David Lynch Nailed and Skewered Us
On the passing of legendary director David Lynch, we share five films that nailed us in our hearts and guts and skewered us to our soft, squishy, emotional cores.
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David Lynch Nailed and Skewered Us
On the passing of legendary director David Lynch, we share five films that nailed us in our hearts and guts and skewered us to our soft, squishy, emotional cores.
There Are No Accidents on David Lynch’s ‘Mulholland Drive’
David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive unfolds in a series of desires and warnings often made under duress by unseen malevolent forces or motivated by darkness within.
The 20 Best DVDs of 2023
In our Best DVDs of 2023 list, along with some classic television, we have selected known treasures and unconventional films to satisfy the discerning cinephile.
The Unreality of Identity in David Lynch’s ‘Inland Empire’
Now that we’re awash in time loops and other realities, filmgoers are primed for three hours of David Lynch’s reality and identity-questioning film, Inland Empire.
Eraserhead’s Stylistic Tics Leave Traces of Infection
David Lynch’s impossibly mundane and unspeakably grotesque Eraserhead turns a looking glass upon an entire constellation of avant-garde signifiers.
‘The Elephant Man’ Lives Within Our Skin
David Lynch’s The Elephant Man is as much a life-affirming parable as it is an exercise in reorienting the boundaries of what we recognize as human.
What We Want vs. What We Need: How ‘Twin Peaks: The Return’ Resists Nostalgia
David Lynch and Mark Frost's seminal Twin Peaks is rich with insight as to how both people and works of fiction can age gracefully.
The 20 Top Movie Tearjerkers
Sad movies for sad times. Think you're impervious to crying during a movie? These 20 films are guaranteed to get you weeping.
8 Low-Budget Films That Delivered Big
Money isn't everything, although in filmmaking it counts for a lot. These eight films defied their minuscule budgets.
David Lynch’s ‘Lost Highway’ Loosens Our Grip on What and Whom We Think We Know
We move through life among strangers whom we try to make less strange, and we might even say we “know” a person. Lost Highway shows we no nothing.
David Lynch’s ’Blue Velvet’ Covers the Darkness
How can we appreciate David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, a film about America’s private darkness, in an era when such anxieties, tensions, and corruptions are so openly apparent?
‘Room to Dream’, in which David Lynch Has a Conversation with His Own Biography
Room to Dream brims with detail but the real David Lynch remains elusive.