Is David Lynch Done With Making Films?
04-03-12, 09:16 AM
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Re: Is David Lynch Done With Making Films?
Kind of NSFW, and a lot of screaming.
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This is what would happen if David Lynch ever decided to direct a Gregg Araki movie.
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This is what would happen if David Lynch ever decided to direct a Gregg Araki movie.
11-09-18, 08:01 PM
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Re: Is David Lynch Done With Making Films?
BUMP
https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/...-love-in-vain/
David Lynch has been keeping plenty busy in recent years, what with the Twin Peaks revival, his memoir Room to Dream, and expanding his annual Festival of Disruption to New York City. Just last week, he released an album of songs from the ’90s he composed with his longtime musical collaborator Angelo Badalamenti under the moniker Thought Gang. Nevertheless, fans of the surrealist filmmaker will undoubtedly fail to be fully satisfied until the creative finally makes a proper return to the silver screen. And it looks like a return to filmmaking may indeed be in the works.
Lynch has not directed a feature-length film since 2006’s Inland Empire, and given an oeuvre containing such classics as Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, it’s natural that any signal of a new project would be greeted with fervor. There have been a few indications as of late that something is on the horizon, including Lynch being sighted in talks with Netflix.
The latest development comes from a Vulture article in which novelist Jeff Jackson recommends a number of rock music novels. In a blurb about Alan Greenberg’s Love in Vain: The Life and Legend of Robert Johnson, Jackson casually notes that Lynch is apparently in the midst of raising funds to realize Greenberg’s famously unproduced screenplay based on the 1983 book.
Sharing the Love in Vain title, the script tells the half-fable, half-non-fictional story of legendary bluesman Robert Johnson. Lynch has been a longtime fan of Greenberg’s screenplay, having said in 2013 that he would “very much like to direct it someday.” At the time, he qualified his interest by saying “a number of things would have to fall in place before that would occur.”
Lynch has not directed a feature-length film since 2006’s Inland Empire, and given an oeuvre containing such classics as Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, it’s natural that any signal of a new project would be greeted with fervor. There have been a few indications as of late that something is on the horizon, including Lynch being sighted in talks with Netflix.
The latest development comes from a Vulture article in which novelist Jeff Jackson recommends a number of rock music novels. In a blurb about Alan Greenberg’s Love in Vain: The Life and Legend of Robert Johnson, Jackson casually notes that Lynch is apparently in the midst of raising funds to realize Greenberg’s famously unproduced screenplay based on the 1983 book.
Sharing the Love in Vain title, the script tells the half-fable, half-non-fictional story of legendary bluesman Robert Johnson. Lynch has been a longtime fan of Greenberg’s screenplay, having said in 2013 that he would “very much like to direct it someday.” At the time, he qualified his interest by saying “a number of things would have to fall in place before that would occur.”
11-09-18, 08:58 PM
#28
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Re: Is David Lynch Done With Making Films?
A Robert Johnson story directed by Lynch...would...be...AWESOME!
11-10-18, 01:29 AM
#29
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Re: Is David Lynch Done With Making Films?
I'm a big fan and it's a shame DL didn't make more movies than he did.
He has been away from the game a long time...he may not have a muse anymore.
True confessions...I haven't seen his Twin Peaks redux yet.
He has been away from the game a long time...he may not have a muse anymore.
True confessions...I haven't seen his Twin Peaks redux yet.
11-10-18, 01:58 AM
#30
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I would certainly be interested in a Robert Johnson film directed by David Lynch.
11-10-18, 02:38 AM
#31
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Re: Is David Lynch Done With Making Films?
Twin Peaks: The Return is a masterpiece and he obviously hasn't lost his muse.
11-10-18, 09:38 AM
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11-10-18, 03:12 PM
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11-11-18, 08:11 PM
#36
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Re: Is David Lynch Done With Making Films?
I never realized that Lynch has only directed one feature film in the last 16 years.
And it's been 12 years since Inland Empire? Feels like maybe 8 years ago or so.
And it's been 12 years since Inland Empire? Feels like maybe 8 years ago or so.
11-11-18, 08:20 PM
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^ And it’s been almost 20 years since Mulholland Dr.! It feels like it’s only been about 10 years. 
Looking at his filmography it looks like the majority of the movie going public missed a short of his called David Lynch Cooks Quinoa.
The dude’s definitely a kook.
Looking at his filmography it looks like the majority of the movie going public missed a short of his called David Lynch Cooks Quinoa.
The dude’s definitely a kook.
11-11-18, 09:19 PM
#38
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I remember buying the Mulholland Drive DVD at a Target that has since closed.
11-12-18, 02:31 AM
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11-12-18, 06:22 AM
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I posted this in 2012. David Lynch's albums were really solid (The Big Dream and Crazy Clown Time). I listen to this almost daily.
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11-12-18, 01:49 PM
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Lynch is my favorite director and it is a crime that he has directed so little. His short films and music are amazing too. I have watched Twin Peaks every October since it first aired and never get sick of it. The new series was excellent also. I would love a Robert Johnson flick directed by Lynch but his films usually don't make back their budget so I think Netflix would be the way to go.
The Elephant Man, The Straight Story, Lost Highway and INLAND EMPIRE need USA releases on BD now.
The Elephant Man, The Straight Story, Lost Highway and INLAND EMPIRE need USA releases on BD now.
06-26-19, 04:56 PM
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Re: Is David Lynch Done With Making Films?
I moved the discussion about KLSC's Blu-ray release of Lost Highway into its own thread.
06-27-19, 06:51 AM
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Lynch is basically an artist first, who has used film as a medium for much of his work, but I think the guy would be just as happy painting and sculpting the rest of his life if he never got a chance to make a movie again (and he may not, because I've heard none of the major studios will finance any of his ideas...although that may be due to the price he demands ).
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06-27-19, 07:15 PM
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David Lynch is an artist who doesn't produce works at a high rate. Artists like this are frustrating as hell for fans but they work at the rate that they are satisfied by their work and you just have to accept it. His shift to music was a surprise. However, once I listened to the music, I got that he was just an artist creating in another type of media, so he went from being a filmmaker to being a music maker but he was still an artist at work.
06-28-19, 07:29 AM
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06-28-19, 11:11 AM
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06-28-19, 03:26 PM
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I don't know how big of a deal it was...David Lynch just kind of went public with it, where most directors don't. When they reached a deal, however, Showtime was pretty hands-off with letting David do whatever he wanted to (and he certainly did).
01-20-20, 08:48 AM
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“You’re brewin’ a poisonous batch. This thing is bigger than both of us.”
“A detective investigates a monkey who is suspected of murder” is the simple logline for David Lynch‘s new short film What Did Jack Do?, and we suspect that’s all you need to know.
Released totally by surprise this morning, the 17-minute short film stars Lynch as the detective, and a real monkey as, well, the monkey who’s suspected of murder. Of course, this being a David Lynch movie and all, the monkey talks in a highly disturbing human-like voice and the whole thing was filmed in black & white, giving the oddball gem the feel of a film noir.
And yes, of course the murder monkey breaks into song at one point. Of. Course.
Today, January 20th, is actually David Lynch’s birthday, and what better way to celebrate than by watching his latest gift to all of us? You’ll find it only over on Netflix, right now.
“A detective investigates a monkey who is suspected of murder” is the simple logline for David Lynch‘s new short film What Did Jack Do?, and we suspect that’s all you need to know.
Released totally by surprise this morning, the 17-minute short film stars Lynch as the detective, and a real monkey as, well, the monkey who’s suspected of murder. Of course, this being a David Lynch movie and all, the monkey talks in a highly disturbing human-like voice and the whole thing was filmed in black & white, giving the oddball gem the feel of a film noir.
And yes, of course the murder monkey breaks into song at one point. Of. Course.
Today, January 20th, is actually David Lynch’s birthday, and what better way to celebrate than by watching his latest gift to all of us? You’ll find it only over on Netflix, right now.