David Lynch: "Feature films are in trouble, and the arthouses are dead"
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- Опубликовано: 20 май 2020
- William Mullally sits down with David Lynch ahead of the release of Twin Peaks: The Return to talk about the state of the film medium.
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Lynch is so blunt, even to the point of rudeness sometimes, but his facial expressions cancel out his tone and you just know that he has absolutely no ill intentions . He's just super direct and knows exactly what he wants to say without the padding of the questions.
Can't blame him, they guy wanted to ask questions about things he didn't know much about. That Q about Frost's book, for example, was simple ignorance of the subject matter. Lynch handled it well to give a short answer without criticizing a straight-up bad question.
i disagree, he's just a dick.
great film maker though no doubt
The opposite Tarantino
I don't think him rude at all he just prefers to express his opinions through his art than in mundane conversation. He can probably tell from the questions if the interviewer understands and respects his work and opinion or not.
YES... That is Years of Experience.
In the Film Industry... Time is Money.
I am always impressed with his hair. It is magnificent.
I am impressed and envious...
It is a great do.
He got it from Herbert von Karajan.
Sponge bob squarehead.
@@walkertongdee More like Sideshow Bob...
How's Dubai?
It's great, I get to leave all the time.
@@meadow9441 twonk
Great if you're a westerner and not a slave.
André Barbosa calm down, nobody asked you
thats the funniest thing i've read in a week or more
@@AndyBarbosa96 based
Such kindness in his eyes and in asking the interviewer questions too
Not just that, but you can see the passion the moment he first started answering questions. You can tell it means a lot.
Ya he seems like a genuinely good guy.
He's a pretty tough interview though. He's kind but guarded.
Lynch is deeply in touch with the unconscious side of life. Brilliant film maker. True artist.
"A thing wants to be the way it likes to be. In that case you get new ideas"
he's a really nice guy. I was in LA at a left turn going to a little mexican place down the hill and he waved me to turn. I insisted he go and waved him to proceed forward.
That was a dream sequence.
I was living in Chicago and working in Wrigleyville directly across the street from Wrigley Field at a spot called Tuscany.
Lynch was downstairs by the bar smoking, when it was still legal to do so, and as I was trying to muster the strength to speak to him, a woman trying to cross the street was struck by a cab directly infront of him and I.
I looked over at him and had Nothing to say other than I hoped she was ok.
He said something to the same while stamping out his American Spirit and proceeded to walk out and up the stairs to his supper table. It was so Lynchian that I have no real way of describing it.
When I was younger, maybe junior high, I got roped into watching my 3 month old niece while my sister got her hair done. SO when there i am, sitting in the waiting area of a hair salon with my niece, and who walks in, but david lynch.
I was nervous as fuck, and just kept looking at him, as he read a magazine and waited, but didn't know what to say. Pretty soon though my niece started crying, and I'm trying to quiet her down because I didn't want her to bother mr lynch, but she wouldn't stop. Pretty soon he gets up and walks over. He started running his hands through her hair and asking what was wrong. I replied that she was probably hungry or something. So, he put down his magazine, picked up my niece and lifted his shirt. He breast fed her right there in the middle of a hair salon. Chill guy, really nice about it.
@@fruitypeebils amazing simply beautiful
@@fruitypeebils 😂😂😂 omg that caught me really bad at the last bit
Lynch is the American version of Herzog. Both deep, grounded artists. Really live life. Switched on.
nice said :)
great comparison!
Who is Herzog?
@@PolarBear-rc4ks watch his family drama llc in mubi
Love them both. Really wonderful to hear either of them speak. Yes.
I was having a panic attack and this calmed me down. How does he do that
Yeah... I know, same. Hehe.
Not like now, but he's on my list when shit happens
As strange as this may sound, David Lynch is the most real person in Hollywood.
ETA: And, yes, I am making that statement from the perspective of a reasonably informed layperson. I make no claim to knowing everyone in Hollywood personally. I'm just making a personal observation, it's not that hard.
Real people make weird stuff, fakies make "normal" stuff. It's not that hard.
Paul Frantizek you don’t know everyone in Hollywood enough to make such a sweeping assumption
I love Lynch's movies but I also remember the accusations about him.
I don't know if they're true but I also don't know that they aren't. When it comes to Hollywood, it's safer to praise the art than the artist
its not strange its surreal..
@@DarkAngelEU Cookie cutters
Watched “Mulholland Drive” a couple of days ago, still astonished about how well made and unique it was. Highly recommended 👍
One of the best ever, I agree! Have you seen Inland Empire ? It’s great
Ben Connor thanks for the recommendation, tonight’s movie sorted 👍
Jarred Knox It’s my favorite film. It made no sense to me the first time through but was intriguing enough for me to watch it again and try to figure it out. I’ve seen it a dozen times. It will make sense with some investigation.
I'm down with his no bullshit approach to answering the questions.
I don’t mean to assume anything about Mr. lynch but when he said all the characters are like family to him, my heart broke a little because I could imagine he misses some of the old characters who couldn’t be in the new series.
The way this interview is conducted, I don't think he did his research,
David Lynch is replying how he does when the questions are too surface.
I bet Mullally was nervous, but some of the questions are like badgering a witness and David seems to respond in a manner consistent with this.
The "interviewer" sounds like he is on anti depressants he needs to do a shot or listen to some f******* whale song and CHILL OUT
I love how he is so gentle and courteous but so definite and blunt at the same time.. almost zen
This guy directs like a genius, writes like a genius, wears the hair of a genius, talks like a genius...
@Jarred Knox he probably has the toenails of a genius, the cavities of a genius...
He just may be a ... genius?
i feel like every interviewer who interviews Lynch, is totally square and has no idea how to talk to the man. Poor Lynch.
I've always thought the same thing also... I notice the same thing every time John Lennon was interviewed too.
But who understands Lynch enough to be able to speak to him properly? He’s kind of on his own in his own different state of mind to all of us. He lives in a different world almost.
@@BCS1105 Yes he definitely is his own island. Amazing how we all hang on to every word he says, even if it's just a weather update.
If you feel that every interviewer is doing something wrong, the problem might be with Lynch, not them. He is an amazing director and visionary, but he is NOT the ideal interviewee. He is eccentric and it can be difficult processing his straightforwardness when you're trying to get answers to questions you've thought of for days. I can't really blame them.
Lynch is truly a thinker and those questions are not suitable at all. What an awful interviewer for such a great mind. Sad.
The only grown-up in the room. A truly great director.
Even if some people in the industry don't agree, when true film masters like David Lynch, Martin Scorsese and Pedro Almodovar are saying cinema is dying, that means quite something.
wish my hair will look as good as his when im his age.
My hair didn't look as good as his when I was 19.
Ninef Sargis Don’t wait until then, try aging as fast as you can and you’ll have your hair just like David!
I know, cool, right?!
It's all the cigarettes.
Poor, rambling questions for crying out loud, all over the place, what a missed opportunity. Lynch was being polite.
"Feature films are in trouble and arthouses are dead." No follow up? I guess this isn't news at this point.
There is no way in hell I would sit in front of a television.Totally corporate fodder
@@ariesred777 Streaming services aren't all bad. You can track down decent films on Amazon Prime and Netflix if you know where to look. A lot of the artier ones here are disappearing onto smaller platforms which is a bit annoying.
@@anonb4632 Thanks for the information.I actually haven't been to a cinema in about 7 years.It got expensive and too commercial.Never used Amazon or Netflix and prefer the smaller platforms including Arthouse/International film/theatre.It's not dead just not mainstream.The audience is quite different to boot.
@@ariesred777 As I say in another thread, we have fewer and fewer non-English language films being shown at arthouse cinemas. Very few of them show French films for example anymore, which used to be very common twenty years ago.
The problem with the smaller platforms is lack of range.
There are several comments by Lynch which are begging for follow-ups but it doesn't happen. Not impressed by the interviewer.
"If somethings comes along that you fall in love with then thats what you do" It can be so easy :D
If that's so then I can't wait for him to make a sculpture literally out of his own shit...
It can if you have the good fortune to be able to really devote time to the things you love. Lynch is one of the few people lucky enough to have a massive range of options in front of him, but at least he realises this and is clearly thankful for it.
It's hard to express, how Lynch uses a "sense of space". Some of it, seems mundane, and unremarkable...but, yet it's so familiar. A vacant lot; a play ground for kids; a stretch of road way; a mundane suburban neighborhood...all of it, becomes mysterious and often threatening.
Yo Batboy, say hi to the page 5 girl for me!
It's his genius right? Making the ordinary foreboding or thrreatening
It's what he puts in that space. Or perhaps I should say, it was already there, he just made you sit up and notice.
Direct, very direct
painfully direct at points
too direct?
Well...he is a director.
YOU ARE WITNESSING A FRONT THREE QUARTERS VIEW OF TWO ADULTS SHARING A TENDER MOMENT
@@TheCutawayYou are disappointing and a complete amateur for that comment
When was this interview filmed? 2016? Edit: Oh, I see in another comment, before TP3. Could this info be added to the details section?
God, I love this man. He is a true artist and a genius. Btw, this interview was so hilarious.
He’s amazing I would be so honoured to be in his presence let alone interview him he’s one of my favourite directors. Bloody Brilliant
Thank god he is here to report the weather to us
I get my daily dose of art house cinema from MUBI. I used to be mainly into French/Italian/Spanish films but recently I discovered many other auteurs from Scandinavia, South America and East Asia. But I miss going to my local art house cinema in Istanbul (Beyoglu Sinemasi) and watch films with other people, even though one ticket was the same cost as a monthly MUBI subscription.
Талантливый человек талантлив во ВСЁМ
Гений.такой вкус к Музыке ещё поискать нужно.когда выйдет фильм?
Глаза добрые до безумия.
Человечище
Damn I love his answers. Refreshing
"artohuse is marginal because of piles of bullshit being released every week" what lynch means by "arthouse is dead"
It's weird how normal he seems.
The rest of the world went insane and got weird. David Lynch is just one of the normals
I wish I could find more on David Lynch discussing Inland Empire. Don't expect to have it explained, fully analyzed or broken down, I dont want that either. But maybe as more time goes by. One of the most unique and obscure films, and still the only film that really frightens me even amidst my collection of foreign horror movies and some American art-horror.
There is a feature length documentary on the making of the film out there. It was on the original dvd but not sure if the criterion release has it included
I mean, could you Imagine the direction the SW franchise would have gone had Lynch directed RotJ?
I agree but after the alleged and mostly overblown Dune debacle, most pop-SciFi executives would be more inclined to avoid Lynch for a major film property rather than run towards him, as they should.
He's got this bemused look. It's like "I'm not gloing to tell this interviwer an ything", and the interviewer thinking "I'm not goiong to get anything from this guy", and they both know it. Fake interview that tells us nothing, except that "it (Twin Peaks: the return) is what is needs to be".
The interviewer asked banal and silly questions. Lynch gave him a few chances before he decided to veer into obscurantism. An advanced practitioner of the Maharishi can't answer the questions you'd ask the way you'd like them answered.
Tough Interview
Such a sweet man.
Reminds me of an old Flanders in a Reservoir Dogs costume.
I completely understand what he is saying, however, if films like the lighthouse can still be made today then Lynch can make whatever movie he wants as far as I'm concerned.
He’s got “love in spades” I would say. A funny statement perhaps-but he’s such a gem.
Love Lynch...Blue Velvet and Elephant Man are two of my favorite films
Was this an interview or an interrogation?
David's eyes are pure blue magic
Thank you :)
4:17 epic answer.
The guild 45th cinema in Seattle is going to become condos, that building is so intrinsically linked to my childhood, my father would take me to freaky art house films & foreign films as a youngster, and I’ve heard this is a trend across America, the loss of these culturally important places of film worship.
Wow, he's a bottle of hair gel away from becoming Eraserhead.
Short and sweet
lynch seems like a nightmare to interview. haha
I notice my local arthouse cinemas rarely show films in other languages anymore. I used to watch tonnes of films in French, Italian, Russian, Japanese and a whole host of other languages. They occasionally show Middle Eastern films now if any, which I'm not usually into. There are some exceptions e.g. Theeb which is a very good Jordanian film. Occasionally a very commercial Chinese film posing as arthouse, but which isn't that deep... But sometimes months go by without any foreign language films....
We were lucky to come up in cities that had art house cinemas in a time, the 70’s and 80’s, when art and foreign language films were being distributed and viewed by a large enough segment of the population and were flourishing. I miss the days in San Francisco when I could just head over to the Lumiere every week to catch a film or two. I don’t even go to the movies anymore, too much strum and drang without substance.
Loved that HAIRCUT
Does anyone know where I could get those drapes. They're soo episode 11. I'VE GOT TO HAVE THOSE DRAPES!
I wonder if they come with silent drape runners too....
when was this video filmed? Lynch was trying to be nice but he's not letting the interviewer to finish the questions and not answering much. Did this guy interview Lynch before, it seems like a deja vu to me.
I interviewed him three months before TP 3 came out, so no one had seen it, and originally released a portion of this for the outlet I was working for. This is the first time I have shared the full unedited video.
@@TheCutaway Is there any way you can interview Lynch during quarantine?
He had one lately about trancendental meditation but the questions were terrible.
Mr Lynch is the “Chancy Gardener” of film makers. So profound and direct in every way.
He has the same birthday as my late father both undeniably good looking, funny and strange in their own ways. Thank you so much mr david lynch for your strange gift to the world. Cheers!
As much as I love David Lynch as a person and a filmmaker, I have to respectfully disagree with the statement that's the title of the video. I think movies, especially arthouse films are better than ever, they're just kind of niche and you have to really look for them. Some are very heavily inspired by Lynch himself I think, which is something to be proud of. Good examples include "Enemy" by Denis Villenueve, "The Double" by Richard Ayoade, "Drive" by Nicholas Wending Wefn, and anything else by these directors as well. The term arthouse gets thrown around a lot, and the films can be quite divisive, so while I can in confidence recommend all of these, the genre in nature means I can't guarantee you all will like them. Darren Aronofsky's "mother!" was one of the most divisive films ever created but it's candy to film buffs who love this genre. All these came out within the last decade.
@Gene Nightingale Interesting! I never thought about it that way! If you want one that's often overlooked that's grounded in reality, you could try "Insomnia" if you haven't already? I personally (mostly) love Nolan's movies. I usually thought of them as psychological thrillers, sci-fi, and action, but yes, arthouse does fit for a good chunk of them.
I agree! Art house is really getting a shot of adrenaline lately from distributors like A24 and Neon, giving some really unique, independently made films a larger audience than they would have gotten in years past.
@@joshuafletcher4501 A24 is my favorite studio. The whole indie scene is littered with quality products that blend filmmaker's intentions with a lack of studio meddling. Other studios that achieve this balance are (Fox) Searchlight, Focus Features, (yes, NEON), Sony Pictures Classics, Film4, Magnolia Pictures, and sometimes Annapurna and Bleecker Street. Most great arthouse movies I see come from here, but surprisingly some sneak in from higher-up studios like Warner Bros. , Paramount, (and obviously Universal along with it's other subgroups as well as 20th Century Fox) EDIT: David Cronenberg is also an AMAZING talent in the arthouse industry, though in recent years his films are starting to get weaker in quality, his last outstanding films where in the 2000s with Viggo Mortenson.
Is The Irishman arthouse?
@@dawsondjodvorj2408 Uh... I don't think so. I think that's more of a true crime drama. The closest films to Arthouse I've seen from Scorsese are Shutter Island, Taxi Driver, Who's That Knocking At My Door, and After Hours. I could be wrong since "arthouse" is a pretty broad term, but it usually applies to surreal, intterpretable films whose stories are told through imagery that's meaning depends on the viewer, I think.
what if junji ito worked with lynch
Dope!!!
I got goosebumps as I was reading your comment!
I would cry because id be so happy
what if you shut the fuck up
Junji ito is a manga horror master right?
He’s definitely enlightened, you can tell when you have started that path yourself.
Huge agree honestly. I wish he did more candid interviews about his spirituality as opposed to his art - though I acknowledge they're interlinked
I agree, it's in his eyes. He lies with words all the time but everything else about him is immaculate. He likes to do his "polite understanding old man" routine, such a bullshitter lol.
Michael Bell he has though
@@36gamers which ones?
@@michaelbell8112 His spirituality is expressed through the work of his foundation.
Which is far more huge than most people realize. The TM organization basically considers it to be the free outreach service for its own services, and the TM organization is in 130+ countries. His foundation is only in 35 countries thus far, but has managed to negotiate national-level contracts with major (50-100 million citizen) countries to teach meditation.
Mr. Lynch is amongst the most outstanding world filmmakers of our time. We look forward to the return of his art to the medium of television and video. We hope he remains in the US and does not move to Dubai.
Only a complete fool would consider moving there in the current climate. You may end up locked down in one of the most terrible cities on the planet.
@@yvesnyfelerph.d.8297 --- We know a number of residents of Dubai. Being an authoritarian Arab state make it about the same political climate and ambient temperature as Vegas. Think about being locked down in Vegas as being about the same thing except that one could not get one's supercar tuned up by a local dealer in Vegas.
Why does nobody ask him more about the story he has told so many times, about how he was painting a picture when he was young, and suddenly there was a wind coming from the picture and it started to move. That's not an everyday experience, to say the least. Many would consider it a revelation, a temporarily psychosis or something else.
It's called having an imagination. If you don't have those kind of experiences, that's quite the pity.
@@DarkAngelEU Please stop bragging about yourself. It's not about imagination, it's about an actual experience.
@@Langkowski He told the story, hat else do you want? Get your own experiences instead of just leeching on others'!
@@DarkAngelEU Your strawman arguments are pathetic. Go somewhere else to spread your toxins instead of leeching on someone else's comments.
or an artist being poetic in a shopworn story he tells on press junkets for four fucking decades plus
He's referring to the theme park trouble in feature films like Scorsese but in Lynch's style.
Great Lynch, I love him.... But... It Is the old, ancient story about Paradise Lost: once upon a time there were people able to....
Dear Mr Lynch, it you go around, and watch in the Righetti place, you can find very good quality... Imho
I love listening to this particular human talk.
Pin Tweaks is magnificent
Film as any kind of an art form died ages ago - killed off by 'entertainment.' Which is ironic given that it's never been easier to make a film using today's technology or 'distribute' it by uploading to RUclips, etc...
Commercially viable film as art is perhaps dead but film isn’t dead as an art form.
David Lynch is so gracious and kind. You can see he is getting impatient with this kid's silly questions. But the kid doesn't adapt his scripted questions as he is going along. Once Lynch said that the ideas are the foundation, that blew everything on his piece of paper away and he should just have asked Lynch to talk about whatever he liked.
Fuck, that would be a chill job. Being an interviewer and just saying to the subject "go ahead, yap about what ya want. i don't give a shit." That's genius. Then, after moments of Lynch talking about "ideas" and waving his hands around, you wake up and go "alright, that'll do." Then you just cash in. Nice!
@@BackyardPix well, the interviewer isn't really the important person in this vid and it's focus, so it doesn't really matter what he does, says or thinks or why or whether he, like many, want to be paid for not doing their job..in context of this.
@@BackyardPix The best interviewers are so dialed into their subjects that they can allow them to talk whilst gently steering the conversation. They know when to go with the prepared questions and when to go with the flow.
Why do you only ask questions that he has ansered many times before. This Must be so boring for Lynch.
this was his first interview conducted for TP:TR at the start of 2017.
totally - this interviewer is dull as dishwater. Lynch is literally glowing and as more and more dull questions are asked you can see the light fading from his eyes. I had to turn it off.
@King Kong it would have been better just to riff off whatever Lynch threw out. I think the main problem was this interviewer "insisted" on sticking to his plan. Inflexible little bitch!
you guys are a bunch of shit heads
(that's right, gotta keep the name-calling going)
What a nice man
look at that hair!! gorgeous
I love his voice
No noncence Artist.
nonsense***
I just love him!!
I love this crooked smile
Art house is not dead if you believe. If you believe clap your hands. Clap your hands and say, I believe in art house. Again, I believe in art house. Louder! I BELIEVE IN ART HOUSE! I BELIEVE IN ART HOUSE! I think i'll just move to the woods in Canada and live off the land till I'm eaten by something.
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Art house is not dead I'm keeping them alive in my life u just have to make it ur art home
I believe in art house!
S!
we are need 'mr finger - can you feel it' song, but replace 'house' with 'arthouse' and then we can dance, we can clap our hands and prey in our houses for arthouse!
art house is dead. look at overrated film trash like the light house. It's already dead.
Wearing a nice tie, you know how hard it is to find a tie like that. Very.
HOW'S ANNIE?
" His eyes are good eyes" David Foster Wallace
Such a handsome gent!
Genius!!!
Very Nietzschesque title but he forgot to say we killed it.
Technology and artists working from home(with too much real life sneaking in), is what killed "arthaus"-culture. Why go to some Warholian sanctuary benefactored by some wealthy, hip arts patron, when you can stay home and mass-interface and mega-network your content right on to YT/other social media? The reviews are a lot less harsh for a fragile millennial-younger artist, when you can keep your product in a semi-closed loop with mostly fans/friends critiquing your work. Then the "market" gets flooded with legions of substandard artists seeking to mine the "guaranteed exposure" of the internet, with smaller but dedicated and tabulatable to critical monetization -"followers" globally(due to the global access/content dissemination of the internet). Artists are no longer artists for arts sake. They are now "influencers" and "content-creators". Those terms alone define how the internet is mostly about "filling rented space" and infrastructural suits getting ROI, rather than erecting a genuine platform for art. And many modern-day "artists" are fine with it, so long as they are afforded just enough recognition, regional/national/global fame and ad-revenue checks, to satiate their ego and inflate their disposable income.
Everything you said is spot on.
*heineken!? fuck that shit! pabst BLUEEERIBBON*
i like him on louie
Sublime
I feel like it’s the other way around
well, that's one approach...
Yup.
If it was dead 3 years ago then what is it now? Like undead?
Gotta light?
Can somebody timestamp where the title of this video comes from? My god.
6:00
Why does he say art house is dead??? When ever there's a new art film playing at my local cinema in Boston it always sells out
Well that's Boston and wow I envy you! In my city there's NO art houses, the few that used to exist died out 15 years ago. It's sad and probably many factors contribute to it.
none here anymore....
It’s like comix shops, they are most definitely closing down. 🐯🐯🐯
but the films are shitty
Art house doesn't mean comic book. Lol
He should run for president.
His films leave you puzzled and take you really weird and unusual places. You gotto appreciate the uncommon path
His films are too complicated. The new series of Twin Peaks lacked the charm of the original.
Not enough good non blockbusters.
If we had more quality like...
The Laundromat
The Big Short.
But most art films are pretentious.
Florida Project had nice cinematography and a simple story. I just saw a Brazilian film called Bacurau that was pretty interesting . But he is right, cultural wasteland out there.
3:22
This interviewer doesn’t seem to grasp the fact that Lynch creates from an organic perspective. I’m pointing this out based on the questions that seem juxtaposed as if Lynch creates from a pre planned perspective. It’s apparent Lynch is being as polite as he can with this interviewer.
And cats are fluffy.
What would jack do is the best thing on netflix.... its been said youve been seen with chickens...
Team Arthouse 💯%!
Hollywood needs to be burned down.
Bahaha
you one of the Boogaloo Bois?
Book house Boys