David Lynch
Noah’s Barks pages relating to film director David Lynch.
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Inland Empire
Inland Empire (IE) beats out Eraserhead for the scarier surrealist movie, mostly because it has much less of David Lynch‘s diffident, “unintentional” humor. Frustratingly enough, that humor still shows up in IE from time to time, but despite its incomprehensibility, IE is somewhat entertaining in how manic and disturbing it is, where Lynch’s earlier cryptographs… (read more)
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Wild at Heart
While this David Lynch film is a complete mess, if you’re able to embrace its blatant stupidity you’ll find Wild at Heart to be a fun, innocent, and unique comedy. Some of the absurdity and use of violence as comedy makes me think of this as some kind of proto-Tarantino. Even still, many attempts at… (read more)
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Dune
This is a terrible movie. The combined force of hardcore David Lynch and Dune fans ensure it gets more respect than it deserves. I’ve heard people say that Dune‘s costume and set design is worth praise, but it’s really not. Detailed and expensive yes, but thrown together horribly. Clashing colors fill frames in a chaotic… (read more)
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Mulholland Drive
Mulholland Drive works because David Lynch finally bends his surrealism around a storyline instead of shoving the storyline into the surrealism. Because Mulholland Drive is fairly straightforward, it provides the audience a tangible mystery and characters to motivate the deciphering of its plot. Amidst the chilling confusion are several memorable scenes that keep attention throughout… (read more)
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Blue Velvet
Blue Velvet is the purest distillation of David Lynch‘s talent as a director/writer. Everything he’s made, while often great, has his ideas clash. In Blue Velvet his oddities perfectly complement each other: the uncanny valley’s wandering dream world mirroring the idyllic American town people want to believe in that doesn’t exist, and the dark reality… (read more)
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Eraserhead
David Lynch’s Eraserhead is accomplished in the sense that it really feels like a nightmare come to the screen, complete with a randomly shifting narrative and odd symbolism that’ll turn any viewer into a dream interpreter, but the horror is weakened significantly by the fact that the dialogue is overly camp and many scenes are… (read more)
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Lost Highway
Lost Highway is the worst kind of surrealist film in that it challenges the audience to find meaning in it without a hint that any actually exists. Another David Lynch movie, Mulholland Drive, supplies actual characters and a mystery to motivate the deciphering, but Lost Highway is all too content to just be deliriously confusing.… (read more)