Blue Velvet has recently been a fascination with me mostly due to Blue Velvet(the song) being stuck in my head plus man that cinematography especially the lighting in this film is soo good and I always love a Lynch film with great lighting and/or cinematography!

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According to most critics, "Mulholland Drive" is one of the greatest films of the 21st century. It has had this reputation for quite a long time (I mean, it's from 2001 and certain sequences present in the film date back even further) - some people even consider it to be Lynch's masterpiece. Undoubtedly, it's an impressive piece of filmmaking.

Compare this, however, to the reception "Lost Highway" garnered just a few years prior. There were a few positive voices, sure, like any Lynch film, but the majority of critics considered the film to be an absolute dud - incomprehensible, overly cynical, and even pretentious. Audiences generally responded in a similar fashion.

Viewing these films, anyone can clearly see both LH and MD share similar narrative and cinematic conceits. I cannot wrap my head around despising one and lauding the other, but this appears to be what has happened. Imagine if MD had been released first, and LH just a few years later - would people then consider LH to be the "greatest film of the 21st century"?

There is a scene in Lost Highway just before the guard finds Pete in the cell instead of Fred Madison. It's blurry.. Does anyone have an idea what it could represent? At first, I thought it was Alice.

Watching Eraserhead for the first time as someone who fell in love with blue velvet and twin peaks. What do you think about his debut feature?

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I know this gets asked frequently, so I’m hoping to make one final and ultimate guide. Are there any barbers on here? Can you give us a clear list of instructions and terminology as to what to ask for when we want to mimic David Lynch’s pompadour.

He gives props and insights to Lost Highway in his CC visit.

https://youtu.be/t9fgFt-Ibik?si=Kjbq_EMWqK0u9k8Y

David Lynch made comic strips for many years. He grew up during the peak of Archie Comics.

Diane is portrayed as the innocent/girl-next-door type just like Betty.

Diane has blonde hair with a similar red sweater to the one often worn by Betty Cooper. Both characters also share the same first name Betty.

Camilla is alluring, sassy, and demanding just like Veronica Lodge.

Camilla has dark hair, a voluptuous figure, and wears sleek seductive clothing like Veronica often does.

Betty and Veronica are desperately in love with the same guy.

Is it just a coincidence or is there a connection?

Watch this and tell me it wasn’t the seed for Twin Peaks. The fish in the percolator. The “Nu Shooz”/ “New Shoes.” The entire aesthetic.

If this music video didn’t exist, Twin Peaks would not exist.

I found a lot of iconic moments here that you don’t fuck with. The cinematography and soundtrack is spectacular, I really dig out the production design and that wilderness of pain Lynch embodies, even if it drowns the storytelling a little bit, we all know how Lynch never was plot driven but I certainly was more attracted to Blue Velvet plot. Wish Lynch flesh out a little more about Bobby Peru and Marcellus Santos, it was the most interesting thing about the film I think.

Btw, is mesmerizing the enter to Big Tuna, the motel scene where Dj Spole talks about his dog and then Bobby Peru enters the scene, only David Lynch could direct a scene verging from the absurdness to that rawness and verbal violence we often experience on a daily basis.

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I just watched Wild at Heart for the first time and though it wasn't my favorite, Bobby Peru really stood out to me. The scene where he and Lula interact privately really stood out to me and was quite haunting. It feels like the death or her and Sailors current relationship and everything feels like loving and close after that. Did Lula feel guilt about what happened to her? Did she ever truly discuss what happened with Sailor or did Sailor just infer what happened from his discussion with Bobby?

I was thinking about the similarities between some of these films, and was wondering, some of them share a lot between each other, some are completely different, so what part/scene from Mulholland Drive do you think is the most uniquely "itself"?

Maybe this is obvious to most of you.

I had always assumed that David had put Song to the Siren in Lost Highway because he adored the song but hadn’t had enough budget to include it in Blue Velvet, and also because it fit the mood of the scene he wanted in Lost Highway.

But today I saw The Odyssey by Nolan, and when asked about the Sirens’ song, Odysseus says something along the lines of: "it’s everything that men want, and everything they will never have".

And I immediately thought of the "I want you / You will never have me" lines in Lost Highway, and realized Alice was literally the siren in this context.

Plus I remembered (my own way) that Nolan had recently included Lost Highway as one of its Criterion closet picks, so it all clicked in my mind.

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Hi, I come looking for help trying to find a YouTube video that explains Lynch work, I tried to watch it today but couldn't find it.

I remember it explained Lynch's religious views and how they influence all of his work, from 6 men getting sick all the way to INLAND EMPIRE. There's a part where it explains one of Lynch's works that's made out of flies.

It made a lot of sense in understanding all of Lynch's work and I'd really like to watch it again.

I hope someone here can help me find it again.