German filmmaker David Sieveking had just finished film school and was a huge fan of David Lynch. How could he pass up the opportunity to see Lynch when he came to speak about creativity and how to unlock it? How could he possibly fathom that the lecture would lead him on a five year voyage into the world of Transcendental Meditation, viewing the movement from within and without, with an accepting and then a critical eye, and ultimately would lead him on a journey to the source of the Ganges and yield a feature-length documentary, Sieveking's first movie?
For a limited time, David Wants To Fly can be viewed at the Link TV website in its entirety. [~95min]
posted by hippybear
on Jan 17, 2012 -
7 comments
'Dumbland is a crude, stupid, violent, absurd series. If it is funny, it is funny because we see the absurdity of it all.' Fresh off the critical success of
Mulholland Dr. [
previously] in 2001,
David Lynch set out in 2002 to conquer the internet, creating a paywalled website to feature original content like his short film
Darkened Room, an anti-sitcom called
Rabbits, and the intentionally lowbrow
DumbLand.
Featuring animation, music, sound effects, and voice acting entirely by Lynch,
DumbLand is a black and white Flash animation series with a total running time of approximately half an hour.
A few notes on DumbLand from Lynch. [
Also previously: David Lynch's Weather Report] [
And super-previously.]
posted by shakespeherian
on Jun 20, 2011 -
14 comments
Paula K. Shimatsu-u, who
worked behind the scenes at
Twin Peaks, has a book coming out with previously unpublished photos from on and off the set.
Wired has a gallery that boasts, among other delights,
Michael Horse reading a book beside a deer's head, and
Sheryl Lee with Sherilyn Fenn wearing, respectively, a lovely bobble cap and a very fetching jumper.
posted by Stan Carey
on Aug 14, 2010 -
15 comments
He doesn't do metaphors. He doesn't make Postmodern references to other art. He doesn't even know what his own work 'means.' Richard Kovitch on the failure of the Tate Modern's
recent symposium on David Lynch, which featured
Gregory Crewdson,
Louise Wilson,
Chris Rodley,
Parveen Adams,
Simon Critchley,
Roger Luckhurst,
Tom McCarthy (edited remarks
here), and
Sarah Churchwell and
Jamieson Webster (transcription
here), among others.
Write-up on Paris retrospective of Lynch's painting
here, which was collected into the book
The Air is On Fire.
posted by shakespeherian
on Jan 15, 2010 -
121 comments
Full Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse album Dark Night of the Soul is streaming right now on
NPR. Info about album dispute
here.
posted by forallmankind
on May 16, 2009 -
50 comments
TM without the ™. When he's not directing
one of the best movies of the year or
sitting on intersections with cows,
David Lynch is a vocal
advocate of
Transcendental Meditation. In his new book
Catching the Big Fish, he talks about
the Box and the Key, meeting Fellini, the Suffocating Rubber Clown Suit, why he doesn't do DVD commentaries--and TM, which he calls "the experience that does everything." If you're intrigued by TM but sketched out by the
organization and the
$2,500 fee, perhaps you'd like to know that there is a
cheap, downloadable alternative.
posted by muckster
on Dec 3, 2006 -
35 comments
"I would like to do better, to be better than I am". He's the French New Wave
maverick and Academy Award winner (
at 26, for his first short) who, to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz -- with considerable personal pain and the admission that "
no description, no picture can reveal the true dimension" of what happened in the camps -- made what François Truffaut called "
the greatest film ever made", duly
censored by French authorities. Four years later he baffled audiences with "
the first modern film of sound cinema",
shattering the rules of chronology to describe the “anguish of the future”: even if all he ever wanted was "
to stop death in its tracks"
(French language link),
only for one minute. But he is also the unabashed lover of
la bande dessinée who
learnt English by reading comic books and
in the Seventies dreamed (French language link) of making
"Spider-Man" into a movie (the Hollywood studios were not convinced), the
MGM old-school musical and
operetta nut so in love with design that "
half of the fashion photography of the past 40 years owes a debt" to him. Now,
Alain Resnais' new
work, just shown
at the Venice Film Festival where
his buddy David Lynch was awarded a lifetime achievement Golden Lion, is a French film
inspired by an
English play with 54 short scenes, music by the X-Files's Mark Snow. (more inside)
posted by matteo
on Sep 8, 2006 -
20 comments
David Lynch's secret movie (site with annoying, loud sound, sorry) "It's about a woman in trouble, and it's a mystery, and that's about all I want to say about it". Titled "INLAND EMPIRE" (all caps, though Lynch doesn't explain why), it stars Laura Dern, Justin Theroux, Harry Dean Stanton, Jeremy Irons.
Lynch has shot much of his latest film in Poland, after making friends with the organizers of the Camerimage festival in Lodz. He's now back shooting in and around Los Angeles. Even at this relatively advanced stage of production, Lynch is cagey about when it will be finished. It was shot entirely in DV: "I started working in DV for my Web site, and I fell in love with the medium. For me, there's no way back to film. I'm done with it".
posted by matteo
on May 12, 2005 -
36 comments
Lost on "Mulholland Drive." At a film festival in Boulder, Roger Ebert dissects David Lynch's masterpiece frame-by-frame and comes to the conclusion that, well, he doesn't really come to a conclusion.
Or does he?
Meanwhile, the DVD was released last week and instead of a commentary track or funny bloopers, it came with a simple insert that provided "David Lynch's 10 Clues to Unlocking This Thriller." For the sake of space, I'll post them in the comments section and let's see if anyone out there can (or wants to) answer them.
posted by adrober
on Apr 16, 2002 -
58 comments
Robert Crumb is the creator of Zap Comix, Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural, Keep on Trucking, and a lot more classic Underground Art. Tonight at 6:30 pacific time on International Film Channel, the David Lynch Presents/a Terry Zwigoff Film,
Crumb, (Winner Grand Jury Prize Sundance Film Festival). Six years in the making, this documentary profiles a very talented, very strange family. A "creepy, darkly funny, and haunting glimpse", to say the least. If you are interested in the 60s counterculture, Crumb was the man. Art, maladjustment, maybe a touch of insanity? Watch this film.
posted by Mack Twain
on Jan 5, 2002 -
47 comments
