I've been getting so many Lynch youtube recommendations since his sad passing, and am just sifting through and enjoying the memories. What's interesting about his work is that there is nothing of his that I have seen multiple times, yet I remember all of them extremely well. Twin Peaks (particularly The Return) and Mulholland Drive are my favourite show and movie respectively, only seen them once. But it's enough. Something about his direction just stays with you, haunting you like a vivid dream. In honour of the man I do intend to revisit them though.
It seems like there are 3 primary Lynch fan categories (generally speaking). #1. Those who are partial to Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks. #2. Those who are partial to the “LA Trilogy” and his darkest stuff overall. #3. The rarer few who prefer The Elephant Man and The Straight Story, yet also seem to like most his other works, too. I can’t say I’ve ever met a Lynch fan that’s prioritized Dune, but there’s always exceptions.
From my experience, Blue Velvet is nowhere near as popular as Twin Peaks. Critics and artists love it, but general fans not so much... I would give my own categories, 1. Twin Peaks fans 2. Film fans who's favourite or one of the favourite director is Lynch 3. Fans of Surreal/Abstract works 4. Those mad lads who think Dune 1984 is the Best movie ever
I'm one. Dune was awful (as a book-firster who watched it as a child), but it's also the only reason I trusted people when they told me to watch Twin Peaks.
The key to understanding Mulholland Drive is knowing that the first two acts involving Rita, Betty, and Adam are from David Lynch's original 1999 TV movie pilot for the Mulholland Drive television series, initially intended as a spin-off of Twin Peaks with Audrey Horne in the main role. All of the storylines from the first two acts of Mulholland Drive are from that two hour pilot, intended to set up the storylines that would play out over the entire first season of the series. Adam was supposed to move in to Betty's apartment complex while hiding out from the mob, and become involved with Betty and Rita's storyline involving the mystery of the dead body they discovered, and the mystery of Rita's real identity. Betty would also go from having a small part in Adam's movie to eventually having a lead role, and become romantically involved with Adam. When ABC canceled the series after one viewing of the pilot, Lynch was left with a two hour pilot and no series, so he filmed an additional third act that made the first two acts from the TV pilot all a dream and released Mulholland Drive as a cinematic release.
@@NeekoWatchesMovies Yep, but it also takes away some of the mystique of the film. It's one thing to think that Mulholland Drive was structured the way it was intentionally. It's quite another to realize that this was a story was was supposed to play out quite differently over an entire television season, and the cinematic version was basically Lynch attempting to take the lemons ABC left him and make lemonade.
@@44excalibur I think it's delicious when frauds are exposed for what they are, and Mulholland Drive plays like it was shot - a pretentious and thoroughly dull affair, but I did like Eraserhead and Blue Velvet.
It doesn´t matter how the movie was intended; the end product is all that matters. The audience has to make sense what´s in front of her, not what originally was intended.
Of the ones I’ve seen: 1. Fire Walk With Me 2. The Elephant Man 3. Blue Velvet 4. Wild At Heart 5. Lost Highway 6. Eraserhead 7. Mulholland Drive 8. Dune
Wow we have kinda similar rankings I havent finished Twin Peaks S2 yet so I havent gotten to FWWM but my ranking is 9. Dune 8. The Straight Story 7. Inland Empire 6. Eraserhead 5. Elephant Man 4. Wild At Heart 3. Blue Velvet 2. Mulholland Drive 1. Lost Highway David Lynch is my favourite director of all time so there isnt one I dont like, even Dune which is bad but I find it quite charming. My entire top 3 are five stars and Twin Peaks is building up to be one of my favourite shows so far!
Eraserhead. Imaging being dragged to the midnight movies in ‘79 by your buddy who tells you your going to see a movie called Eraserhead. He won’t explain it further. The theater is dark. The print isn’t pristine, so it could have been from forty years previous. You don’t know who David Lynch is. It scares the living ssss out of you. THAT is impact.
@ moreso just if polanski made a film a year later, elephant man would have probably picked up an Oscar. Id rather good people and better art be rewarded.
Great video. Was worth the wait to see my favourite director ranked. My ranking would be 10. Dune 9. Eraserhead 8. The Straight Story 7. Inland Empire 6. The Elephant Man 5. Blue Velvet. 4. Wild At Heart. 3. Mulholland Drive. 2. Fire Walk With Me. 1. Lost Highway.
Excellent video. Lynch is hard to rank because they're all SO good in different ways (and I am also a massive Twin Peaks fan). Mulholland Drive is not only my favorite Lynch film, but quite possibly my favorite film of all time. Nice to see Wild At Heart so high here too, a lot of rankings don't show that film enough love. The only one I have never seen is Dune, and I do need a rewatch of Inland Empire, it's been over a decade since my first and only watch of that.
Aye good to see another person with FWWM as their #1. If you had to place The Return somewhere where would you put it on this list? For me personally it’s 2 or 3 just an insane project of his
Probably behind lost highway for me. Love it to death but cant argue against the idea at times that its extremely boring. Maybe one of my favorite lynch endings though.
A lot of people don’t seem to get how good Blue Velvet is, but you’ve nailed it here. It’s easily one of Lynch’s best, and it encapsulates perfectly his idea that there is a whole world of trouble under the surface. The prototype for Twin Peaks too - a mystery, an investigation, an inquisitive lead played by Kyle MacLachlan and a very dark character - for Bob, read Frank. Just for fun, my ranking would be: Dune Eraserhead Wild at Heart The Elephant Man The Straight Story Lost Highway Inland Empire Fire Walk With Me Mulholland Drive Blue Velvet Twin Peaks - see below: As for the TV show Twin Peaks, this is maybe Lynch’s best work out of everything, with The Return his magnum opus. Episode 8 of The Return perhaps his ultimate work.
Great video ! My ranking (although i'm not sure) : 10. Dune 09. Twin peaks : fire walk with me 08. Inland empire 07. The elephant man 06. Blue velvet 05. The straight story 04. Wild at heart 03. Eraserhead 02. Lost highway 01. Mulholland Dr
1. Mulholland Drive..fav film all time (never understands people's confusion) 2. Inland Empire (people overthink to much watching this) 3. Blue Velvet 4. Lost Highway 5. Wild at Heart 6. Elephant Man 7. Fire Walk with Me 8. Eraserhead 9. Straight Story 10. Dune
Lynch is one of the only directors that I can accept any ranking haha. All his movies are so dif, yet similar and so unique that it's really just personal preference. My top 2 is Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive...the rest can change here and there. If Twin Peaks counts then that would be 3. Also prefer the 3rd season to the first 2 when it comes to that. Good video and breakdown of your opinions and appreciation for the man.
Good video man. Inland Empire doesn’t get enough live though. My ranking, based on enjoyment and return views would be. 10: Dune 9: the straight story 8. Lost Highway 7. The Elephant Man 6: Wild at Heart 5: Eraserhead 4: Blue Velvet 3: Mulholland Dr 2; Inland Empire 1: Twin Peaks: FWWM
I’m the guy who criticized u for not acknowledging conservative art. Clicked this video as a Lynch fan and must give credit where credit is due: switch around Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive (and maybe Blue Velvet and FFWM) and I agree with your ranking. You ask what you didn’t give enough love to and I would answer: it sounds like you couldn’t possibly convey what you love about Lynch in a 20 min video, nor should you be able to. If you’re (still) on a Lynch kick, and even if you are not for your own benefit, I would highly recommend getting into meditation. I have seen his films countless times and I feel more receptive to experiencing them since relating to the sensation of experiencing the quiet blissful feeling that comes with meditation and the rawness and beauty of life coming out of it. All of his films are related to meditation because of meditation’s important need in his life. The Phillip Jeffries sequence in FFWM captured the sensation of touching nothingness and everything all at once and returning to your body and not remembering what happened- the meditative experience- more than anything I’ve seen put to film. Most of his art is filled with noise but profoundly simple when you empty your mind properly. Nice video.
Finally completed his filmography after his passing, I'd been missing a couple. 1. Mulholland Drive 2. Eraserhead 3. Blue Velvet 4. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me 5. Wild at Heart 6. Lost Highway 7. The Elephant Man 8. Inland Empire 9. Dune 10. The Straight Story If I were to rank Twin Peaks TV series in there I would place it in between Mulholland Drive and Eraserhead. Season 1 and Season 3 (The Return) are perhaps Lynch's best work but Season 2 drags it down a bit.
I always debate between Twin Peaks FWWM and Mulholland Drive as my favorite David Lynch films. Both had a huge impact on me. But I think I'd probably give it to FWWM. I love how it goes so deep into darkness, and yet has such an uplifting ending. Sheryl Lee has one of the best performances ever here. Incredible film
If you've only seen David Lynch movies on home video, you haven't seen them -- any more than if you watched them on your phone (and we know how he felt about that). The experience requires that you give up control. You need to plant yourself in a dark room, preferably with other people you don't know, and let the movie determine how you experience time from start to finish (the end of the end credits). Otherwise, you're not entering the dream and you're not watching the movie. You're hijacking it.
I watched TPFWWM in Theaters thats about it. The rest of my experiences are on my home set up in tbe dark. I can promise you I am as locked in as one can be but yes, i hope to watch all of these films in a theater at some point. I was 8 when his last film came out in theaters lmao
@@ignatiusjackson235 Pretentious is pretending you can replicate what it's like to see a movie like "Inland Empire" in a theater by half-watching it on a teeny screen and pausing it whenever you feel like it! I'd quote David Lynch's famous remarks here, but RUclips would probably censor it.
I can't believe he's gone. He had so much more to give. There was no one better. A piece of cinema died today.
I've been getting so many Lynch youtube recommendations since his sad passing, and am just sifting through and enjoying the memories. What's interesting about his work is that there is nothing of his that I have seen multiple times, yet I remember all of them extremely well. Twin Peaks (particularly The Return) and Mulholland Drive are my favourite show and movie respectively, only seen them once. But it's enough. Something about his direction just stays with you, haunting you like a vivid dream. In honour of the man I do intend to revisit them though.
Every watch stays with you. I like that
The news of his passing hit me like a truck. What an amazing career by such an interesting man.
Still cant believe it
Rest in Peace David Lynch!
One of the best artists ever
awesome video, absolutely love David Lynch! one of my favs
Thanks homie!
It seems like there are 3 primary Lynch fan categories (generally speaking).
#1. Those who are partial to Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks.
#2. Those who are partial to the “LA Trilogy” and his darkest stuff overall.
#3. The rarer few who prefer The Elephant Man and The Straight Story, yet also seem to like most his other works, too.
I can’t say I’ve ever met a Lynch fan that’s prioritized Dune, but there’s always exceptions.
Im a mix of 1 and 2
From my experience, Blue Velvet is nowhere near as popular as Twin Peaks. Critics and artists love it, but general fans not so much...
I would give my own categories,
1. Twin Peaks fans
2. Film fans who's favourite or one of the favourite director is Lynch
3. Fans of Surreal/Abstract works
4. Those mad lads who think Dune 1984 is the Best movie ever
@ i love those 4) guys lol
I'm one. Dune was awful (as a book-firster who watched it as a child), but it's also the only reason I trusted people when they told me to watch Twin Peaks.
The key to understanding Mulholland Drive is knowing that the first two acts involving Rita, Betty, and Adam are from David Lynch's original 1999 TV movie pilot for the Mulholland Drive television series, initially intended as a spin-off of Twin Peaks with Audrey Horne in the main role. All of the storylines from the first two acts of Mulholland Drive are from that two hour pilot, intended to set up the storylines that would play out over the entire first season of the series. Adam was supposed to move in to Betty's apartment complex while hiding out from the mob, and become involved with Betty and Rita's storyline involving the mystery of the dead body they discovered, and the mystery of Rita's real identity. Betty would also go from having a small part in Adam's movie to eventually having a lead role, and become romantically involved with Adam. When ABC canceled the series after one viewing of the pilot, Lynch was left with a two hour pilot and no series, so he filmed an additional third act that made the first two acts from the TV pilot all a dream and released Mulholland Drive as a cinematic release.
Yup! Awesome to think he turned this pilot into a feature
@@NeekoWatchesMovies Yep, but it also takes away some of the mystique of the film. It's one thing to think that Mulholland Drive was structured the way it was intentionally. It's quite another to realize that this was a story was was supposed to play out quite differently over an entire television season, and the cinematic version was basically Lynch attempting to take the lemons ABC left him and make lemonade.
@@44excalibur I think it's delicious when frauds are exposed for what they are, and Mulholland Drive plays like it was shot - a pretentious and thoroughly dull affair, but I did like Eraserhead and Blue Velvet.
It doesn´t matter how the movie was intended; the end product is all that matters. The audience has to make sense what´s in front of her, not what originally was intended.
@@praapje It's no use trying to make sense of that turd.
Of the ones I’ve seen:
1. Fire Walk With Me
2. The Elephant Man
3. Blue Velvet
4. Wild At Heart
5. Lost Highway
6. Eraserhead
7. Mulholland Drive
8. Dune
Love an elephant man lover
Eraserhead is in my top three films of all time.
Lets GOOOO. Better everytime
There was a band that actually did a cover album for the music of Twin Peaks, there called Xiu Xiu and I highly recommend you check it out
SOUNDS DOPE
Xiu Xiu forever!
@@paolomolinelli666 i gotta check it ouy
Wow we have kinda similar rankings
I havent finished Twin Peaks S2 yet so I havent gotten to FWWM but my ranking is
9. Dune
8. The Straight Story
7. Inland Empire
6. Eraserhead
5. Elephant Man
4. Wild At Heart
3. Blue Velvet
2. Mulholland Drive
1. Lost Highway
David Lynch is my favourite director of all time so there isnt one I dont like, even Dune which is bad but I find it quite charming. My entire top 3 are five stars and Twin Peaks is building up to be one of my favourite shows so far!
Another lost highway king
@@NeekoWatchesMovies Just finished FWWM
My new favourite Lynch mvoie
great ranking. absolutely love blue velvet, that's my #1. such a masterpiece.
The movie that got me into Lynch
Eraserhead. Imaging being dragged to the midnight movies in ‘79 by your buddy who tells you your going to see a movie called Eraserhead. He won’t explain it further. The theater is dark. The print isn’t pristine, so it could have been from forty years previous. You don’t know who David Lynch is. It scares the living ssss out of you. THAT is impact.
I wish i was seein movies back then haha
Rest in peace David Lynch
The greatest
@ Yup. Incredible story
@ moreso just if polanski made a film a year later, elephant man would have probably picked up an Oscar. Id rather good people and better art be rewarded.
Great video. Was worth the wait to see my favourite director ranked.
My ranking would be
10. Dune
9. Eraserhead
8. The Straight Story
7. Inland Empire
6. The Elephant Man
5. Blue Velvet.
4. Wild At Heart.
3. Mulholland Drive.
2. Fire Walk With Me.
1. Lost Highway.
Oh we love a lost highway guy
Excellent video. Lynch is hard to rank because they're all SO good in different ways (and I am also a massive Twin Peaks fan). Mulholland Drive is not only my favorite Lynch film, but quite possibly my favorite film of all time. Nice to see Wild At Heart so high here too, a lot of rankings don't show that film enough love. The only one I have never seen is Dune, and I do need a rewatch of Inland Empire, it's been over a decade since my first and only watch of that.
Always hard to rank. Lynch was my hardest. What a ride
Aye good to see another person with FWWM as their #1. If you had to place The Return somewhere where would you put it on this list? For me personally it’s 2 or 3 just an insane project of his
Probably behind lost highway for me. Love it to death but cant argue against the idea at times that its extremely boring. Maybe one of my favorite lynch endings though.
PBR isn't half as bad as Budweiser. It's like "low-middle shelf," not as good as Yuengeling, not as bad as Coors or Busch.
A lot of people don’t seem to get how good Blue Velvet is, but you’ve nailed it here. It’s easily one of Lynch’s best, and it encapsulates perfectly his idea that there is a whole world of trouble under the surface. The prototype for Twin Peaks too - a mystery, an investigation, an inquisitive lead played by Kyle MacLachlan and a very dark character - for Bob, read Frank.
Just for fun, my ranking would be:
Dune
Eraserhead
Wild at Heart
The Elephant Man
The Straight Story
Lost Highway
Inland Empire
Fire Walk With Me
Mulholland Drive
Blue Velvet
Twin Peaks - see below:
As for the TV show Twin Peaks, this is maybe Lynch’s best work out of everything, with The Return his magnum opus. Episode 8 of The Return perhaps his ultimate work.
Great
Thanks!
Great video ! My ranking (although i'm not sure) :
10. Dune
09. Twin peaks : fire walk with me
08. Inland empire
07. The elephant man
06. Blue velvet
05. The straight story
04. Wild at heart
03. Eraserhead
02. Lost highway
01. Mulholland Dr
I wanna love the straight story more. Its so heartfelt and american in the best ways
1. Mulholland Drive..fav film all time (never understands people's confusion)
2. Inland Empire (people overthink to much watching this)
3. Blue Velvet
4. Lost Highway
5. Wild at Heart
6. Elephant Man
7. Fire Walk with Me
8. Eraserhead
9. Straight Story
10. Dune
Must watch inland empire again
I still wanna see Naked Lunch’
I love it. Love the book as well
Hey man, can I borrow a few of those blurays? I'd really appreciate it.
Lmao my prized collection of lynchys
@@NeekoWatchesMovies Great video, dude!
@@MilesWilliams88 i really preciacte it king
Im starting to think lynch movies are made for pppl with dementia
LMAO
Lynch is one of the only directors that I can accept any ranking haha. All his movies are so dif, yet similar and so unique that it's really just personal preference.
My top 2 is Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive...the rest can change here and there. If Twin Peaks counts then that would be 3. Also prefer the 3rd season to the first 2 when it comes to that. Good video and breakdown of your opinions and appreciation for the man.
Right! I cant roast any ranking. All are of such quality and such a vision. Thanks king!
Good video man. Inland Empire doesn’t get enough live though. My ranking, based on enjoyment and return views would be.
10: Dune
9: the straight story
8. Lost Highway
7. The Elephant Man
6: Wild at Heart
5: Eraserhead
4: Blue Velvet
3: Mulholland Dr
2; Inland Empire
1: Twin Peaks: FWWM
Wow #2!
I will have to try it again at some point
I’m the guy who criticized u for not acknowledging conservative art. Clicked this video as a Lynch fan and must give credit where credit is due: switch around Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive (and maybe Blue Velvet and FFWM) and I agree with your ranking.
You ask what you didn’t give enough love to and I would answer: it sounds like you couldn’t possibly convey what you love about Lynch in a 20 min video, nor should you be able to.
If you’re (still) on a Lynch kick, and even if you are not for your own benefit, I would highly recommend getting into meditation. I have seen his films countless times and I feel more receptive to experiencing them since relating to the sensation of experiencing the quiet blissful feeling that comes with meditation and the rawness and beauty of life coming out of it. All of his films are related to meditation because of meditation’s important need in his life. The Phillip Jeffries sequence in FFWM captured the sensation of touching nothingness and everything all at once and returning to your body and not remembering what happened- the meditative experience- more than anything I’ve seen put to film.
Most of his art is filled with noise but profoundly simple when you empty your mind properly.
Nice video.
Hey thanks man!
Finally completed his filmography after his passing, I'd been missing a couple.
1. Mulholland Drive
2. Eraserhead
3. Blue Velvet
4. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
5. Wild at Heart
6. Lost Highway
7. The Elephant Man
8. Inland Empire
9. Dune
10. The Straight Story
If I were to rank Twin Peaks TV series in there I would place it in between Mulholland Drive and Eraserhead. Season 1 and Season 3 (The Return) are perhaps Lynch's best work but Season 2 drags it down a bit.
I always debate between Twin Peaks FWWM and Mulholland Drive as my favorite David Lynch films. Both had a huge impact on me. But I think I'd probably give it to FWWM. I love how it goes so deep into darkness, and yet has such an uplifting ending. Sheryl Lee has one of the best performances ever here. Incredible film
Just rewatched FWWM. That ending moves me to tears everytime
1. Mulholland Drive
2. Blue Velvet
3. Twin Peaks (TV show)
Haven't seen The Straight Story, and only made it halfway through Inland Empire.
Purfect
If you've only seen David Lynch movies on home video, you haven't seen them -- any more than if you watched them on your phone (and we know how he felt about that). The experience requires that you give up control. You need to plant yourself in a dark room, preferably with other people you don't know, and let the movie determine how you experience time from start to finish (the end of the end credits). Otherwise, you're not entering the dream and you're not watching the movie. You're hijacking it.
I watched TPFWWM in Theaters thats about it. The rest of my experiences are on my home set up in tbe dark. I can promise you I am as locked in as one can be but yes, i hope to watch all of these films in a theater at some point. I was 8 when his last film came out in theaters lmao
@@bacarandii Wow. Just when you thought David Lynch fans couldn't get any more pretentious!
@@ignatiusjackson235 Pretentious is pretending you can replicate what it's like to see a movie like "Inland Empire" in a theater by half-watching it on a teeny screen and pausing it whenever you feel like it! I'd quote David Lynch's famous remarks here, but RUclips would probably censor it.
I love Inland Empire. I hate to hear this disdain. I vomited on my keyboard as a statement
Haha im sorry!! Maybe one day
Goodbye David.
FWWM is probably one of the saddest stories told in a movie but also profound.
The ending gives me chills. Currently watching TPs