David Lynch RIP

[Dr Jacoby]

Dead at 78. :(

One of my favourite directors.

RIP Gordon Cole.

 

[urban genie]

Iconic director has passed on.

The Elephant Man
Blue Velvet
Wild at Heart

and of course Twin Peaks

some classic film and tv moments

 

[kaz7]

Sad one , he is a genius

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Sad news. RIP Fella.

Also, probably could do with merging with this thread (https://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/david-lynch-rip.367133/)

 

[urban genie]

Dennis hoppers turn in Blue Velvet was both mesmerising and disturbing

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Sorry, I think we posted at virtually the same time.

Twin Peaks, Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Wild at Heart, Lost Highway…some magnificent works.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Genuinely devastated.

My favourite filmmaker by a mile. And a visionary artist. His entire life was in many ways a single continuous conceptual art piece.

I remember going to see mulholland drive in the cinema as a teenager. It changed my life in the same way hearing one of my favourite records changed my life. That film was a gateway to understand that there was more to ‘art’ than being taught how to draw in school.

Fucking hell.

 

[urban genie]

Sorry, I think we posted at virtually the same time.

Twin Peaks, Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Wild at Heart, Lost Highway…some magnificent works.

Aye we did, the man was a great story teller

 

[mackenzie]

Twin Peaks was absolutely fantastic.

 

[threespires]

Up there with the very best. A significant cultural figure and a real loss to the arts. RIP.

 

[bluethrunthru]

The man created art not just films - RIP David Lynch

David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Muholland Drive director, dies aged 78

Film-maker who specialised in surreal, noir style mysteries made a string of influential, critically acclaimed works including Wild at Heart and Eraserhead

www.theguardian.com

 

[Gray]

My son is a big fan, he will be gutted.

 

[Pollock's Deft Backheader]

Straight story is one of the best films I've ever seen. My favourite of all the Lynch's.

 

[bluetonium]

Some fantastic shows and movies, sad news but I'll use it as a way to reacquaint myself with some of them.

 

[City Hobgoblin]

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Straight story is one of the best films I've ever seen. My favourite of all the Lynch's.

It’s such a beautiful little film that is so often overlooked.

Lynch spoke about small town rural america in so much of his work and that film was a really poignant tribute to it.

I haven’t watched it in years but I have it on dvd somewhere. Might have to dig it out.

 

[ScottSinclair]

For me personally, one of those once in a while moments where a celebrity death is genuinly upsetting. Great director and creative mind. But also a great character.

Mulholland Drive one of those films that everyone takes something out of watching it

 

[youngbob]

I thought I'd be sadder but... what a life! He was proud of smoking his entire life and made it 78 despite that, and all after changing the world of entertainment. Can't say fairer than that for your time on Earth. Lived exactly as he wanted and fair play to him - the world has genuinely lost something with his passing. Rest easy!

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

The only filmmaker in my lifetime about whom I would use the word “genius”, calmly and as a considered term. Nobody else even vaguely like him. He pushed back the boundaries of what a film might be, what a film might do to you.
I've seen hundreds of films (in the cinema, not just at home) in my lifetime. I'm a big Scorsese fan. A big Spielberg fan. But there was only one Lynch, and his vision comes once in a generation. We didn't just watch his films — his films watched us watching them.
As for Mulholland. There are films: good, bad, very bad, sometimes brilliant.

Then there is Mulholland.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Oh, and special mention: Mystery Man in Lost Highway. The party scene.
Who else the fuck on earth could do that…?? Possibly the creepiest scene I know of in all of film. So much with so little.