The director is sitting at a table behind a door marked “Private”, specs perched on his nose. The word “FUCK” is tattooed across his knuckles. His hands are shaking and his speech is laboured; he keeps losing his thread. Von Trier explains that the tremors are caused by antidepressants, although they may also be caused by alcohol withdrawal. He is largely sober these days, but recently fell off the wagon. “It’s hard to be in Cannes and not drink,” he says.
It makes me so sad to see him shake like this. I love you Lars, you have changed my entire life. Like I can't even explain it, he is my favorite filmmaker ever. I hope you hang in there for a little longer, if not that's okay too. I can feel your pain dude.
My Danish grandfather (I'm from Canada) had the same disease for more than 15 years. I have hope for Lars, as the research has advanced a lot in the past 15 years... I am saddened to learn from your comment that he suffers from that horrible disease, I have always appreciated his unique style and personal perspective, I saw Danish interviews of him as a kid before even seeing his movies.
@@TheSFHAA isn't it funny? It's like a. scene from a sitcom. He's hiding the under the desk through the whole meeting. Imagine if they found him. Classic sitcom trope.
But, it is a perfect Lynch story, like the set-up, piece setting, that is Twin Peaks. A piece, setting, mood, atmospheric, tales within tales of tales of tales...like life, ongoing, and no resolution, until a series is cancelled or "ends" with contracts, or you or someone elses dies.
It's easy to understand: Lynch was selling "transcendental meditation" that day, surrounded by phonies. Von Trier didn't like that. He never said he didn't liked Lynch's work. It's all about that "transcendental meditation" company or corporation.
What phonies were those? The David Lynch Foundation is a non-religious not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization as is the TM organization itself. Being non-religious, both organizations have to have completely open books because they are not allowed to hide behind the religious label and conceal property holdings and income.
@@senjara5918 so why doesn't he need the chocolates? I agree about the hug though... why would he want some sweaty stranger hugging him? How is that ever good?
Lynch might very well be an imperfect filmmaker. His films and the Twin Peaks series have mistakes, yet he is hardly an ice cream salesman. The fact that he gave conferences to promote Transcendental Meditation doesn't make him a sell-out at all, specially considering that von Trier here confesses to also have been meditating for 15 years. Lynch makes the films and tv shows he wants to make, and if he has to give up artistic control, he exits the project. No hack would do this. The last season of Twin Peaks is a clear example of his artistic merits and pitfalls. Albeit not the perfect series, it is very far from being a commercial product. Von Trier talks as if Lynch had turned into a filmmaker that works solely for the highest bidder and was no longer the artist he once was. Could von Trier be any further from the truth here?
the point he was making about transcendental meditation was completely unrelated to his previous point on Twin Peaks, he isn't drawing any connections between Lynch's TM advocacy and artistic merit, think you might've missed the distinction. Also TM as a business is totally shady, the practice of TM itself does work, but only because it's actually just regular old mantra meditation disguised as something revolutionary by new age capitalist grifters. TM is what happens when you take a valuable spiritual and psychological tool and introduce it to predatory con artists, so it's definitely worth being critical of.
@@analcentipede I've no idea how shady the business of Transcendental Meditation is, but it would've been better for von Trier to mention it. Saying that Lynch is an ice-cream salesman because of his promotion of TM makes his argument come off against the artistic aspects of Lynch's craft. As if he had became a mere salesman and no longer the artist that he was. I am not claiming that there is only one interpretation to von Trier's story, it just would have been more clear if he had alluded to this "predatory con-artists" you mention.
You don't have to explain anything, David Lynch is a genius and a World treasure ❤️ Nobody's opinion is going to change that fact. What he has created will live on forever and it will speak for itself, he's created filmic worlds that only a few mortals could, so yeah, he's simply the greatest film maker alive with Martin Scorsese alongside him.
This pretty much is about Lars being unable to compromise at all. It's well recorded that if the execs interfere too much, Lynch will become annoyed and might leave the project, that's why he never worked for a big movie production after Dune or a TV production after Twin Peaks, but he's willing to make compromises, as he accepts new ideas from his actors, and staff and it's willing to improvise and to at the very least see the current work finished. But Lars can't do that, he has to have all the control, that's why he's a supporter of dictators, he thinks order is worth having a tyrannical leader. He can't accept that accepting external ideas might be part of the auteur project. So an auteur as loose and improv as Lynch who is the complete opposite to a tyrant on the set, someone who can compromise to enrich his vision might as well be a sellout to Lars. As for TM, Lynch might have fallen on the hands of some, pretty non-dangerous, cult, but he promotes it not to scam people, but because it actually helps his artistic vision as unlikely as it might seem., it can be argued that part of his works have TM as a basis.
@@vrilmaxxed I understand. But what he ment isnt about excluding anyone. He admires some, in the edge of being possible to admire. Hes always on the edge. Like i.
That's exactly what happen to me when I went to a transcendental meditation "presentation" (except for the desk thing), I saw Lynch with Donovan and a lot of other personality, try to sell some second hand Indian spirituality with a telesales-man attitude. I don't know if it was the cultural difference between european and usa way of selling things, but it was painful to watch, because I love Lynch as a director and as a philosopher... I decided to send this experience in to The Black Lodge,I’ll think about it in 25 years.
transcendental meditation is a western approach to the real deep meditation, some westerns in india take those ancient mythological concepts about meditation and sell then in the US, there's a real deep meditation but it takes long time training.
@@cris4529 Yeah I agree, that's why I called it "second hand", maharishi yogi brought this technique in the end of '50 but i' m pretty sure he didn't have a 2000 dollars fee in mind to give access to the technique... usually you give access to the ones that are spirituality evolved enough not to the ones that have a big bank account... capitalism is incompatible with spiritually.
@@gmowoman In the conference he said verbatim "you don't have to ask why we ask money for this technique , but why it cost so little"... now, I'm not saying he charge people directly to him (of course) but he was speaking for the foundation...Anyway this conference was made in Italy, many years ago, I don’t know if in the meantime things have changed.
I love the backlash Lars gets for voicing his thoughts. He disrupts the illusions people live in and they strike like vipers at him. I love some things David Lynch has done, but I find it totally accurate that he went from thinking he was the goat to being an ice cream salesman. Funny.
@@mchazelover you’re still doing it that’s funny: “I love the backlash Lars gets for voicing his thoughts. He disrupts the illusions people live in and they strike like vipers at him.”
But his point still stands - Lynch never intended to give us closure. His works are always abstract and up to interpretation, but with Twin Peaks he gave us epic cliffhangers at the end of both the original series and The Return. And that's kind of the point of the show. Not that it's bad. Once you come to terms with it you can actually admire this choice.
@@ivankaramasov Yeah, I'd say that Mulholland Drive is pretty conclusive, even though I've seen some alternative interpretations. Even his most straightforward stories are more open-ended than most films, that's for sure.
@@germanbushin9723 "....epic cliffhangers at the end of both the original series and The Return." ahem, those were not cliffhangers. Twin Peaks is beyond over, baby.
Well, something can be honest all it wants but that doesn’t necessarily make it good. Part of what makes great directors great is translating their messages for everyday application. In other words a relatable element. Alienating the audience will only get you so far. Subversion in the truest sense is when nobody knows it happened at all. While I admire Von Trier’s work greatly it never resonants emotionally with the exception of dancer in the dark and moments of breaking the waves. He leans towards cinematic stunts. Lynch and him are similar in many ways because their both style over everything else, but Lynch is far more emotional.
Even after hearing and seeing this, I still wholeheartedly love both David Lynch and Lars Von Trier, hope LvT pulls through with whatever medical thing appears to be happening with him, wish him the best. While I personally disagree from what I've seen and the brilliant solutions to mysteries Lynch has cleverly improvised without compromising his interpretive dream logic, I don't hold him on as much of a pedestal to ignore that what Trier saw may have been accurate, but I wasn't there, so I can't tell you if he's right or wrong, only about what I've seen from films. Also, Trier also has a tendency to avoid answers questions in his films ("AntiChrist" does not have a clear-cut answer to it's mystery, like Lynch, he keeps it metaphorical) so I'm surprised to hear he feels this way. Best of luck to all.
I felt exactly the same when I first saw Lynch as auteur turned salesman. There was a desperation in it that disturbed, even if his belief in the power of TM is genuine.
I heard speak of TM and was sold to the nth degree-- Then I found out you have to pay money for a mantra/coach and felt betrayed, Something has transformative as he makes it sound should not be hidden behind a paywall.
@@herrklamm1454 Lynch said in at least one interview that he quit tobacco for 25 yrs. At what point, i have no clue because I've seen all kinds of docs and behind the scenes from all decades of him and he almost always has a cig.. But he did claim to have dropped the habit at some point but picked it up again willingly because he just loves tobacco
I feel exactly the same. I love David Lynch and I soak up every word he says like a sponge. But when it comes to that thing something small dies. I even try to do meditation, actually because of him and I really believe that it's a great thing. But the advertising part turns me off completely. I'm against all those things. Also I strongly believe that enlightenment should be free - it's a gift from our ancestors. TM is just one form of meditation - it's the smallest chapter in a 10$ book I own about meditation techniques.
@@randomkiliinterviews9453I don't think it was that at all. I think Lars was making a point about imagining Lynch as this larger-than-life character, when actually all the ways that Lynch isn't larger than life (that he isn't critical about his involvement with TM) are exactly the same psychological things that make him a great filmmaker.
His hands are shaking and his speech is laboured; he keeps losing his thread. Von Trier explains that the tremors are caused by antidepressants, although they may also be caused by alcohol withdrawal. He is largely sober these days, but recently fell off the wagon. “It’s hard to be in Cannes and not drink,” he says.
You have to drink very heavy to get tremours. And it's very unlikely he would have shown up for an interview in heavy withdrawal. It would be more natural just keeping drinking then. My guess is he's sober, and that this is underlying issues like parkinson.
This feeling of a lack of resolution with Lynch may come as an intended consequence of his, as it reflects 'samsarra,' the cycle of death and rebirth, a prominent feauture in Buddhism. Lynch's characters don't simply fall into hell and then there they are kept forever, like in a von Trier movie. Von Trier would make it sound like Lynch is lazy, and then morally deficient. Maybe he is morally deficient (there is something to von Trier saying there is a mercenary quality in David Lynch) but he is not lazy.
I don't think he means lazy, but just an unromantic boring version of someone you would almost expect to be magical. I don't want to see too much of Lynch talking like some regular guy either. You might want to believe he's living in solipsistic ecstasy only possible for the most unique artists
@@4lx123 This. His movies are mostly visual and auditorial and follow emotional logic. Even though you could make a strong case for how this should be a good combination his movies nevertheless always leave me dissatisfied. I wonder if it’s simply so that the format of a movie is best suited for telling complete stories with a beginning, a dramatic climax and an end with a character arc progressing through the story. These movies I truly love. Lars for me is something like between someone who makes movies partly based on logic and partly on emotion and that works quite well I feel.
@@plasticweapon Could you explain how Lynch is morally deficient? Most of his movies are morality plays. His movies depict something like the Christian value structure. Good versus evil, a hell like place and a heavenly like place
David Lynch is a great director, along with Kubrick and Scorsese. Kurosawa. I don't agree with TM, and of course he's not perfect, but he's a master at this visual medium craft. Lynch is a solid filmmaker.
I might have done the same seeing an ambush of gang of suits. Nevertheless with David nothing is as it seems, Lars should have grow a pair instead of embracing the apparent disillusion. Beautifully and fun story nevertheless, thank you.
The only thing David is trying to ‘sell’ is world peace. I don’t see what’s wrong with that. The man has been a big inspiration for me for most of my life and I don’t see that changing. 😜 Big fan of Lars’ work as well though. I wish him a peaceful and creative mind. 💙
I love David Lynch, and I agree that he earnestly does want to influence the world for the better. But there is also a commercial aspect to it. The stark duality between the sublime and the grotesque (and the resulting tragicomical absurdity) is the essence of the man's body of work, TM included.
I've long had the feeling that Hideaki Anno is kind of the lovechild of the geek-dom of George Lucas and the crippling depression and religious symbology of von Trier. So the closest view for me would be... Shin Godzilla? But yeah. Actually hearing the man himself talk about japanese monster flicks would be very interesting indeed.
Lars I love your films, but look how long it took you to finish The Kingdom. 😂and by the end, the sum is ultimately not greater than its’ parts. 🤷🏼♀️ Irregardless, I still love The Kingdom for exactly what it is: imperfect perfection…which is the same exact love I have for Twin Peaks. Also, I don’t believe you would have even made the stylistic, surreal masterpiece that is The Kingdom if not for the masterpiece that is Twin Peaks. The influence of Lynch’s groundbreaking show is strongly felt throughout your paranormal wierd strange and wonderful little number. And for those who don’t know: in the 90’s Lars made a Danish show that’s a straight up acid trip, called The Kingdom. Set in a hospital, with completely unique characters and surreal, unusual happenings, all teetering on the edge of insanity, it remains one of my favorite shows of all time. Interestingly, just like Peaks, it was without a proper ending for literally decades, then finally wrapped up recently…coincidentally just a couple years after Twin Peaks: The Return. 🤔. So Lars, pay homage where homage is due. And to quote your closing words that played at the end of every The Kingdom episode, never forget to “take the ✝️ with the 😈”….even if it’s in the form of an imperfectly perfect show.
I had Lars Van Trier all wrong. The Shocks in his film served a purpose to his Depression and Catholic beliefs, that what the Characters were doing was not good. The end of days and judgement, when people loose all Morality. The Trilogy of Depression was Biblical and Satirical including the House that Jack Built. I thought you were a terrible person, but after diving into Psychology, Theology and Philosophy, I get it. Johnathan Swift and George Orwell had to explore these dark themes, when they saw the World go to shit. Skoal or Cheers from America. 🥂🍻🍸🍷🍹
I disagree with this common interpretation of Lynch's movies - that they deliberately don't resolve or have ambiguous stories. All of his works (except maybe Inland Empire which I can't understand at all) have straightforward stories that, if he wanted to, Lynch could just tell you outright. They only appear ambiguous because they often a) are told out of chronological order and b) contain supernatural elements. It always bugs me when people say that, e.g., Mulholland Dr. is just a series of weird, crazy scenes, because that's not what it is at all.
weird to me that he'd liken Lynch's spreading awareness of TM to "selling ice-cream". That's definitely a him problem. Hiding under a desk to avoid meeting him definitely suggests to me that he's got the wrong idea 😂
I'd say almost all of Lynch's films resolve and conclude, resoundingly, hauntingly. And I'd buy his trancendental ice cream over Von Trier's cynical swill any day.
@@chevon5707 ... there are no meetings.. and there are no directives.. it’s not a cult. You pay your trained instructor once for a 4 day crash course to learn the technique and a specifically chosen frequency based mantra that suits your personality and vibe. But yes the TM people are very nerdy and obtusely normal people. It’s not religion based. It just works. And very well. Stop spreading fud, it’s not a cult. I think the point was that he was a kid and ignorant and it’s funny now because he also does TM. That’s the fucking punch line.
@@devixszell did you know that despite your instructor telling you it's a meaningless word-sound, your mantra is a direct invocation of a specific hindu deity? no? I'm sure there are more things you'd be surprised that you've been lied to about.
The key is to understand who is dreaming by keeping in mind how dream logic works. By doing this you can "paint" the whole work and it becomes more understandable. So my theory is that the one who dreams is either a rapist with some regrets (the finale emphasizes "some" because what he does to the victim is sadistic) or the one who is dreaming is a rape victim and both versions work. Whoever is ,tries to understand where the evil comes from by messing with metaphysics, but I forgive it because we're in a dream world and the feeling of searching,fear is very much emphasized. From Blue Velvet to Inland Empire and Twin Peaks still Lynch asks the question and this time even mocks the simplistic dream logic with the fist guy,etc. You need philosophy,history,economics to understand "where the evil comes from" and is not Judy,lol,but you can feel the need to know it and fight it,the empathy for the victims.It's about the mood and the question. You can't be serious artist and think you can answer something so complex only with art form.Also Lynch looks really angry,with sharp humor and sensitive to the darkness around him.Philadelphia and New York neighborhoods shaped his dark art.I know new age bs/"transcendental meditation" are stupid but the guy may needs it to not go crazy. Trier is one of the worse directors i have see with his stupid montage and his shaking camera.If you want the meta element you must find something more clever,this is just stupid crudiness.Antichrist has so f good scenario and actors' direction for example and f it with these two elements.
love the opening scene of the idiots .main characters tease others but actually you lars tease them (the main characters).. brilliant scene 😍whereas david in twin peaks does slightly different things... what conclusion one can make of waterfalls? this is what david is doing. striving for beauty in every single scene 😍 the way you did in melanсholy 😍 lars are you still meditating ? wonder what way 😂🙊 gosh i mean a good deep sleep is the best way to meditate . love you lars 🌹
He has done some messed up things, has an evil Personality to a certain degree. I think he's the great trickster of the modern culture. But I still Love his art, he's in way more than a film maker, he's like a savior of the modern cinema. He swears being this materialistic Atheist but also manages to make these deep spiritual movies in our time. His playfulness is mind-blowing.
@@Garrett1240 for sure he was. Lynch is a sweetheart good boy and no one would said he's evil lol (and i dont even think Lars is "evil" whatever that means)
I love Lars but gotta disagree with him about all of this. Every one of Lynch's puzzles he has made has a clear conclusion and an answer to all the mystery. His whole view of Lynch is very weird though... He didn't even finish season 1 of Twin Peaks but then claims that Lynch never could stick the ending..... lol Maybe if he had actually watching the ending before commenting, he would feel differently. Hard to take his criticism seriously when he is criticizing only the parts he hasn't seen.
@@drumbottle?🤯🤯🤯 Fucking A. One of the most remarkable, bizarre, shows I've seen Seeing it stoned and getting pissed? Do so at your own risk of retaining sanity
Lynch numerous times said that his projects start with striking images in his brain. His movies are just series of images, you can get any meaning out of them.
That is one thing he has said. He's also stated that his movies have to have a meaning for him in order to construct them and come up with more ideas. This is what will always separate professionals from amateurs - it is creativity plus logic. As david has said "intellect and intuition working together."
Wrong. He has also said that every single film he has made makes perfect sense and has a clear conclusion when you put it all together though... He absolutely does start with single images and go from there, but contrary to Von Trier's claim, Lynch always does have a definitely ending... whether you understand it or not is entirely up to you though. He is very adamant that he does put specific meanings in his film and that they are not just open to interpretation. He has stated this in countless interviews.
You do take a chance when you try to meet your idols. I get where he's coming from. I've been interested in TM for some time and hearing Lynch speak so joyfully about it is so tempting but the price tag and the videos on the TM site prove to me that it's a scam. The information on how to learn should be freely given or at least affordable to most.
Lynch did expect a larger meaning but was not allowed to bring it to fruition by the tv network so he stepped away second season. TP was killed and he never was able to do what he really wanted especially after the film was not well received. The new TP’s in a sense is the exploration of that death. Great example of how this was so ruclips.net/video/7AYnF5hOhuM/видео.html
To any Danes reading this: does the majority of people outside Copenhagen talk this slow? I'm contemplating learning Danish, because it seems more accepting of a slow way of speaking, especially compared to Spanish :)
No, he used to speak much quicker and "normal" (look up old interviews of him) - he's suffering from powerfull trembles which slows him down because of the medication he's taking. But danish in generel is slower than italian and spanish ;)
I think his perception of Lynch and his work is just the projection of expectations because he doesn't know Lynch very well. He's always been a man selling ice cream to some extent he said for years he likes to go out for chocolate soft serve malts and milkshakes he likes coffee and cigarettes too so I suppose he "sells" or promotes that also. Twin Peaks certainly did have a conclusion if you just view it as a murder mystery about who killed Laura Palmer we know it was her Father just the whole thing was made into a surreal miniseries so there are many dramas unfolding simultaneously. Lynch likes dream like atmospheres and dreams don't always have satisfactory conclusions either it has to do with the subconscious "the owls are not what they seem" and many things are not as they seem. Some things are as they seem but some don't want to see them as they are in Blue Velvet they just want to see the rose bushes not the compost and bugs beneath just the pretty surface picture. Lynch talks about meditation that way too many things beneath the surface the deeper you dive the bigger the ideas.
The story shows he was wrong about Lynch from the beginning: The Pilot aside, the credit for the original Twin Peaks should go to Mark Frost as much as (if not more) to Lynch; S2, Fire Walk With Me and The Return are certainly not providing closure - quite the opposite.
@@AcidelCyqage its a matter of personality, he could have all the awards of the world and still have a jealous personality. DAve Mustaine an incredible frontman and guitar player who create Megadeth, still envy Metallica. Lars is an outstanding filmaker so it is David Lynch... its a matter of the way you see the world around, that comes with you.
loved watching his films which made me understand who I am as a woman. it hurts to see him shaking... he is definitely not a child of this wokeness today.
I generally love Von Trier's films but the story about Lynch is strange - LVT is put off by the 'suits' but was prepared to meet up with Lynch who is famous for wearing Bermuda shorts and sandals ;) (sarcasm). Sure, I know what he means by 'suits' but it's still immature of him to not realise the subtleties of appearance and behaviour, that a person can be well dressed can LOOK 'corporate' while maintaining their individuality inside - a large portion of the population does that every day.
Maybe some nuance was lost in the English transcription. It's extremely clear to me in Danish what he means. He already knew that TM was a new age cult before the meeting. But because of his great admiration for Lynch he was initially prepared to go ahead with the meeting. When he saw the suits, it forced himself to confront what kind of meeting he was walking into and that he couldn't go through with it without losing his admiration for Lynch. They could have been wearing monk's robes and it would have had the same effect. The clothes was just a trigger; we can imagine that if they'd looked "normal" he would have had the meeting and then lost his admiration. A lot of people seem to have thought this is the story of how he lost his admiration for Lynch but it's the literal opposite. It's the story of how he prevented himself from losing his admiration for Lynch.
I never understood why Lynch, who wasn't pleased with the development of the second season of Twin Peaks, that was forced upon him, continued in the same, even more jumbled, vein in 'Fire walks with me' and in the Twin Peaks revival series. And it is also a fact that Riget resembles Twin Peaks a bit in going from the peculiar to the all compassing supernatural, but Riget is much stronger. Concerning the story: is this the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Furthermore, it pains me to see Lars von Trier in this condition, I have had family members being attained by the same illness, and I wish him all the best and much courage.
Season two was like amateur directors trying really really hard to emulate Lynch but failing miserably simply by missing the point of perception. The revival was completely genuine.
@@91bpatrick yes, but still, maybe because of my own expectations I thought I was going to see a closure/resolution of the series or a reboot, but it wasn't either.
I don't really get what he's saying. Is he saying he's admiring Lynch, or is he saying he's overrated, or is he saying he didn't like Jehova's Witnesses? I don't get it. I am hoping he likes Lynch because I love the guy :( And what does he mean he's selling ice cream? I'm so confused
Trier is a great director, but he likes to hang onto pointless situations and excuses to call out almost anyone and anything and look like the strong unconventional guy, that's why he is pretentious. As long as he's a great director though i don't even care about him as a person, honestly.
Calling out people has become the new way of making a reading or an argument. With Lynch, form is content in the richest way. Meaning is created by the viewer or reader in collaboration with the artist, not through something placed as an intentional meaning. I have never felt a lack of meaning in any David Lynch , especially not in Twin Peaks.
Who did he "Call out"? He was talking about a real disappointment that he experienced when he met Lynch. He expressed that even though he shared an interest and was practicing meditation, that Lynch seemed more like a salesman, surrounded by "Yes Men" who were also part of the movement. I have watched Lynch give speech about meditation, and Von Trier is absolutely right. He isn't "Calling out" Lynch at all. It really bothers me as well, and I'm a huge fan of Lynch's work, but hate the work of Von Trier.
So sad. Shaking like that is way past being just a side effect... i really hope they change up his medication soon cuz this clearly isnt working well for him.
You can feel anyway you want about the meditation techniques of TM and far be it from me to criticize someone's spiritual practice...but if LVT has really been meditating for 15 years and still got that freaked out by the physical presence of a couple of guys in suits, he's making zero spiritual progress. He should pony up the TM fee, it's sorta designed for rich people like him to feel like they're receiving something of worth.
Longer version of the interview here: ruclips.net/video/pXWcl6OuVw8/видео.html
I love his art. Hurts me when seeing him shaking like this. Hangin there, Lars.
Is he sick?? This is awful
Parkinson's? My great grandfather had that.
The director is sitting at a table behind a door marked “Private”, specs perched on his nose. The word “FUCK” is tattooed across his knuckles. His hands are shaking and his speech is laboured; he keeps losing his thread. Von Trier explains that the tremors are caused by antidepressants, although they may also be caused by alcohol withdrawal. He is largely sober these days, but recently fell off the wagon. “It’s hard to be in Cannes and not drink,” he says.
@@am2023 that's parkinson's an autoimmune disease, makes u to move your limbs uncontrollably.
@@cris4529 No, he says in the same interview that he is shaking like that because of the psychiatric drugs he is on. They have physical side effects.
It makes me so sad to see him shake like this. I love you Lars, you have changed my entire life. Like I can't even explain it, he is my favorite filmmaker ever. I hope you hang in there for a little longer, if not that's okay too. I can feel your pain dude.
We all will shake one day
@@J-J1455 he was diagnosed with Parkinsons...his shaking isn't just old man shaking.
@@jevinday we all will shake one day
My Danish grandfather (I'm from Canada) had the same disease for more than 15 years. I have hope for Lars, as the research has advanced a lot in the past 15 years... I am saddened to learn from your comment that he suffers from that horrible disease, I have always appreciated his unique style and personal perspective, I saw Danish interviews of him as a kid before even seeing his movies.
“I can tell you a really funny story about Lynch.”
* tells a story about himself *
and a story that's not really funny at all...
hahahah, yeah, Lars Von Trier is still Lars Von Trier :-)
@@TheSFHAA isn't it funny? It's like a. scene from a sitcom. He's hiding the under the desk through the whole meeting. Imagine if they found him. Classic sitcom trope.
But, it is a perfect Lynch story, like the set-up, piece setting, that is Twin Peaks. A piece, setting, mood, atmospheric, tales within tales of tales of tales...like life, ongoing, and no resolution, until a series is cancelled or "ends" with contracts, or you or someone elses dies.
@@williamneal9076 true that!
It's actually a very Lynchian story.
aw, this makes me cry..
It's easy to understand: Lynch was selling "transcendental meditation" that day, surrounded by phonies. Von Trier didn't like that. He never said he didn't liked Lynch's work. It's all about that "transcendental meditation" company or corporation.
What phonies were those?
The David Lynch Foundation is a non-religious not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization as is the TM organization itself. Being non-religious, both organizations have to have completely open books because they are not allowed to hide behind the religious label and conceal property holdings and income.
Why assume he was surrounded by phonies in first plce?
It's funny that the David Lynch story sounds like a scene out of Riget.
I wanna give this guy a hug, some chocolates, and a stern handshake. I think he needs it.
No, he doesn't.
@@senjara5918 what has he ever done except great films?
@@starkingbiker ? If you mean that every film he'd made is great, I completely agree :)
Mehh... Lars just loves to drink
@@senjara5918 so why doesn't he need the chocolates? I agree about the hug though... why would he want some sweaty stranger hugging him? How is that ever good?
Lynch might very well be an imperfect filmmaker. His films and the Twin Peaks series have mistakes, yet he is hardly an ice cream salesman. The fact that he gave conferences to promote Transcendental Meditation doesn't make him a sell-out at all, specially considering that von Trier here confesses to also have been meditating for 15 years. Lynch makes the films and tv shows he wants to make, and if he has to give up artistic control, he exits the project. No hack would do this. The last season of Twin Peaks is a clear example of his artistic merits and pitfalls. Albeit not the perfect series, it is very far from being a commercial product. Von Trier talks as if Lynch had turned into a filmmaker that works solely for the highest bidder and was no longer the artist he once was. Could von Trier be any further from the truth here?
the point he was making about transcendental meditation was completely unrelated to his previous point on Twin Peaks, he isn't drawing any connections between Lynch's TM advocacy and artistic merit, think you might've missed the distinction. Also TM as a business is totally shady, the practice of TM itself does work, but only because it's actually just regular old mantra meditation disguised as something revolutionary by new age capitalist grifters. TM is what happens when you take a valuable spiritual and psychological tool and introduce it to predatory con artists, so it's definitely worth being critical of.
@@analcentipede I've no idea how shady the business of Transcendental Meditation is, but it would've been better for von Trier to mention it. Saying that Lynch is an ice-cream salesman because of his promotion of TM makes his argument come off against the artistic aspects of Lynch's craft. As if he had became a mere salesman and no longer the artist that he was. I am not claiming that there is only one interpretation to von Trier's story, it just would have been more clear if he had alluded to this "predatory con-artists" you mention.
You don't have to explain anything, David Lynch is a genius and a World treasure ❤️ Nobody's opinion is going to change that fact. What he has created will live on forever and it will speak for itself, he's created filmic worlds that only a few mortals could, so yeah, he's simply the greatest film maker alive with Martin Scorsese alongside him.
@@srinivassridhar5151 Hey man I just let David know you said this, he really appreciates it
This pretty much is about Lars being unable to compromise at all.
It's well recorded that if the execs interfere too much, Lynch will become annoyed and might leave the project, that's why he never worked for a big movie production after Dune or a TV production after Twin Peaks, but he's willing to make compromises, as he accepts new ideas from his actors, and staff and it's willing to improvise and to at the very least see the current work finished.
But Lars can't do that, he has to have all the control, that's why he's a supporter of dictators, he thinks order is worth having a tyrannical leader. He can't accept that accepting external ideas might be part of the auteur project. So an auteur as loose and improv as Lynch who is the complete opposite to a tyrant on the set, someone who can compromise to enrich his vision might as well be a sellout to Lars.
As for TM, Lynch might have fallen on the hands of some, pretty non-dangerous, cult, but he promotes it not to scam people, but because it actually helps his artistic vision as unlikely as it might seem., it can be argued that part of his works have TM as a basis.
Hang in there Lars goddammit
What can I say? I understand the man!
"I sympathize with him a little bit but come on..."
@@vrilmaxxed Come on what?
@@UpRisingDown "I'm not for second world War, I'm not against jews, I'm very much for jews, no not too much because Israel is pain in the ass..."
@@vrilmaxxed I understand. But what he ment isnt about excluding anyone. He admires some, in the edge of being possible to admire. Hes always on the edge. Like i.
@@vrilmaxxed cry jew
Wow...this story is really bizzare and I really understand him
Absolutely honest and wonderful. The fall of his admiration. I love it !!
That's exactly what happen to me when I went to a transcendental meditation "presentation" (except for the desk thing), I saw Lynch with Donovan and a lot of other personality, try to sell some second hand Indian spirituality with a telesales-man attitude. I don't know if it was the cultural difference between european and usa way of selling things, but it was painful to watch, because I love Lynch as a director and as a philosopher... I decided to send this experience in to The Black Lodge,I’ll think about it in 25 years.
transcendental meditation is a western approach to the real deep meditation, some westerns in india take those ancient mythological concepts about meditation and sell then in the US, there's a real deep meditation but it takes long time training.
@@cris4529 Yeah I agree, that's why I called it "second hand", maharishi yogi brought this technique in the end of '50 but i' m pretty sure he didn't have a 2000 dollars fee in mind to give access to the technique... usually you give access to the ones that are spirituality evolved enough not to the ones that have a big bank account... capitalism is incompatible with spiritually.
Was david lynch charging people to learn about meditation?
@@gmowoman In the conference he said verbatim "you don't have to ask why we ask money for this technique , but why it cost so little"... now, I'm not saying he charge people directly to him (of course) but he was speaking for the foundation...Anyway this conference was made in Italy, many years ago, I don’t know if in the meantime things have changed.
@@danilocaposeno It sounds like they've tricked him into a scam, because meditation shouldn't cost thousands of dollars/pounds
heartbreaking seeing him like this.
my grandfather passed away last year at 70 cuz of parkinsons
I pray for his health.
so this is where the scene in RIGET comes from... where the hospital's director is hiding under his desk -
Riget must be older than this story, no?
@@epictetus9221 i dont think so
"I did it for me. I liked It. I was good at it. I was really…I was alive."
Shut up
@@yaboydolphin Make me
SICK of that show
good that Kingdom comes together in the end
Sad to see this. Ten years younger than Lynch, and he appears fifteen years older.
I don’t think you’ve looked at Lynch recently.
@@colin72 He looks pretty good for his age
@@luiginastro8831 smoking will make you age rapidly, once youre old, it will hit you. look at anna karina fuck that shit
Parkinson’s will do that.
@@colin72 I'm watching his daily weather report.
I thought revival was absolutely great. I love it more than the first one.
I love the backlash Lars gets for voicing his thoughts. He disrupts the illusions people live in and they strike like vipers at him. I love some things David Lynch has done, but I find it totally accurate that he went from thinking he was the goat to being an ice cream salesman. Funny.
Lynch is the goat just because you don’t understand his art doesn’t mean he is an ice cream salesman
@@mchazelover You just proved my point. Also Buñuel is the goat of surrealism, not even close.
@@JonathanNelsonOfficial no I haven’t 🤦♂️ you are not the brightest are you
@@mchazelover you’re still doing it that’s funny: “I love the backlash Lars gets for voicing his thoughts. He disrupts the illusions people live in and they strike like vipers at him.”
@@JonathanNelsonOfficial Lynch has more genius in his weather report than Lars has in his career 😂
He should REALLY watch TP: The Return.
But his point still stands - Lynch never intended to give us closure. His works are always abstract and up to interpretation, but with Twin Peaks he gave us epic cliffhangers at the end of both the original series and The Return. And that's kind of the point of the show. Not that it's bad. Once you come to terms with it you can actually admire this choice.
@@germanbushin9723 That is not really true. For example Mulholland Drive is a pretty conventional story, but told from a strange perspective.
@@ivankaramasov Yeah, I'd say that Mulholland Drive is pretty conclusive, even though I've seen some alternative interpretations. Even his most straightforward stories are more open-ended than most films, that's for sure.
@@germanbushin9723 this, I think that if david lynch decides to go back to twin peaks in a few years it'll probably end the same way
@@germanbushin9723 "....epic cliffhangers at the end of both the original series and The Return."
ahem, those were not cliffhangers. Twin Peaks is beyond over, baby.
The best directors after Kubrick. The greatest director of the late 20th century and the best director of the early 21st century.
you're talking about David Lynch or Von Trier
A bold claim. I don’t agree but like the idea of it
In "Mindfuck" movies, he is better.
Ever heard Andrei tarkovsky ?
@@samindumadusanka3149 God damn right!
Loved his art of telling stories. Except for Antichrist where I nearly fainted after watching.
Well I mean isn't that the point
I’m generally immune to disturbing situations/visuals, but antichrist was hard to get through.
and where is the causal connection between the film and fainting?
LVT is too honest, too original for this world. He is so truthful that offends the masses, they are not ready, they will never be
Meaningless traumatic art is not original.
@@sdhomeguide6343 Cry brainlet
Well, something can be honest all it wants but that doesn’t necessarily make it good. Part of what makes great directors great is translating their messages for everyday application.
In other words a relatable element.
Alienating the audience will only get you so far. Subversion in the truest sense is when nobody knows it happened at all.
While I admire Von Trier’s work greatly it never resonants emotionally with the exception of dancer in the dark and moments of breaking the waves. He leans towards cinematic stunts. Lynch and him are similar in many ways because their both style over everything else, but Lynch is far more emotional.
Even after hearing and seeing this, I still wholeheartedly love both David Lynch and Lars Von Trier, hope LvT pulls through with whatever medical thing appears to be happening with him, wish him the best. While I personally disagree from what I've seen and the brilliant solutions to mysteries Lynch has cleverly improvised without compromising his interpretive dream logic, I don't hold him on as much of a pedestal to ignore that what Trier saw may have been accurate, but I wasn't there, so I can't tell you if he's right or wrong, only about what I've seen from films. Also, Trier also has a tendency to avoid answers questions in his films ("AntiChrist" does not have a clear-cut answer to it's mystery, like Lynch, he keeps it metaphorical) so I'm surprised to hear he feels this way. Best of luck to all.
He has Parkinson's. There's no pulling through that, unfortunately.
I felt exactly the same when I first saw Lynch as auteur turned salesman. There was a desperation in it that disturbed, even if his belief in the power of TM is genuine.
I heard speak of TM and was sold to the nth degree-- Then I found out you have to pay money for a mantra/coach and felt betrayed, Something has transformative as he makes it sound should not be hidden behind a paywall.
@@raymungia6812 the excesses of late capitalism. It can’t be that good anyway, Lynch is still addicted to nicotine.
@@herrklamm1454 cigarettes are cool tho to be fair
@@herrklamm1454 Lynch said in at least one interview that he quit tobacco for 25 yrs. At what point, i have no clue because I've seen all kinds of docs and behind the scenes from all decades of him and he almost always has a cig.. But he did claim to have dropped the habit at some point but picked it up again willingly because he just loves tobacco
I feel exactly the same. I love David Lynch and I soak up every word he says like a sponge. But when it comes to that thing something small dies. I even try to do meditation, actually because of him and I really believe that it's a great thing. But the advertising part turns me off completely. I'm against all those things. Also I strongly believe that enlightenment should be free - it's a gift from our ancestors. TM is just one form of meditation - it's the smallest chapter in a 10$ book I own about meditation techniques.
Nobody's perfect. Even Lynch. I just see his addiction to TM as one of his few imperfections.
What did Lars say though ? That he used to admire Lynch but does not anymore? Everything he says is ambiguous. I don't get his point.
@@randomkiliinterviews9453I don't think it was that at all. I think Lars was making a point about imagining Lynch as this larger-than-life character, when actually all the ways that Lynch isn't larger than life (that he isn't critical about his involvement with TM) are exactly the same psychological things that make him a great filmmaker.
I love his integrity here
Lars von ‘just fuck my shit up’ trier
His hands are shaking and his speech is laboured; he keeps losing his thread. Von Trier explains that the tremors are caused by antidepressants, although they may also be caused by alcohol withdrawal. He is largely sober these days, but recently fell off the wagon. “It’s hard to be in Cannes and not drink,” he says.
looks like parkinsons
You have to drink very heavy to get tremours. And it's very unlikely he would have shown up for an interview in heavy withdrawal. It would be more natural just keeping drinking then. My guess is he's sober, and that this is underlying issues like parkinson.
He has Parkinson's. Maybe that wasn't yet revealed when this video was first posted.
The fact that Trier hid rather than meet Lynch and the suits confirms to me what an uncompromising genius he is.
This feeling of a lack of resolution with Lynch may come as an intended consequence of his, as it reflects 'samsarra,' the cycle of death and rebirth, a prominent feauture in Buddhism. Lynch's characters don't simply fall into hell and then there they are kept forever, like in a von Trier movie. Von Trier would make it sound like Lynch is lazy, and then morally deficient. Maybe he is morally deficient (there is something to von Trier saying there is a mercenary quality in David Lynch) but he is not lazy.
Lynch is a painter first. Paintings don't have resolutions. Lynch likes opening doors better than showing you what is behind them.
I don't think he means lazy, but just an unromantic boring version of someone you would almost expect to be magical. I don't want to see too much of Lynch talking like some regular guy either. You might want to believe he's living in solipsistic ecstasy only possible for the most unique artists
@@4lx123 This. His movies are mostly visual and auditorial and follow emotional logic.
Even though you could make a strong case for how this should be a good combination his movies nevertheless always leave me dissatisfied.
I wonder if it’s simply so that the format of a movie is best suited for telling complete stories with a beginning, a dramatic climax and an end with a character arc progressing through the story. These movies I truly love.
Lars for me is something like between someone who makes movies partly based on logic and partly on emotion and that works quite well I feel.
lynch is morally deficient, but it's not because he does product placements or some shit.
@@plasticweapon Could you explain how Lynch is morally deficient? Most of his movies are morality plays. His movies depict something like the Christian value structure. Good versus evil, a hell like place and a heavenly like place
Lars has deep admiration for David Lynch.
Wow. What a tripper. We all see the world through the eyes God gave us.
David Lynch is a great director, along with Kubrick and Scorsese. Kurosawa. I don't agree with TM, and of course he's not perfect, but he's a master at this visual medium craft. Lynch is a solid filmmaker.
I might have done the same seeing an ambush of gang of suits. Nevertheless with David nothing is as it seems, Lars should have grow a pair instead of embracing the apparent disillusion. Beautifully and fun story nevertheless, thank you.
0:09 "We were knocked over by the first Twin Peaks" - I see what you did there, Lars.
7-11 was an inside job
9/11 was a part time job
The most visually talented filmmaker of the past 30 years
I’d say most talented story teller since Shakespeare
Thanks.
I guess I do not know how Lars von Trier is doing or anything about his health.
Has he been sick and is recovering?
He is longtime suffering severe depressions and alcoholism. And is under medication. Hard to bear...
He has Parkinsons.
I just want to meet with him once😔
The only thing David is trying to ‘sell’ is world peace. I don’t see what’s wrong with that. The man has been a big inspiration for me for most of my life and I don’t see that changing. 😜
Big fan of Lars’ work as well though. I wish him a peaceful and creative mind. 💙
I love David Lynch, and I agree that he earnestly does want to influence the world for the better. But there is also a commercial aspect to it. The stark duality between the sublime and the grotesque (and the resulting tragicomical absurdity) is the essence of the man's body of work, TM included.
@@jordanmoscovitch TM isn't commercial, nor is the David Lynch Foundation.
I want to know how Lars von Trier feels about Japanese Godzilla films.
I've long had the feeling that Hideaki Anno is kind of the lovechild of the geek-dom of George Lucas and the crippling depression and religious symbology of von Trier. So the closest view for me would be... Shin Godzilla?
But yeah. Actually hearing the man himself talk about japanese monster flicks would be very interesting indeed.
That's a great idea. I think he'd either say something funny and unexpected or give you a look you'd take to your grave.
Riget/the Kingdom rules and Twin Peaks rules.
I am muy confused about this entire story.
Get well soon Larsie boy
Is lars ill?
suffers from debilitating depression and anxiety. hence the heavy, unrelenting emotion in his movies
@@verraque Parkinson’s?
@@devixszell effects of meds
@@devixszell seems like it
@@devixszell That's what I thought.
Lars I love your films, but look how long it took you to finish The Kingdom. 😂and by the end, the sum is ultimately not greater than its’ parts. 🤷🏼♀️
Irregardless, I still love The Kingdom for exactly what it is: imperfect perfection…which is the same exact love I have for Twin Peaks. Also, I don’t believe you would have even made the stylistic, surreal masterpiece that is The Kingdom if not for the masterpiece that is Twin Peaks. The influence of Lynch’s groundbreaking show is strongly felt throughout your paranormal wierd strange and wonderful little number. And for those who don’t know: in the 90’s Lars made a Danish show that’s a straight up acid trip, called The Kingdom.
Set in a hospital, with completely unique characters and surreal, unusual happenings, all teetering on the edge of insanity, it remains one of my favorite shows of all time. Interestingly, just like Peaks, it was without a proper ending for literally decades, then finally wrapped up recently…coincidentally just a couple years after Twin Peaks: The Return. 🤔. So Lars, pay homage where homage is due.
And to quote your closing words that played at the end of every The Kingdom episode, never forget to “take the ✝️ with the 😈”….even if it’s in the form of an imperfectly perfect show.
Lars seems unnecessarily critical of himself and David just because of a difference in methods. I like both directors.
I had Lars Van Trier all wrong. The Shocks in his film served a purpose to his Depression and Catholic beliefs, that what the Characters were doing was not good. The end of days and judgement, when people loose all Morality. The Trilogy of Depression was Biblical and Satirical including the House that Jack Built. I thought you were a terrible person, but after diving into Psychology, Theology and Philosophy, I get it. Johnathan Swift and George Orwell had to explore these dark themes, when they saw the World go to shit. Skoal or Cheers from America. 🥂🍻🍸🍷🍹
I disagree with this common interpretation of Lynch's movies - that they deliberately don't resolve or have ambiguous stories. All of his works (except maybe Inland Empire which I can't understand at all) have straightforward stories that, if he wanted to, Lynch could just tell you outright. They only appear ambiguous because they often a) are told out of chronological order and b) contain supernatural elements. It always bugs me when people say that, e.g., Mulholland Dr. is just a series of weird, crazy scenes, because that's not what it is at all.
Exactly! The great thing about his movies is that it DOES make sense, it does have a meaning, its just difficult to understand what that meaning is…
It’s very obvious what Eraserhead, Lost Highway and Mulholland Dr are about
Which is?@@91bpatrick
weird to me that he'd liken Lynch's spreading awareness of TM to "selling ice-cream". That's definitely a him problem. Hiding under a desk to avoid meeting him definitely suggests to me that he's got the wrong idea 😂
Wow, comments are so shallow. You better watch fast and furious dudes...
Welcome to today's world. The Internet has given everyone the right to talk, and 99% of us don't have much to say, but want to say it anyway.
you should give us something that isn't shallow then ,or else you are just hypocritically flexing about the great depths of your mind
Actually, Fast and Furious Dudes is a great and profound film about human relationships.
I'm waiting on the more minimalist "Furious Dudes" spinoff, minus all that "Fast and" bruhaha,
Imagine being filtered by fast and furious. Do you need to watch essays to understand films?
I vastly prefer Lynch's movies to Lars'.
I'd say almost all of Lynch's films resolve and conclude, resoundingly, hauntingly. And I'd buy his trancendental ice cream over Von Trier's cynical swill any day.
100%
But that’s so funny because he still ended up meditating for 15 years now... I kinda did the same thing and now I’ve been meditating for 3 lol
I think his point was not that he was against meditation, but the culty, expensive Transcendental Meditation(tm) that Lynch proselytizes
@@chevon5707 ... there are no meetings.. and there are no directives.. it’s not a cult. You pay your trained instructor once for a 4 day crash course to learn the technique and a specifically chosen frequency based mantra that suits your personality and vibe. But yes the TM people are very nerdy and obtusely normal people. It’s not religion based. It just works. And very well. Stop spreading fud, it’s not a cult. I think the point was that he was a kid and ignorant and it’s funny now because he also does TM. That’s the fucking punch line.
@@devixszell If you say another time "it is not a cult" I'll believe you 😂
@@devixszell I can't find any evidence of Lars Von Trier doing TM. What's your source for saying he does TM?
@@devixszell did you know that despite your instructor telling you it's a meaningless word-sound, your mantra is a direct invocation of a specific hindu deity? no? I'm sure there are more things you'd be surprised that you've been lied to about.
The key is to understand who is dreaming by keeping in mind how dream logic works. By doing this you can "paint" the whole work and it becomes more understandable. So my theory is that the one who dreams is either a rapist with some regrets (the finale emphasizes "some" because what he does to the victim is sadistic) or the one who is dreaming is a rape victim and both versions work. Whoever is ,tries to understand where the evil comes from by messing with metaphysics, but I forgive it because we're in a dream world and the feeling of searching,fear is very much emphasized. From Blue Velvet to Inland Empire and Twin Peaks still Lynch asks the question and this time even mocks the simplistic dream logic with the fist guy,etc. You need philosophy,history,economics to understand "where the evil comes from" and is not Judy,lol,but you can feel the need to know it and fight it,the empathy for the victims.It's about the mood and the question. You can't be serious artist and think you can answer something so complex only with art form.Also Lynch looks really angry,with sharp humor and sensitive to the darkness around him.Philadelphia and New York neighborhoods shaped his dark art.I know new age bs/"transcendental meditation" are stupid but the guy may needs it to not go crazy.
Trier is one of the worse directors i have see with his stupid montage and his shaking camera.If you want the meta element you must find something more clever,this is just stupid crudiness.Antichrist has so f good scenario and actors' direction for example and f it with these two elements.
love the opening scene of the idiots .main characters tease others but actually you lars tease them (the main characters).. brilliant scene 😍whereas david in twin peaks does slightly different things... what conclusion one can make of waterfalls? this is what david is doing. striving for beauty in every single scene 😍 the way you did in melanсholy 😍
lars are you still meditating ? wonder what way 😂🙊 gosh i mean a good deep sleep is the best way to meditate . love you lars 🌹
He has done some messed up things, has an evil Personality to a certain degree. I think he's the great trickster of the modern culture. But I still Love his art, he's in way more than a film maker, he's like a savior of the modern cinema. He swears being this materialistic Atheist but also manages to make these deep spiritual movies in our time. His playfulness is mind-blowing.
You''re referring to Lars?
@@Garrett1240 for sure he was. Lynch is a sweetheart good boy and no one would said he's evil lol (and i dont even think Lars is "evil" whatever that means)
I love Lars but gotta disagree with him about all of this. Every one of Lynch's puzzles he has made has a clear conclusion and an answer to all the mystery.
His whole view of Lynch is very weird though... He didn't even finish season 1 of Twin Peaks but then claims that Lynch never could stick the ending..... lol Maybe if he had actually watching the ending before commenting, he would feel differently. Hard to take his criticism seriously when he is criticizing only the parts he hasn't seen.
He said he finished 16 episodes, which is basically the Laura Palmer mystery from beginning to end.
And yet, Trier has not produced anything nearly as exceptional as Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, or Twin Peaks.
Riget exists 🗿
@@drumbottle?🤯🤯🤯 Fucking A. One of the most remarkable, bizarre, shows I've seen
Seeing it stoned and getting pissed? Do so at your own risk of retaining sanity
Lynch numerous times said that his projects start with striking images in his brain. His movies are just series of images, you can get any meaning out of them.
That is one thing he has said. He's also stated that his movies have to have a meaning for him in order to construct them and come up with more ideas.
This is what will always separate professionals from amateurs - it is creativity plus logic. As david has said "intellect and intuition working together."
Wrong.
He has also said that every single film he has made makes perfect sense and has a clear conclusion when you put it all together though... He absolutely does start with single images and go from there, but contrary to Von Trier's claim, Lynch always does have a definitely ending... whether you understand it or not is entirely up to you though. He is very adamant that he does put specific meanings in his film and that they are not just open to interpretation. He has stated this in countless interviews.
@@dmstewart66 exactly.
If that were the case he wouldn't bother with a script.
no matter how big you think you are you NEVER pass on the chance of meeting David Lynch. It's true what you said, you think too much
What’s his boot taste like?
You do take a chance when you try to meet your idols. I get where he's coming from. I've been interested in TM for some time and hearing Lynch speak so joyfully about it is so tempting but the price tag and the videos on the TM site prove to me that it's a scam. The information on how to learn should be freely given or at least affordable to most.
Lynch did expect a larger meaning but was not allowed to bring it to fruition by the tv network so he stepped away second season. TP was killed and he never was able to do what he really wanted especially after the film was not well received. The new TP’s in a sense is the exploration of that death. Great example of how this was so ruclips.net/video/7AYnF5hOhuM/видео.html
He couldn’t be more wrong about Lynch. And to make a snap judgment just because he was in a room with 2 guys wearing suits is nuts
Who were those two guys? Can you extrapolate that information? I think you can't, that's why your opinion is so bad.
@@limpicatto they were industry executives. What the hell are you talking about?
@@Dispensational_David What industry? Because it wasn't about movies that day. It was the industry of spirituality.
@@limpicatto Jehovah’s Witness?
Danish sounds like you're playing a record backwards
In Sweden we say they have a potatoe in their mouth
@@sdfghgtrew That’s funny
Brilliant. I also meditated for 15 years and can't stand someone pushing it as some sort of panacea. Especially religion like TM.
To any Danes reading this: does the majority of people outside Copenhagen talk this slow? I'm contemplating learning Danish, because it seems more accepting of a slow way of speaking, especially compared to Spanish :)
No, he used to speak much quicker and "normal" (look up old interviews of him) - he's suffering from powerfull trembles which slows him down because of the medication he's taking. But danish in generel is slower than italian and spanish ;)
Lars rules ahahah
it is bad to see this great artist like this...
J.J. Abrams would go on to turn that Lynchian mystery box thing into an entire industry.
macguffin
.. and take all the mystery out of it ..
With lens flares.
and lars lars lars
lynch made a masterpiece about studio interference
muholland drive
you know this 😅
This guy is so attached to his brand of cynicism. Love his films. His soul though is burdaned by all kinds of toxicity. My he let it go and heal
He's right
It's called film making
Not life making
Ironically Lars looks and sounds like a Lynch character. 😮
I think his perception of Lynch and his work is just the projection of expectations because he doesn't know Lynch very well. He's always been a man selling ice cream to some extent he said for years he likes to go out for chocolate soft serve malts and milkshakes he likes coffee and cigarettes too so I suppose he "sells" or promotes that also. Twin Peaks certainly did have a conclusion if you just view it as a murder mystery about who killed Laura Palmer we know it was her Father just the whole thing was made into a surreal miniseries so there are many dramas unfolding simultaneously. Lynch likes dream like atmospheres and dreams don't always have satisfactory conclusions either it has to do with the subconscious "the owls are not what they seem" and many things are not as they seem. Some things are as they seem but some don't want to see them as they are in Blue Velvet they just want to see the rose bushes not the compost and bugs beneath just the pretty surface picture. Lynch talks about meditation that way too many things beneath the surface the deeper you dive the bigger the ideas.
かなり満身創痍って感じだな。。
めちゃ震えてる。。
Pobre hombre, con ese estado de salud cualquiera estaría resentido, incluso al grado de hablar mal de un gran cineasta como Lynch.
The story shows he was wrong about Lynch from the beginning: The Pilot aside, the credit for the original Twin Peaks should go to Mark Frost as much as (if not more) to Lynch; S2, Fire Walk With Me and The Return are certainly not providing closure - quite the opposite.
I love Lars, but he is SO jealous hahaha!!!
Why do you think Lars is jealous? Yes, he doesn't have hits like TP, but his filmography is more robust.
@@AcidelCyqage its a matter of personality, he could have all the awards of the world and still have a jealous personality. DAve Mustaine an incredible frontman and guitar player who create Megadeth, still envy Metallica. Lars is an outstanding filmaker so it is David Lynch... its a matter of the way you see the world around, that comes with you.
It sounds to me like he has the exact same complaint that anyone who doesn't like David Lynch would have. It's hard to tell though.
dont meet your heros lars
you should know that 😂
it's one of the most terrible disease in the world, it's always painful to know certain facts.
nup. he doesnt get it. twin peaks the return is the best tv ever made.
Mmmmm, TM is "rubbish", and you go at an a event of them, when they invite you? I mean, what he was thinking to found there?
Jesus, look at his interviews in 2011. He looked middle age then and now 70 years old wtf.
He is 66 years old.
loved watching his films which made me understand who I am as a woman. it hurts to see him shaking... he is definitely not a child of this wokeness today.
I generally love Von Trier's films but the story about Lynch is strange - LVT is put off by the 'suits' but was prepared to meet up with Lynch who is famous for wearing Bermuda shorts and sandals ;) (sarcasm).
Sure, I know what he means by 'suits' but it's still immature of him to not realise the subtleties of appearance and behaviour, that a person can be well dressed can LOOK 'corporate' while maintaining their individuality inside - a large portion of the population does that every day.
Maybe some nuance was lost in the English transcription. It's extremely clear to me in Danish what he means. He already knew that TM was a new age cult before the meeting. But because of his great admiration for Lynch he was initially prepared to go ahead with the meeting. When he saw the suits, it forced himself to confront what kind of meeting he was walking into and that he couldn't go through with it without losing his admiration for Lynch. They could have been wearing monk's robes and it would have had the same effect. The clothes was just a trigger; we can imagine that if they'd looked "normal" he would have had the meeting and then lost his admiration. A lot of people seem to have thought this is the story of how he lost his admiration for Lynch but it's the literal opposite. It's the story of how he prevented himself from losing his admiration for Lynch.
I never understood why Lynch, who wasn't pleased with the development of the second season of Twin Peaks, that was forced upon him, continued in the same, even more jumbled, vein in 'Fire walks with me' and in the Twin Peaks revival series. And it is also a fact that Riget resembles Twin Peaks a bit in going from the peculiar to the all compassing supernatural, but Riget is much stronger. Concerning the story: is this the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Furthermore, it pains me to see Lars von Trier in this condition, I have had family members being attained by the same illness, and I wish him all the best and much courage.
Season two was like amateur directors trying really really hard to emulate Lynch but failing miserably simply by missing the point of perception. The revival was completely genuine.
@@91bpatrick yes, but still, maybe because of my own expectations I thought I was going to see a closure/resolution of the series or a reboot, but it wasn't either.
@@christophedevos3760 never! Mystery is the spice of life
ice cream sellers of the world unite and take over
Funny that David Lynch doesn't know Lars. He said so, when asked in Moscow conference back in 2010. ruclips.net/video/9XtrVlOp65Q/видео.html
I don't really get what he's saying. Is he saying he's admiring Lynch, or is he saying he's overrated, or is he saying he didn't like Jehova's Witnesses? I don't get it. I am hoping he likes Lynch because I love the guy :( And what does he mean he's selling ice cream? I'm so confused
Trier is a great director, but he likes to hang onto pointless situations and excuses to call out almost anyone and anything and look like the strong unconventional guy, that's why he is pretentious. As long as he's a great director though i don't even care about him as a person, honestly.
He's a great dictator too.
Calling out people has become the new way of making a reading or an argument. With Lynch, form is content in the richest way. Meaning is created by the viewer or reader in collaboration with the artist, not through something placed as an intentional meaning. I have never felt a lack of meaning in any David Lynch , especially not in Twin Peaks.
Who did he "Call out"? He was talking about a real disappointment that he experienced when he met Lynch. He expressed that even though he shared an interest and was practicing meditation, that Lynch seemed more like a salesman, surrounded by "Yes Men" who were also part of the movement. I have watched Lynch give speech about meditation, and Von Trier is absolutely right. He isn't "Calling out" Lynch at all. It really bothers me as well, and I'm a huge fan of Lynch's work, but hate the work of Von Trier.
His body tremors are not due to Parkinson's, but are a side-effect of his anti-anxiety medication.
Surely not a side effect of his alcohol abuse over years and years... Sure, sure.
So sad. Shaking like that is way past being just a side effect... i really hope they change up his medication soon cuz this clearly isnt working well for him.
happy to know! It broke my heart seeing him with possible parkinson.
Ice cream man
You can feel anyway you want about the meditation techniques of TM and far be it from me to criticize someone's spiritual practice...but if LVT has really been meditating for 15 years and still got that freaked out by the physical presence of a couple of guys in suits, he's making zero spiritual progress. He should pony up the TM fee, it's sorta designed for rich people like him to feel like they're receiving something of worth.