November 21, 2023 • 24 mins
Are you ready to venture into the surreal world of David Lynch and unlock the mysteries of his dreamlike storytelling? Buckle up for a fascinating ride as we explore his groundbreaking first feature film, Eraserhead, shedding light on its unique essence. Get ready to be surprised as we unveil the comedy legend Mel Brooks' involvement in the critically acclaimed film, The Elephant Man. We also provide insight into why Lynch's 1984 adaptation of Dune didn't quite hit the mark., for the host at least. This episode promises to offer a deeper understanding of Lynch's cinematic style and its influence.
In the latter part of our analysis, we'll dissect more of Lynch's iconic films like "Wild at Heart," "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me," "Lost Highway," and "The Straight Story." Sharing our thoughts and interpretations, we delve into his disconcerting and perplexing narrative style. Additionally, we discuss Lynch's widespread impact on popular culture and the recent-ish revival of "Twin Peaks." This episode isn't just for Lynch fans, but for anyone intrigued by unconventional cinema and its power to provoke thought and evoke emotion. So, join us as we decode the peculiar world of David Lynch, promising an enriching and engaging discussion.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello and welcome to the first ever video version of
Movies, colin.
They're pretty good.
I'm your host, travis Dutting,and today we're going to talk
more about my favorite directors.
We got two more or one moreafter this, which you know.
Stay tuned for information onthat.
But today we're going to talkabout David Lynch.
(00:21):
One of my favorites Recentlydid the Blue Velvet episode.
I'm sorry I'm moving around somuch, I'm not really used to
being on camera.
Hopefully it's not more awkwardthan I am on the microphone.
So anyways, let's get rightinto it.
David Lynch first movie we haveEraserhead right here.
You can see I have thecriterion collection edition of
(00:45):
it.
I have everything that he hason criterion.
I have as well Eraserhead, areal interesting movie.
It's pretty much a student film.
He made it while he was at theAmerican Film Institute.
He had made some short filmsbefore that.
(01:05):
This is his first feature film.
Basically like shoestringbudget, like with anything he
had to, like get a couple grantsfrom the school and like other
schools and everything.
Lots of great information onthat, all of it which I learned
on the special features of thecriterion collection.
That's the great thing aboutphysical media is you get all
(01:27):
those extras and stuff like that, and then you don't have to
worry about your digital copygetting revoked because Voodoo
lost the license or whatevermight happen in the future, and
you don't have to wait forsomething to be on streaming.
So I understand why peopledon't do physical copies, but
(01:47):
I'm addicted to them.
I also just love looking at mycollection on my shelf and
everything like that.
But Eraserhead, a realinteresting one.
It's shot in black and white.
Came out in the 70s, 77.
Stars, jack Nance, who is astaple of David Lynch films and
(02:12):
also in the Twin Peaks series.
Just a real weird movie.
It's very dreamlike, like a lotof his stuff.
You know I'm probably going tosay that for like half of the
movies at least.
But very, very real, like heavymakeup and special effects and
(02:36):
stuff like that.
Very dark, not super narrativedriven, it's just very.
That's why I say it is verydreamlike, because it just feels
like you're just in this spaceobserving what's happening
rather than seeing the storyunfold.
And it's not saying that thereis no plot, because there is,
(02:57):
but it just is a little all overthe place, which is one of the
things I love about David Lynch,and I can't really put my
finger on why?
Because you know, usually whensomething just doesn't make
sense or it's not like outright,it could be a little
frustrating.
But there's something I don'tknow there.
He has some kind of magicaltouch that when he does it it
(03:21):
feels cool and when other peopledo it you're like okay, like
get a better writer.
I don't know, I don't reallyknow what it is about it.
I just I find him, his movieswould be very comforting in a
weird way, because they are sodark a lot of the times.
So yeah, that's Eraserhead.
If you haven't seen it, checkit out.
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All right, moving on, this isprobably this is the first one
where people really started totake them seriously.
This is the Elephant man.
It's got Anthony Hopkins andJohn Hurt plays a physically
(04:03):
disfigured man, suffers from alot of different things and
elephantitis being won.
That's the name, the Elephantman, but Anthony Hopkins is.
This surgeon finds him in afreak show at a circus in
England, and this one is basedon a true story.
Actually, so is like one otherone, but just super, very
(04:28):
touching movie, also filmed inBlack and White.
This one came out in 1980.
Just want to make sure I hadthat right and actually
executive, produced by MelBrooks from you know, the first
director episode that I did, andone of the stars of the film is
his wife.
(04:48):
I almost had a net many andit's not a net many and Bancroft
way off Samsonite, but yeah,real beautiful, sad and
beautiful at the same time.
(05:08):
Just gonna throw aroundthroughout the word bitter
sweets and leave it at that.
But real touching movie, realLike, again using like the heavy
makeup effects to make thisdisfigured man named John
Merrick I think the that's nothis real name but that's what
(05:32):
they put in the, in the bookAbout him and everything.
So that's what they went with.
And you know, of course it's alittle more dramaticized than
the real story.
You know, like with any basedon a true story usually.
But yeah, just rewatched it acouple days ago, was crying like
(05:54):
at the end, just bawling myeyes out.
Great, great, great movie, loveit.
All right.
Moving on, I do not have aphysical copy of this one
because it's probably the onlyone I don't really like all that
much, and that is the 1984Version of Dune.
Okay, so I had never seen thisone prior to the new dune coming
(06:19):
out and Watched the new dune,thought it was, you know, pretty
boring.
It's like what if Star Warswasn't fun?
And that was like, okay, maybeI'll like this David Lynch one,
and no, not really.
It Stars Kyle McLaughlin asPaula tradies.
(06:43):
I'm not gonna get too heavyinto the plot or whatever.
There's a lot of sand, lot ofweird stuff, like really like I
Don't know.
It's like he was, he was, hewas trying hard, he was trying
some stuff and it just didn'twork on me.
I know a lot of people love itand I don't know if they were
(07:05):
like big fans of the book andlove it because it's a good
adaptation.
Maybe it.
Maybe book fans hate it.
I'm not really sure.
All I know is like I wasn't tooupset when Dune part two got
delayed.
I'll still see it because it'sgonna get nominated for Oscars
and shit, like the other one.
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But you know and I'll give thatother one a second chance I did
watch this one a Second time.
I've fallen asleep both times.
I Did enjoy it more with thesecond viewing, but it's just
still.
It's just not for me, I think.
You know, maybe maybe thirdtime's a charm on Dune, all
(07:48):
right.
So moving on, won't get intothis one too much because I did
do a full episode on it.
But blue velvet 1986, anotherFabulous David Lynch film, maybe
one of his best ones.
He did get a, I think, bestdirector nomination for this one
.
But man, like I watched itagain like sense doing the
(08:13):
podcast episode and just stillcan't believe how amazing
everybody is in it, especiallyDennis Hopper, and you're not
like it's.
It's a very special type ofactor that can make a like
monster of a person, charismaticand I Don't know, it's just
(08:34):
something about him that he justpulls it off, kind of like
Daniel Plainview, and there willbe blood.
Daniel Day Lewis yeah, justincredible.
But yeah, I did do a wholeepisode on this, so I won't go
too heavily into it, but lovethis movie All right.
Moving on, next we have Wild atheart.
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This is one of the ones that isnot on the criterion collection.
Yeah, probably some kind ofrights issue with MGM.
I'm sure this is an interestingone.
This one wasn't streaminganywhere.
I literally just went to Amoebain Hollywood hoping that they
had a copy and they did so Ijust bought it for like 25 bucks
(09:19):
and I'm glad I did, becauseit's really really, really good.
It's a shout factory.
They put out a lot of likeobscure stuff, colt hits and
stuff like that.
This one is about a NicholasCage plays sailor and Laura Dern
plays Lula.
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He gets Put in prison forKilling a man in self-defense,
but because Laura Dern's mom isinto some like mob shit, she
like you know the guy wassupposed to kill him and
Nicholas Cage kicked his ass,killed him and Went to prison,
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got out and left with Laura Dern, the mom's still trying to get
him killed and everything.
And like at some point WillemDafoe's in there being unhinged
like he usually is and it is sogood at.
But yeah, this one's crazy.
It's also like really absurdCuz, at some point at a metal
(10:23):
Show he just like grabs the micand starts singing Elvis and the
whole band knows the song andeverything.
Yeah, super out there.
This is when David Lynch startsto get like extra weird in a
funny way.
I Mean I guess you could sayDune kind of started that too.
But yeah, real, real good movie, real intention.
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A lot of like serious hits too.
You know, not just it's not alllike fun in games, but yeah,
this one, if you haven't seen it, check it out.
Real good, all right Next.
So this one is a Prequel to thefirst to see.
Well, yes, to the whole seriesof Twin Peaks.
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Twin Peaks got canceled toosoon Because of Bob Iger making
David Lynch reveal who LauraPalmer's killer is, because
that's the whole plot of TwinPeaks is who killed Laura Palmer
?
And the mystery just slowlyUnravels and then it gets a
little supernatural and stufftoo real out there Crazy show.
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This is also one of those ones.
It's like a little weird butlike in a fun way If I recommend
not only the movie but theentire series, the original run
of two seasons and the returnthat happened on Showtime.
I also have the both of the boxsets.
I'll show those after I'm donetalking about this.
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But this movie is Crazy, likeit's.
It's very like dark, verySurreal and just like very.
It really makes youuncomfortable and like in a well
done way.
You know it's just Scary.
(12:15):
It like it works as a horrormovie and I'm sure it was
intended to be that.
But yeah, this is 1992's TwinPeaks.
Firewalk with me, just great,great, great stuff.
But yeah, like I said, here'sthe Collections I have.
I have the Twin Peaks entiremystery.
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This was released before thereturn aired on the TV.
But just check this out.
It's like super Cool, a lot ofgood stuff, and this also has
the firewalk with me in this aswell, but I'd still wanted to
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have the criterion collectionversion of it, of course, cuz
I'm like that.
And then this is the box set,for the Showtime version came
out in 2017.
Yeah, super good.
This one gets real crazy and I'menjoying.
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I started rewatching Twin Peaksfrom the beginning after
finishing it, even though ithadn't been that long since I
started it.
And I'm enjoying it even morebecause I'm finding like little
hints of stuff.
Like he's like paid off somerandom shots 30 years later in
the return that are like Was sounnecessary but so amazing how
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it worked out Alright.
So I Think, oh, yeah, so thisone's next.
This is a lost highway, as youcan see from my t-shirt, one of
my favorites of his.
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This one is just a real mindfuck, like real crazy and also
like super creepy.
Great mystery, great horror,just, and then just great
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absurdity too, because you knowit's David Lynch and just like
one of the craziest kills I'veseen in a movie.
Like a guy gets trips and fallsinto a Glass top table and just
splits his head in half likethrough there.
I'm not gonna tell you who itis in case you haven't seen it,
but oh man, this one is so Wildand crazy.
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It's a bill Pullman andPatricia Arquette.
Bill Pullman has the craziestsax solo since lost boys, I
think it's so like.
It's so out of Out of nowhere,it's like very little context
for it and it like barely soundsgood, which I think is like so
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funny about it.
But I'm also not like a hugelike huh.
No, I'm not gonna say that cuzI do like jazz, but yeah, like
just super weird eerie movie.
If you're someone who likes towatch things while they're high,
just one and the last one areyour picks.
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Oh, it may be a moholland rideas well, but yeah, lost highway,
super good, all right, movingon.
Next we have the straight story.
That one I do not own aphysical copy of yet, but I did.
You can't stream it on.
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Disney plus is a Disney film.
It wasn't written by DavidLynch but there's definitely
like his tone in there.
It's directing comes through init, even though it wasn't his
story.
But it that's the other onethat's based on a true story.
It's about this guy, alvinstraight, who's and you know,
elderly man in his 80s, findsout that his brother had a heart
(16:19):
attack, so he wants to go aheart attack or stroke, I forget
but he wants to go visit him.
He can't drive so he takes hisride on long mower with a
trailer attached to the back anddrives like a Few hundred miles
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.
That's crazy.
This one's a real heartwarmingone.
Hopefully that spit didn't showup on camera.
But real beautiful story, realtouching.
It's just him interacting withthese locals that he meets on
the way and everything andtelling telling stories and
helping them with their livesand everything.
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And Very introspective, verybeautiful, very touching movie.
It's definitely got that likeDisney charm to it.
But yeah, beautiful movie andthat's that's probably the least
known of the David Lynch films.
But yeah, great one.
That's called the straightstory.
I think I told that said that.
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But all right, moving on.
Next we got Mo Hall and drive.
This is probably his best one.
This one is.
It was.
I had heard a lot about this onefor a long time and that's
really the movie that got meinto David Lynch Way later than
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I should have.
But once I once I saw it.
Once I saw that like Openingact and everything, the scene at
the Winky's diner and behindthe diner.
Insane, a little like Peoplehype it up a little extra, I
think, but it's still very good.
I Don't know, I think I justdifferent things scare me, but
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it's definitely.
I think the tone scares me morethan the, the Big moment that
people always talk about.
But oh man, this is, this isanother like Mindfuck movie.
It's so good, it's sointeresting.
You think it's going one wayand it feels so dreamy.
(18:28):
Because you know I don't wantto spoil anything but and I will
cover this one sometime soon,whenever it's like a More easy a
stream, I think are moreaccessible for people, probably
sometime in the new year,probably pretty early on.
But great, great, great movie.
I love it.
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It's Naomi Watts is amazing init.
Laura herring Laura herring, Idon't know, I haven't heard it
set out loud, but A bunch ofdifferent people, just some
throws in it.
Yeah, 2001, mulholland Drive.
Great, great movie.
I can't recommend this oneenough.
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But yeah, I'm not gonna go tooheavy into that one because I
will cover it fully down theline.
All right.
So Last but not least, inlandempire.
This is the weirdest one of allof them.
It is three hours long, shot on, like early 2000s digital
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cameras.
It looks insane, it looks fake,almost I Forget it took them
like years to make it.
I know that, but I forget likeexactly how long, like how many
months or whatever, but it isjust so crazy.
It's Laura Dern is in it andshe plays as an actress and
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they're making this movie thatIs a remake of something from
Poland but that was neverreleased because the cast got
murdered or something.
But it's man, it is just soeerie, so uncomfortable and like
so little.
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Like Happens that makes senseand you're just along for the
ride and it's holding yourattention the whole time and
like there's stuff that it'slike not really going anywhere
and You're like, well, that wasa waste of time and this one
like could easily be that.
But, like I said, it'ssomething about that David Lynch
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charm, it just like it worksand it's like three hours of and
I still really couldn't tellyou what actually happens in
this and it's so crazy and it'sso good, so weird to Real eerie.
This is probably the other.
Like this lost highway and TwinPeaks fire walk with me are the
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ones I would say are likehorror movies.
Some people say eraser head andit is like a body horror in a
way, but it's just more tonal Ithink then Like anything
actually scary happening.
But yeah, that's David Lynch.
I wish he was, you know, hadsomething cooking and who knows,
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maybe he does.
I also have, but just not herewith me, a Criterion of the
David Lynch the art life, whichis a documentary about him that
was made just a few years ago.
That's really good.
I think I talked a little bitabout that in the blue velvet
episode and then on criterionchannel right now is a
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documentary called Lynch Ozwhich talks about all his
tie-ins to the Wizard of Oz andjust how like he saw it as a kid
and just Influenced him soheavily, very on the nose, and
while that heart like there isjust straight up, you know, the
witches, crystal ball and the,the Glenda, the good witches
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just in there, you know, and alot of, also a lot of references
to Wizard of Oz, red Heelsclicking together, all that
stuff.
But yeah, that that was a superinteresting documentary.
I really enjoyed that, reallywell done.
I forget the director on that,but yeah, if you have a
subscription to criterionchannel, which I highly
(22:35):
recommend, especially if you'reinto like weird shit like this,
I, yeah, highly recommend thatapp and Streaming service and I
highly recommend thatdocumentary, and that's also
where you'll find a lot.
If you haven't seen a lot ofhis movies and you're interested
, if I did a good job which Iprobably didn't of getting you
interested in them, that's wherethey're streaming a lot of the
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time.
That's where I watched Before Iowned them.
That's where I watch most ofthese films, ah, but yeah, so
that's David Lynch.
That is the first video episodeof the podcast.
I hope I was looking into thelens.
I probably wasn't for somereason.
(23:19):
But yeah, I hope this was okay.
I hope it wasn't bad enough tomake me never want to do this
again, but it probably wasn't.
But, yeah, stick around, Ishould.
I'm trying to get it scheduled,but should have a friend of
mine as a special guest on thenext episode and if not, then
(23:40):
then soon.
But stay tuned for that.
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These are free because I'm not,like, famous enough to do a
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I'm not gonna make people payto watch Me because that'd be
the biggest waste of money.
But, yeah, hope you guys areenjoying it.
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Hello and welcome to the first ever video version of
Movies, colin.
They're pretty good.
I'm your host, travis Dutting,and today we're going to talk
more about my favorite directors.
We got two more or one moreafter this, which you know.
Stay tuned for information onthat.
But today we're going to talkabout David Lynch.
(00:21):
One of my favorites Recentlydid the Blue Velvet episode.
I'm sorry I'm moving around somuch, I'm not really used to
being on camera.
Hopefully it's not more awkwardthan I am on the microphone.
So anyways, let's get rightinto it.
David Lynch first movie we haveEraserhead right here.
You can see I have thecriterion collection edition of
(00:45):
it.
I have everything that he hason criterion.
I have as well Eraserhead, areal interesting movie.
It's pretty much a student film.
He made it while he was at theAmerican Film Institute.
He had made some short filmsbefore that.
(01:05):
This is his first feature film.
Basically like shoestringbudget, like with anything he
had to, like get a couple grantsfrom the school and like other
schools and everything.
Lots of great information onthat, all of it which I learned
on the special features of thecriterion collection.
That's the great thing aboutphysical media is you get all
(01:27):
those extras and stuff like that, and then you don't have to
worry about your digital copygetting revoked because Voodoo
lost the license or whatevermight happen in the future, and
you don't have to wait forsomething to be on streaming.
So I understand why peopledon't do physical copies, but
(01:47):
I'm addicted to them.
I also just love looking at mycollection on my shelf and
everything like that.
But Eraserhead, a realinteresting one.
It's shot in black and white.
Came out in the 70s, 77.
Stars, jack Nance, who is astaple of David Lynch films and
(02:12):
also in the Twin Peaks series.
Just a real weird movie.
It's very dreamlike, like a lotof his stuff.
You know I'm probably going tosay that for like half of the
movies at least.
But very, very real, like heavymakeup and special effects and
(02:36):
stuff like that.
Very dark, not super narrativedriven, it's just very.
That's why I say it is verydreamlike, because it just feels
like you're just in this spaceobserving what's happening
rather than seeing the storyunfold.
And it's not saying that thereis no plot, because there is,
(02:57):
but it just is a little all overthe place, which is one of the
things I love about David Lynch,and I can't really put my
finger on why?
Because you know, usually whensomething just doesn't make
sense or it's not like outright,it could be a little
frustrating.
But there's something I don'tknow there.
He has some kind of magicaltouch that when he does it it
(03:21):
feels cool and when other peopledo it you're like okay, like
get a better writer.
I don't know, I don't reallyknow what it is about it.
I just I find him, his movieswould be very comforting in a
weird way, because they are sodark a lot of the times.
So yeah, that's Eraserhead.
If you haven't seen it, checkit out.
(03:43):
All right, moving on, this isprobably this is the first one
where people really started totake them seriously.
This is the Elephant man.
It's got Anthony Hopkins andJohn Hurt plays a physically
(04:03):
disfigured man, suffers from alot of different things and
elephantitis being won.
That's the name, the Elephantman, but Anthony Hopkins is.
This surgeon finds him in afreak show at a circus in
England, and this one is basedon a true story.
Actually, so is like one otherone, but just super, very
(04:28):
touching movie, also filmed inBlack and White.
This one came out in 1980.
Just want to make sure I hadthat right and actually
executive, produced by MelBrooks from you know, the first
director episode that I did, andone of the stars of the film is
his wife.
(04:48):
I almost had a net many andit's not a net many and Bancroft
way off Samsonite, but yeah,real beautiful, sad and
beautiful at the same time.
(05:08):
Just gonna throw aroundthroughout the word bitter
sweets and leave it at that.
But real touching movie, realLike, again using like the heavy
makeup effects to make thisdisfigured man named John
Merrick I think the that's nothis real name but that's what
(05:32):
they put in the, in the bookAbout him and everything.
So that's what they went with.
And you know, of course it's alittle more dramaticized than
the real story.
You know, like with any basedon a true story usually.
But yeah, just rewatched it acouple days ago, was crying like
(05:54):
at the end, just bawling myeyes out.
Great, great, great movie, loveit.
All right.
Moving on, I do not have aphysical copy of this one
because it's probably the onlyone I don't really like all that
much, and that is the 1984Version of Dune.
Okay, so I had never seen thisone prior to the new dune coming
(06:19):
out and Watched the new dune,thought it was, you know, pretty
boring.
It's like what if Star Warswasn't fun?
And that was like, okay, maybeI'll like this David Lynch one,
and no, not really.
It Stars Kyle McLaughlin asPaula tradies.
(06:43):
I'm not gonna get too heavyinto the plot or whatever.
There's a lot of sand, lot ofweird stuff, like really like I
Don't know.
It's like he was, he was, hewas trying hard, he was trying
some stuff and it just didn'twork on me.
I know a lot of people love itand I don't know if they were
(07:05):
like big fans of the book andlove it because it's a good
adaptation.
Maybe it.
Maybe book fans hate it.
I'm not really sure.
All I know is like I wasn't tooupset when Dune part two got
delayed.
I'll still see it because it'sgonna get nominated for Oscars
and shit, like the other one.
(07:26):
But you know and I'll give thatother one a second chance I did
watch this one a Second time.
I've fallen asleep both times.
I Did enjoy it more with thesecond viewing, but it's just
still.
It's just not for me, I think.
You know, maybe maybe thirdtime's a charm on Dune, all
(07:48):
right.
So moving on, won't get intothis one too much because I did
do a full episode on it.
But blue velvet 1986, anotherFabulous David Lynch film, maybe
one of his best ones.
He did get a, I think, bestdirector nomination for this one
.
But man, like I watched itagain like sense doing the
(08:13):
podcast episode and just stillcan't believe how amazing
everybody is in it, especiallyDennis Hopper, and you're not
like it's.
It's a very special type ofactor that can make a like
monster of a person, charismaticand I Don't know, it's just
(08:34):
something about him that he justpulls it off, kind of like
Daniel Plainview, and there willbe blood.
Daniel Day Lewis yeah, justincredible.
But yeah, I did do a wholeepisode on this, so I won't go
too heavily into it, but lovethis movie All right.
Moving on, next we have Wild atheart.
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This is one of the ones that isnot on the criterion collection.
Yeah, probably some kind ofrights issue with MGM.
I'm sure this is an interestingone.
This one wasn't streaminganywhere.
I literally just went to Amoebain Hollywood hoping that they
had a copy and they did so Ijust bought it for like 25 bucks
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and I'm glad I did, becauseit's really really, really good.
It's a shout factory.
They put out a lot of likeobscure stuff, colt hits and
stuff like that.
This one is about a NicholasCage plays sailor and Laura Dern
plays Lula.
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He gets Put in prison forKilling a man in self-defense,
but because Laura Dern's mom isinto some like mob shit, she
like you know the guy wassupposed to kill him and
Nicholas Cage kicked his ass,killed him and Went to prison,
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got out and left with Laura Dern, the mom's still trying to get
him killed and everything.
And like at some point WillemDafoe's in there being unhinged
like he usually is and it is sogood at.
But yeah, this one's crazy.
It's also like really absurdCuz, at some point at a metal
(10:23):
Show he just like grabs the micand starts singing Elvis and the
whole band knows the song andeverything.
Yeah, super out there.
This is when David Lynch startsto get like extra weird in a
funny way.
I Mean I guess you could sayDune kind of started that too.
But yeah, real, real good movie, real intention.
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A lot of like serious hits too.
You know, not just it's not alllike fun in games, but yeah,
this one, if you haven't seen it, check it out.
Real good, all right Next.
So this one is a Prequel to thefirst to see.
Well, yes, to the whole seriesof Twin Peaks.
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Twin Peaks got canceled toosoon Because of Bob Iger making
David Lynch reveal who LauraPalmer's killer is, because
that's the whole plot of TwinPeaks is who killed Laura Palmer
?
And the mystery just slowlyUnravels and then it gets a
little supernatural and stufftoo real out there Crazy show.
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This is also one of those ones.
It's like a little weird butlike in a fun way If I recommend
not only the movie but theentire series, the original run
of two seasons and the returnthat happened on Showtime.
I also have the both of the boxsets.
I'll show those after I'm donetalking about this.
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But this movie is Crazy, likeit's.
It's very like dark, verySurreal and just like very.
It really makes youuncomfortable and like in a well
done way.
You know it's just Scary.
(12:15):
It like it works as a horrormovie and I'm sure it was
intended to be that.
But yeah, this is 1992's TwinPeaks.
Firewalk with me, just great,great, great stuff.
But yeah, like I said, here'sthe Collections I have.
I have the Twin Peaks entiremystery.
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This was released before thereturn aired on the TV.
But just check this out.
It's like super Cool, a lot ofgood stuff, and this also has
the firewalk with me in this aswell, but I'd still wanted to
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have the criterion collectionversion of it, of course, cuz
I'm like that.
And then this is the box set,for the Showtime version came
out in 2017.
Yeah, super good.
This one gets real crazy and I'menjoying.
(13:18):
I started rewatching Twin Peaksfrom the beginning after
finishing it, even though ithadn't been that long since I
started it.
And I'm enjoying it even morebecause I'm finding like little
hints of stuff.
Like he's like paid off somerandom shots 30 years later in
the return that are like Was sounnecessary but so amazing how
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it worked out Alright.
So I Think, oh, yeah, so thisone's next.
This is a lost highway, as youcan see from my t-shirt, one of
my favorites of his.
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This one is just a real mindfuck, like real crazy and also
like super creepy.
Great mystery, great horror,just, and then just great
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absurdity too, because you knowit's David Lynch and just like
one of the craziest kills I'veseen in a movie.
Like a guy gets trips and fallsinto a Glass top table and just
splits his head in half likethrough there.
I'm not gonna tell you who itis in case you haven't seen it,
but oh man, this one is so Wildand crazy.
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It's a bill Pullman andPatricia Arquette.
Bill Pullman has the craziestsax solo since lost boys, I
think it's so like.
It's so out of Out of nowhere,it's like very little context
for it and it like barely soundsgood, which I think is like so
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funny about it.
But I'm also not like a hugelike huh.
No, I'm not gonna say that cuzI do like jazz, but yeah, like
just super weird eerie movie.
If you're someone who likes towatch things while they're high,
just one and the last one areyour picks.
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Oh, it may be a moholland rideas well, but yeah, lost highway,
super good, all right, movingon.
Next we have the straight story.
That one I do not own aphysical copy of yet, but I did.
You can't stream it on.
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Disney plus is a Disney film.
It wasn't written by DavidLynch but there's definitely
like his tone in there.
It's directing comes through init, even though it wasn't his
story.
But it that's the other onethat's based on a true story.
It's about this guy, alvinstraight, who's and you know,
elderly man in his 80s, findsout that his brother had a heart
(16:19):
attack, so he wants to go aheart attack or stroke, I forget
but he wants to go visit him.
He can't drive so he takes hisride on long mower with a
trailer attached to the back anddrives like a Few hundred miles
(16:40):
.
That's crazy.
This one's a real heartwarmingone.
Hopefully that spit didn't showup on camera.
But real beautiful story, realtouching.
It's just him interacting withthese locals that he meets on
the way and everything andtelling telling stories and
helping them with their livesand everything.
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And Very introspective, verybeautiful, very touching movie.
It's definitely got that likeDisney charm to it.
But yeah, beautiful movie andthat's that's probably the least
known of the David Lynch films.
But yeah, great one.
That's called the straightstory.
I think I told that said that.
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But all right, moving on.
Next we got Mo Hall and drive.
This is probably his best one.
This one is.
It was.
I had heard a lot about this onefor a long time and that's
really the movie that got meinto David Lynch Way later than
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I should have.
But once I once I saw it.
Once I saw that like Openingact and everything, the scene at
the Winky's diner and behindthe diner.
Insane, a little like Peoplehype it up a little extra, I
think, but it's still very good.
I Don't know, I think I justdifferent things scare me, but
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it's definitely.
I think the tone scares me morethan the, the Big moment that
people always talk about.
But oh man, this is, this isanother like Mindfuck movie.
It's so good, it's sointeresting.
You think it's going one wayand it feels so dreamy.
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Because you know I don't wantto spoil anything but and I will
cover this one sometime soon,whenever it's like a More easy a
stream, I think are moreaccessible for people, probably
sometime in the new year,probably pretty early on.
But great, great, great movie.
I love it.
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It's Naomi Watts is amazing init.
Laura herring Laura herring, Idon't know, I haven't heard it
set out loud, but A bunch ofdifferent people, just some
throws in it.
Yeah, 2001, mulholland Drive.
Great, great movie.
I can't recommend this oneenough.
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But yeah, I'm not gonna go tooheavy into that one because I
will cover it fully down theline.
All right.
So Last but not least, inlandempire.
This is the weirdest one of allof them.
It is three hours long, shot on, like early 2000s digital
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cameras.
It looks insane, it looks fake,almost I Forget it took them
like years to make it.
I know that, but I forget likeexactly how long, like how many
months or whatever, but it isjust so crazy.
It's Laura Dern is in it andshe plays as an actress and
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they're making this movie thatIs a remake of something from
Poland but that was neverreleased because the cast got
murdered or something.
But it's man, it is just soeerie, so uncomfortable and like
so little.
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Like Happens that makes senseand you're just along for the
ride and it's holding yourattention the whole time and
like there's stuff that it'slike not really going anywhere
and You're like, well, that wasa waste of time and this one
like could easily be that.
But, like I said, it'ssomething about that David Lynch
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charm, it just like it worksand it's like three hours of and
I still really couldn't tellyou what actually happens in
this and it's so crazy and it'sso good, so weird to Real eerie.
This is probably the other.
Like this lost highway and TwinPeaks fire walk with me are the
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ones I would say are likehorror movies.
Some people say eraser head andit is like a body horror in a
way, but it's just more tonal Ithink then Like anything
actually scary happening.
But yeah, that's David Lynch.
I wish he was, you know, hadsomething cooking and who knows,
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maybe he does.
I also have, but just not herewith me, a Criterion of the
David Lynch the art life, whichis a documentary about him that
was made just a few years ago.
That's really good.
I think I talked a little bitabout that in the blue velvet
episode and then on criterionchannel right now is a
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documentary called Lynch Ozwhich talks about all his
tie-ins to the Wizard of Oz andjust how like he saw it as a kid
and just Influenced him soheavily, very on the nose, and
while that heart like there isjust straight up, you know, the
witches, crystal ball and the,the Glenda, the good witches
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just in there, you know, and alot of, also a lot of references
to Wizard of Oz, red Heelsclicking together, all that
stuff.
But yeah, that that was a superinteresting documentary.
I really enjoyed that, reallywell done.
I forget the director on that,but yeah, if you have a
subscription to criterionchannel, which I highly
(22:35):
recommend, especially if you'reinto like weird shit like this,
I, yeah, highly recommend thatapp and Streaming service and I
highly recommend thatdocumentary, and that's also
where you'll find a lot.
If you haven't seen a lot ofhis movies and you're interested
, if I did a good job which Iprobably didn't of getting you
interested in them, that's wherethey're streaming a lot of the
(22:58):
time.
That's where I watched Before Iowned them.
That's where I watch most ofthese films, ah, but yeah, so
that's David Lynch.
That is the first video episodeof the podcast.
I hope I was looking into thelens.
I probably wasn't for somereason.
(23:19):
But yeah, I hope this was okay.
I hope it wasn't bad enough tomake me never want to do this
again, but it probably wasn't.
But, yeah, stick around, Ishould.
I'm trying to get it scheduled,but should have a friend of
mine as a special guest on thenext episode and if not, then
(23:40):
then soon.
But stay tuned for that.
If you're listening to this andwant information on the YouTube
channel or on all that, go tothe Instagram, and if you don't
use Instagram, then Stay tunedfor next episode and I'll put
some I'll like actually say onthe air.
(24:02):
On the air, this isn't radio onthe podcast, where you can find
the YouTube videos version.
These are free because I'm not,like, famous enough to do a
patreon or anything.
I'm not gonna make people payto watch Me because that'd be
the biggest waste of money.
But, yeah, hope you guys areenjoying it.
(24:25):
Thank you for listening, thankyou for watching and hope you
stay tuned in the future.
Oh yeah, and the Instagram, incase you don't know, is at
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