David Lynch - Classic or Dud

Presumably because it's like a first draft epitaph.

Is fall a normal time for the awarding of honorary Oscars? Is there any reason they couldn't give him props on the telecast?

They stopped giving honorary Oscars roughly around the same time they decided they needed 10 best picture nominees.

Heaven forfend we don't get a chance to hear Gerard Butler summarize the plot of The Blind Side for us.

(xpost obv I meant stopped giving the honorary Oscars out on the telecast)

The oscars are bad not good and nobody should pay the slightest attention but these “honorary” ones can be quite funny

Geena Davis (humanitarian), Wes Studi, and Lina Wertmuller also getting em, and i think you can connect the dots

People aren't dots.

Lynch is the old white male dot.

Yeah, the epitaph aspect. I’m just thinking of Altman getting one months before he died.

otoh Spike Lee got one a couple years ago and he's fine

Why do you even need to go on living when you’ve achieved the artistic pinnacle that is the begrudging acknowledgment award

True. Did Hitchcock get his after Family Plot?

earlier, 1968

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2zjm79Esq4

(he was about 4 years younger than Lynch is now)

And for sure had more films in him than Lynch does now.

good thing DL is taking care of himself

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgYiKYlU0AE3Lm4.jpg

Adam Nayman on The Straight Story

https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/5/23/18636764/david-lynch-the-straight-story-20-years-later-cannes

It frustrates me that a lot of Lynch fans I know IRL dont rate this movie because its not grotesque enough (though they'd never admit that's the reason)

I love it but it's such an outlier even I sometimes forget about it.

except in the ways that it's not an outlier (detailed by Nayman).

I'm not saying you're wrong, but I got a chuckle when I read the header for that article.

It frustrates me that a lot of Lynch fans I know IRL dont rate this movie because its not grotesque enough (though they'd never admit that's the reason)

― One Eye Open, Friday, June 21, 2019

Really? I'm not doubting you, but I've never met these people in real life.

The Straight Story is his most Lynchian film wtf

Dunno if I’d say that but it is way lynchian for sure

If I define his ethos, broadly, as, "unearthing the unexpected in the most banal of surfaces," then TSS is at the top of the triumphs.

I think a lot of ppl would say a certain type of dread is a necessary component (but tss isn’t even completely free of that!)

The most Lynchian is definitely a stretch, especially now that we have the all-you-can-eat Lynch buffet that is Twin Peaks season 3.

i was full after ep 8

I find the surfaces of TSS among his creepiest.

I think he called it his most experimental film - he’s also called eraserhead his most spiritual film, and there’s no reason not to take him at his word in either case but I think most would swap those two around (or have IE supercede both on both counts)

The Return is his masterpiece

Have you seen the straight story?

I just went looking for home-video releases of TSS and that is a disgusting situation -- a DVD with package design so bad it looks like a bootleg, and no blu-ray. I demand the Criterion Collection do something about this soonest.

are there different dvd versions? there appear to be at least 3 different cover images for it. I think it's the only feature of his I've never seen. I doubt it will surpass The Return for me, however

Yeah it's afaik the only Lynch work I still haven't seen (aside from the Duran Duran film but come on). They really do need to make with the blu-ray already, gahdammit.

It's still a great movie on DVD.

I will watch it!

Not Straight Story Bluray news but...

Dear Twitter Friends, A Blu-ray of LOST HIGHWAY will be released very soon. It was made from old elements and NOT from a restoration of the original negative. I hope that a version from the restoration of the original negative will happen as soon as possible.

— David Lynch (@DAVID_LYNCH) June 22, 2019

Hih, that's disappointing

great way to kill that BR release...!

Xpost way upthread to Alfred - sure I would say its def not uncommon for me to meet ppl who profess to be super into lynch but aren’t really able to discuss (or in many cases haven’t seen) his movies that don’t feature IN YR FACE horror & grotesquerie. In my experience these are usually people under 40 for whom Lynch’s oeuvre is Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, and [everything else].

those ppl usually haven't seen The Elephant Man either

Or any of his appearances on The Cleveland Show. Philistines.

Kino Lorber responded to David Lynch's tweet from over the weekend. It sounds like Lynch's dissatisfaction with the release is partially his fault.https://t.co/J8NrKe7jLm pic.twitter.com/o1hSEYGKcn

— Eric Dienstfrey (@SignalsToNoises) June 24, 2019

I know that Tim Lucas recorded the commentary track for the Kino Lorber release that Lynch nixed (on general principle - he just doesn't like 'em).

kino strike me as 'budget criterion'.

which isn't to say they haven't put out good things.

I'd say your impression is accurate on both counts.

A Deep Dive Over At The Criterion Forum

Lost Highway, more like Lost Opportunity

it's not his worst (that would be Wild at Heart) but Tuomas is right in that it's clearly a dry run for the shifting identities and inverted realities of Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire, Twin Peaks: The Return etc. But it contains a bunch of sequences that don't really work, and several of the stunt cameos (Marilyn Manson, but also Richard Pryor) take me out of the movie.