutely batshit crazy as it was!
Now I want to know what the wrong order for Lost Highway was so I could see if it did make sense :) Thank you very much for this multi-layered tribute. Still hurting but very grateful for his work simultaneously
Saw blue velvet when I was 17 or 18. I haven’t seen anything come close to it in terms of emotional scope. Love, hate, violence, depravity, it’s all there. A searing cross sectional view of the sins of patriarchy. I never watched it again but its ideas never stopped haunting me.
I saw Lost Highway messed up on mushrooms at a midnight showing back in 97 when it came out in the theatre. It was like a messed up circus ride . I could not stop laughing.
Wild at Heart for me. Deranged energy, wildly funny and Nicolas Cage in his snakeskin jacket which ' represented his individuality and belief in personal freedom '. 💥
It was an honour to meet him when one of my favourite art galleries in Australia displayed a retrospective of his art work in 2015. We also attended an amazing interview with David Stratton .
Since seeing David Lynch's Dune around 35 years ago, I've always thought and defended it as a masterpiece of film making and I believe it too will also be vindicated one day. As it very often happens, true innovative artists are never appreciated as much until much later.
The greatest of all time in my eyes.
The genius of Lynch is in the apparent contradictions - his movies appear so abstract and impenetrable at first yet he bares his soul in his work more than most filmmakers, and spoke with such an incredibly sincerity and clarity at the same time. A lot of surrealist artists lace their work with irony and intentionally try to confuse, but David was deadly serious and his work always boiled down to something very simple and relatable - the human condition. Twin Peaks is the perfect example, it’s a murder mystery where the “who dunnit” is irrelevant, it’s about how this tragic character and her death affected everyone around her. It was always about humanity with Lynch, and that’s why so many relate so strongly to him and his work.
Well said, my friend 👌
There is a part of Twin Peaks The Return where I feel like Lynch is deliberately sending up the shallow characters of Tarantino.
When Twin Peaks was early in production and Sheryl Lee, a local actor with no credits to her name, was cast as Laura Palmer, Lynch quickly recognised that her character was the heart of the story and greatly expanded Palmer's and consequently Lee's role in the series. It's hard to imagine what Twin Peaks would even look like without Sheryl Lee and I think that goes back to the sincerity and humanity that's central to Lynch's art.
People often tend to get too hung up on looking for deeper meaning when watching something made by Lynch, when he's always been more concerned with the "how" rather than the "what" or the "why".
Hear, hear. The earnestness he brought to every piece was truly unique. His films are beautiful and painful, much like life itself.
@@654jimbob654 I absolutely agree. Laura Palmer becomes such a huge character by the end of season three of Twin Peaks. It's like you've known this woman your whole life. This isn't the "girl's corpse" that is the subject of an important investigation, this is a living person. Diana in Mulholland Drive is the same. I think she's a completely living person.
Always appreciated Mark for flying the Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me flag. It’s my favourite of his films. Absolutely brutal, scary, sad, and overwhelming, but also beautiful and life-affirming.
I can happily report that I saw Fire Walk With Me (1992) on a Saturday night at a great cinema house with a great audience at - of all places - Zuerich Switzerland. What a fabulous, unforgettable, experience to be able to scream out loud with a couple of hundred other transfixed spectators. Thank you David Lynch, it was a dream night.
It's one of the best films ever about abuse and its consequences
It's interesting that, in a genre that is sometimes stuck in an arms race of trying to make the goriest or jumpiest films possible, Fire Walk With Me still hangs in the upper echelons of the scariest films ever made without ever needing to lean too hard on graphic violence or traditional scares. FWWM is absolutely terrifying and utterly heartbreaking too in a way that very few other horror films are.
Was really hoping for a video like this. Been going through all of Mark’s old interviews, BFI videos and reviews of Lynch’s stuff since his passing.
Take a look at this excerpt of Lynch’s Eye of the Duck interview with Marc Cousins. He’s hilarious and profound and I’m not entirely certain if he’s making it all up
ruclips.net/video/N-OeCYaZgT4/видео.htmlsi=9tR0GL4__Qin_Lhl
Great tribute. What a wonderful director. He was a true auteur.
My favourite aspect of David Lynch was despite his films being quite dark they were absolutely never cynical. As a person he had quite a sunny disposition so when you see that in his films it isn’t ironic, I find it very sincere, he knew there was good in life as well as the darkness
Well said.
I’ve thought about him and his films every day since he’s passed. My favorite artist forever ❤
Ive thought about him and his films every day since I saw Mulholland Drive as a 14 year old in 2001
Same. I am genuinely sad we'll never see more from him.
At least he's left behind a timeless legacy and he did The Return! So grateful for that one!
I've found myself introducing people to his work a few times over the years and will most likely continue to in the future.
That's a fittingly lovely tribute. Can't believe he's gone.
Thank you for not adding 'commercial failure' when you mentioned Dune. A common theme in many pieces rightly praising David Lynch's amazing filmography is to single out Dune as the outlier, the failure, and I realise Lynch himself was not a fan of the final edit. But I personally loved it and feel it ticks all the surreal, dreamlike and disturbing boxes we want from a Lynch movie. I also love what Denis Villeneuve has done with his adaptations, but to tell that story in 137mins is an impressive feat even if Basil Exposition had to play a lead role. Looking back at his career, I also realised how I enjoyed every single one of his films, and while Mulholland Drive may be the popular choice, I think Blue Velvet and Lost Highway are my favourites. What an amazing body of work. Wish I could still style my hair like Eraserhead out of respect.
it's a small point, i'll grant you, but thank you to simon for saying "died", which seems to be a word that SO many people avoid. this is also just SUCH a nice thing for both to have done.
This one really hit me. Came out of nowhere and hurt so much, especially given the times we are living in.
@@Hedge_witch As David would say “Focus on the donut, and not on the hole” ♥️
Same here. I've been in a gloom since I heard of his passing. I've been a huge fan of his work for as long as I can remember. A massive personal hero.
David Lynch will forever be missed... I still cannot believe he's gone.
Great tribute guys, I really enjoyed this.
Rest in peace, Mr Lynch 😢
Thanks for this lovely tribute to a remarkable man.
Thanks for listening
i was going to do it anyways but lynchs death partly from smoking has spurred me on to quit my own 20 year addiction to tobacco and i have now not bought any for over a week. Anyways im glad he came out an spoke against cigarettes in the end and i will definelty be quitting partly in tribute to him !
@@DRACULAFLOWTHEMUSICMAESTRO that nicotine is a tough withdrawal. If you can, I recommend some thc to get over the hump. ❤️ good luck, you can get over it
that's awesome and a beautiful tribute!
@ hey thanks man ! really glad to finally be rid of smoking tobacco tbh if only david himself had realised......
@@DRACULAFLOWTHEMUSICMAESTRO That’s wonderful, praise God
No he would want you to do it for self
I can remember watching twin peaks on bbc2 on Tuesday night with my mother at the age of 11 and have been a huge fan of every part of his work since then ! It was my birthday on the 16th of January and I actually found a copy of mulholland drive special edition at a charity shop ! If I’m honest the sad news has deeply affected me ! David your pure art has touched my soul for decades may you rest in peace and dream eternally!
It genuinely broke my heart when I heard. It is so beautiful that such a singular artist, who made weird, strange, challenging stuff is so universally beloved. Reading Kyle McLachlan's tribute made me burst into tears. I really will miss Mr Lynch, but will be able to feel his influence on this whole world through his work. A true master.
Just started Twin Peaks again, intending to finally finish it beyond the first season this time. Not a big tv series guy, but it’s about time.
One of the GOATs.
Oh boy. The Return is beyond words really.
Season 2 is uneven but brilliant when it works. Season 3 the return is pure art.
Stick through season 2, there's a rough patch
@@chinmail It was rough on purpose ☕
your in for a treat mate
Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me - The Return = PERFECTION
4:02 I was at that Fire Walk With Me screening at the Prince Charles, and there was absolutely such a loving atmosphere. There was an audible "Awww" at the start of the weather report. During Cooper's first scene and the Twin Peaks theme "needle drop" it also just felt like communal joy, it's hard to describe.
Also whenever James was on screen everyone just laughed at him, that was hilarious.
Oh my god that line about James made me burst out laughing! Love it. Wish I was there for that
Was waiting for this.
A colossal loss. But there's such a sense of love and celebration. The mark of a true genius. ❤
The greatest artist of all time. Not just director, painter, actor, writer, itellectual. He is the true embodyment of an artist.
Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet are utter masterpieces, what a wonderful director, he will be truly missed. ❤
Once seen never forgotten...❤
Thank you. Just the right people to pay tribute, and a lovely tribute it was.
Thank you Mark .. I’ve always thought of you under the umbrella of Lynch ❤
Lovely tribute to an amazing person.
The segment where they discuss the significance of Laura Dern's speech regarding the robins and the light truly gets to the core of Lynch - love is a force so powerful and important and honest that it can truly cleanse, for when you hold love you hold everything. Lynch understood this and I see it in every single one of his works. When Kyle MacLachlan and Laura Dern embrace in the blinding white light at the end of Blue Velvet, and then we see the robin eating the bug - truly some of the greatest images committed to film. He was a true master and a fascinating person. We are truly poorer without him.
Thank you ❤ David was my favourite, ever
It is simply always so great to listen to your conversation!
An absolute legend. Auteur, genuine cinematic genius. A truly distinctive voice and style that we've never seen before or since. 'The Elephant Man' ALONE makes him one of my favourite directors. Some lovely messages read out on here 🙏❤
Great video guys!
A lovely tribute.
I wanted to know what Kermode thought of Twin Peaks The Return. Felt more like episodic cinema than TV. Getting a full 18 hours of Lynch's unforgettable sound design so late in his career was a treat.
An 18 hour best of.
Watching this makes me feel the warmth & fun that David Lynch gave off, sure he terrified me sometimes, but I always knew there was a reason, it was never to hurt me. A genuine and sincere man. Don’t ask me why, but I always felt he was like Spike Milligans brother, both made me laugh and cry, and both have left a large hole with their passing
Thank you Mark and Simon. David Lynch was an absolute class act of a human being and a truly inspirational director. I will miss him.
I recommend anyone with creative interests or fans of Lynch check out his Masterclass video, it was on youtube recently.
Excellent discussion about a major Artist.
Doing a double bill of Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart tomorrow with a friend in memory, I'm sad but so happy we got The Return before he left us.
That’s a crazy good double bill.
Twin Peaks also helped me through hell. Also the soundtrack, and his interviews . He was larger than life , clearly, without question ! Yet I couldn’t do justice why this is , in words . He taught me to listen to the feeling in the air , to be wonderfully monosyllabic from time to time, so there is room for listening , to be receptive, that he is so honest about the nature of evil , that he took my appreciation for colours and textures and moods to another more central location in my life . He is also the type of person that at this time we would have needed the most. Although he is one of a kind . He is a real powerful role model to me and I sense to so many , also to Mark .
Lynch's daily drops kept me alive during lockdown. His voice filled the too-empty house and brought light to the long shadows. If just for that I'd love him forever. But his work inspired my deep connection to surreal horror and the freedom of cinema. He shall be missed like an old friend.
I was fortunate enough, if that’s the right term, to be one of those kickstarters on the David Lynch The Art Life doc. Being an aging fan. It took a while to appear but was well worth the wait.
Excellent assessments.
Sad to lose a true artist like Lynch. I think The Elephant Man was one of the most beautiful films ever created.
6:53 This is so important. It’s such a beautiful sentiment it’s a deep deep shame that anyone would disregard it as being something ironic forced cuteness in a “disturbing film”. DL truly saw the light amongst the dark, and consistently put that dichotomy on screen. With an often optimistic spin!
Well done boys ! Whenever David himself appeared on Twin Peaks as Gordon was always a treat.
I was hoping you'd do a tribute like this - many thanks. I don't say this lightly, and I've never said this about any other film director, but David Lynch totally changed what I thought about film, TV, art, and in many ways my outlook on life. Nothing has to make sense, and things can be hellishly dark, and also stunningly beautiful. It's worth doing things just for the journey, not the result. Things don't have to be quantified, measured and assessed.
Lynch's humour in Twin Peaks - The Return, channelled through his Gordon Cole character, is the icing on the cake. He was a one-off, and we'll not see his like again in our lifetime. Wishing you the most amazing dreams DL.
I so enjoyed the interactions among those of us who tuned into the weather report and the number of the day. It’s hard to articulate but it was kool man
Thank you gentlemen for a thoughtful and transportive tribute to, indeed, the great American surrealist.
surrealist genius. R.I.P.
I remember finding myself watching Eraser Head at 14 , I was a nature boy always outside , that night watching Eraser Head I found art without finding artsy , the next big shift was twin peaks aged around 19 - 20 again shifted sideways . A year later I've become aware of TM, attended a talk and signed up (not even knowing about David's TM). After That first sitting of TM and walking home a long a small avenue of trees in the evening light the thought came to me this feeling feels like I'm in a beautiful David Lynch film . It was decades later when I came aware of his talks on TM , but still a lover of his films and a film maker myself by then always looking for the heart of the story . But more than anything the 'fishing for ideas' technique he talks about often, for me is his greatest gift, it frees anyone from tropes and recycling and genuinely lets you received ideas from "the other room" . Like the great alchemist leaving us the stone , David left us with " it's like fishing for ideas" . RIP sir , I've learnt so much .
A visionary and great human. Travel well David.
A great light has gone out.
He nailed John Ford in Spielberg's The Fablemans. He was superb as John Ford in that ending.
R.I.P. Mr. Lynch
I first saw Eraserhead around the age of 12. Fortunately, it didn't affect me at all... wait. It. Is. Happening. Again.
Thanks you two. I first saw Twin Peaks Fire Walk With me on VHS because of Mark and Newman's reviews in the 90's, fantastic film. A friend bought me a ticket to see it again last week at The Prince Charles, the audience were collectively saying goodbye to Lynch, although it is a darkly comic film, there was a buzz in the audience, it was a beautiful experience. It was so great that we all got to say goodbye to him in a great cinema through watching one of his great works. Wonderful send off.
I still believe Twin Peaks The Return is the best 3rd season in history of 3rd seasons and the best comeback after a long hiatus. It floored me how succulent it was.
I haven't watched most of Lynch's films, but Mark's recommendation to start with The Elephant Man is a good one. That was the first of his films I saw. I will say that the ancient cinema I saw it in did its best to ruin the experience. The screen was splattered with something, possibly a soft drink someone had thrown at it. Toward the end, a reel concluded, and the projectionist missed the changeover. The audience sat in the dark for a minute; then, some began to leave. Finally, the film restarted, but it was out of focus and part of it was projected on the screen and part on the wall. To top it off, at the very end, someone tossed a firecracker into the auditorium through the exit door next to the screen. Yet none of this could diminish the power and emotional heft of Lynch's marvelous film.
Thank you for this, it's always great to hear Mark talk about David Lynch, he really was one of the all time great American artists.
I'd love to hear Mark do a deep dive video on the return or something. Has he ever talked about the return much? For me it's the greatest work this century
Twin peaks was so incredible at 16, I found it awe inspiring that someone could create that, and the beauty of creativity. His movies always impacted me.
I’m so sad that David Lynch has passed 💔 I didn’t realise he was so spiritual with TM so will look into that more ✨🧘♀️ I absolutely love Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and went to see it on the cinema back in 92. Horrifying and amazing all at the same time. I’ve just received my Blu-ray Criterion Collection Copy in the post today so look forward to watching all the extras 🏔️☕️🍒🥧🍩
Wild At Heart all the way. I love every frame.
We will never ever see a duo like
Lynch & Badalamenti again
Heartbreaking 💔
In heaven, everything is fine. RIP David.
Freddie Jones is welcoming David into the laughter-life with open arms, biblious Virgil and dorky Dante all over again. Rest in sweet peace and joy.
Was waiting to hear some discussion on him , as I know you've been a big fan over the years!
Eraser head and lost highway had a big part of my life. The loss of a great man who left legacy of alternative moving pictures that will be loved and hated forever more. Peace to the surreal.
The Elephant Man is one of two films that made cry throughout, such a brilliant film by a brilliant man. Rest in peace Lynch ❤
I saw Eraserhead at the Everyman Hampstead when I was 14 back in 1982. I spent most of the film staring at my shoes with my fingers in my ears, begging it to just...end. Tried it again as I approached 16 at the Scala Kings Cross, and it changed my life.
RIP to RUclipss greatest weatherman
RIP DAVID! Brilliant director! My TOP 3 r ELEPHANT MAN, WILD AT HEART & BLUE VELVET!x
He bacame a legend in Poland. And he spent a lot of time in this country. Amazing guy.
David Lynch heavily influenced me to expand my cinema pallet! He was one of the greatest directors!
Mullholland drive is still one of my Favourites of all time , also fire walk with me and twin peaks , RIP
Thank you
0:45 Was actually just watching Rear Window and kept thinking "this guy look a hell of a lot like David Lynch", didn't know it was a famous comparison!
Blue velvet had massive impact on my back in the day. It was unbelievable on the big screen. Dennis Hopper was the most disturbing creepy bad guy of all time. The stuff of nightmares.
beautiful
I love his work. Watching Eraserhead for the first time blew my mind, it's solely responsible for my love of black and white photography. I'm going through his work, I love his Short Films and Dumbland is fun. Such a huge loss, RIP Mr Lynch. Great tribute, thank you.
As an aside I think that BFI interview is on the Inland Empire DVD.
My parents showed me Elephant Man when I was 8. Not sure what they thought I would get from it but I did end up becoming a huge David Lynch fan, despite this not being a result of seeing the film.
I love that story of the paris review, what a fine fellow he was. Lost Highway has I think one of Bowies best songs ever. Both of them creative volcanoes.
Fire Walk With Me was derided because people wanted answers in regards to the show. (IMO)
I also loved it immediately and took many years to work out why the general viewer hated it.
RIP, David Lynch. You will never be forgotten.
I would not have as much an interest in film and the art world had it not been for Lynch. I owe him the last decade of my life to him and possibly the rest of my life.
I'm going to follow his message on how to get the most out of life and myself
RIP Sensei 🙏
I was hugely saddened by Mr Lynch's death but at least we finally got a third series of Twin Peaks. And that it was as absolutely batshit crazy as it was!
I found a copy of Eraserhead in a charity and aware of its status, I bought it. I found it baffling but fantastic at the time. RIP.
Now I want to know what the wrong order for Lost Highway was so I could see if it did make sense :) Thank you very much for this multi-layered tribute. Still hurting but very grateful for his work simultaneously
I also saw Eraserhead at the Phoenix East Finchley. Mind blowing,
True to his word we saw twin peaks back like he said see you in 25 years :)
Saw blue velvet when I was 17 or 18. I haven’t seen anything come close to it in terms of emotional scope. Love, hate, violence, depravity, it’s all there. A searing cross sectional view of the sins of patriarchy. I never watched it again but its ideas never stopped haunting me.
Mr. Lynch was pure genius. His influence on cinema is nothing less than historical.
Love that Kermode question to Mr Lynch and his very dry response 😁
I saw Lost Highway messed up on mushrooms at a midnight showing back in 97 when it came out in the theatre. It was like a messed up circus ride . I could not stop laughing.
There goes my hero😢
would love to see an edit of Lost Highway with the reels in the same wrong order as the Paris premiere
Nice hear a mention of Angelo Badalementi, and nicer that you knew him!
Many many years ago a friend told me to watch eraserhead after ingesting a small square of blotting paper. It was a fkin terrible idea.
Wild at Heart for me. Deranged energy, wildly funny and Nicolas Cage in his snakeskin jacket which ' represented his individuality and belief in personal freedom '. 💥
It was an honour to meet him when one of my favourite art galleries in Australia displayed a retrospective of his art work in 2015. We also attended an amazing interview with David Stratton .
Since seeing David Lynch's Dune around 35 years ago, I've always thought and defended it as a masterpiece of film making and I believe it too will also be vindicated one day. As it very often happens, true innovative artists are never appreciated as much until much later.
End with The Straight Story. It's very well done with love.
That Sorcerer record dropped same year as Eraserhead
And you nailed it ‘electricity’ is def the thing it’s just hard to talk about