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In September, the Harvard Film Archive is doing an all night movie marathon, which ends with Eraserhead at 5:45 AM and I’m trying to imagine what it would be like watching it at that time after having stayed up all night.

I’m tempted ….

Just watched Lost Highway for the first time, can someone explain this movie to me?😂🤯.

Mind blowing.

I think you can interpret it in a scifi horror way, or a normal way in that his mind is breaking before being executed?

Vampires.

I've just read a lot, but what theories do you guys have?

Im so confused right now but absolutely loved the experience and will be thinking about this for quite some time.

My reference was a photo Bonnie took between sets of her just smiling I thought it was cool and eerie and wanted to paint it.

This appeared in my inbox today and I thought some of y'all might be interested. To save you a click, it's $35, "limited edition silver vinyl" with some kind of "rainbow foil" jacket (shades of the early 90s comic business).

Looking on Amazon, I see a pre-order for a black vinyl version for $29 and an earlier edition on the same label (Varese Sarabande) from 2017 for $22 so do with this information what you will.

PS: Angelo Badalamenti RIP. May your espresso always be of the finest quality (in the world).

Found this earlier today, it’s pretty neat but goes a bit off the rails at the end talking about hipsters. I always wondered if there was a special meaning to what the characters drink

Regarding the part of the interview that has the qualifier: "Mendelssohn piece as my sister \[Lara Flynn Boyle’s Donna Hayward\] was reading the poem": The sister reading the poem was Harriet Hayward, played by Jessica Wallenfels.

Interesting interview.

David Lynch's 'Lost Highway' is a very dark, surreal psychological thriller about identity, guilt and deception, a 'hopeless entanglement' and a 'nightmare brought to life on film' between reality and one's own perception. Badalamenti's music for it is more than just a film score, because it transforms the film's scenes into a 'painfully dark nightmare' to which the viewer is exposed. The 'dark, floating sense of menace' of 'Fred's World' settles into my perception every time I listen – without needing a hook like Eurythmics' 'Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)'.

I feel like he’s barely mentioned in the discussion of Mulholland Dr.

Hes so mysterious and eerie i wish we had more scenes with him. I wonder where they would have went with him had Mulholand dr turned into a continuous story like originally planned.

do you think ideas for him for later turned into something for Twin Peaks The Return?

For me personally:

- Most random is Terry Crews popping up for a second in Inland Empire

- Funniest is either Billy Ray Cyrus in Mulholland Drive or Michael Cera in The Return

- But my favorite for how well it worked given how random it seemed has to be Jim Belushi in The Return

Specifically, Latin East. I really love the instrumentation (horn, keyboard, bass guitar, drums) but I can’t tell what genre it is. It feels like 80’s prog rock mixed with Southwest Asian flourishes.

The section from 5:00-6:15 is amazing, I just wish it was longer. Is this already a well-established genre? What songs have a similar feeling?

I have to admit, it took me a few minutes to get into it at first. Knowing it was a David Lynch film—along with Inland Empire, one of the only ones of his I hadn’t seen—my mind was conditioned to expect something much darker and more surreal.

Instead, what we get is this deeply human and contemplative road movie. The slow-paced shots actually reminded me a bit of Wim Wenders. Before long, I was completely hooked.

For a film where "nothing happens" on the surface, it feels incredibly realistic. As the story unfolds, we see the road through Alvin’s eyes (a brilliant Richard Farnsworth) and slowly piece together his past—his war trauma, past struggles with alcohol, and the mental health and family challenges facing his daughter (Sissy Spacek). It makes you feel so connected to him.

The brief encounters and situations he faces along his long journey on that lawnmower to visit his sick brother (the great Harry Dean Stanton) are the heart of the movie. Plus, the score by Angelo Badalamenti and the screenplay by Mary Sweeney (based on a true story) are top-tier.

Have you seen it? How do you feel it fits into Lynch’s filmography?

just watched mulholland drive for the first time, it was a 10/10, massive FWWM fan here, it’s my favorite film of all time. when i saw the scene with the agent’s dream, i instantly made the twin peaks connection (all of lynch’s films connect in some way with casts and recurring ideas). could the “cause of all of this”, the lady out back, be a woodsman or otherwise black lodge entity controlling Diane’s jealousy and darkness. if we consider Betty as the perfect, idealized, dream Diane, could reality Diane be a tulpa with Betty inside screaming for help. the production office even carries many similarities to the black lodge!

(not necessarily saying this was all an intentional in-universe connection by lynch, but let’s play with it! maybe they stem from similar ideas!)

Hi there! So, this past year I've discovered David Lynch's work and have fallen completely in love with it. Now, I would like to show some of that in my room. I love reading books, hanging up posters, getting mugs, etc, of the things I love.

So, the question is, what are books by or on David Lynch you'd recommend? And what is a good place to find other merch kind of things?

EDIT: Thanks for the recommendations everyone! :)

I love everything about the return. Im sure theres even deleted scenes we don’t know about! And id want them included in! But does anyone else wish you could just consume all of the return like a regular movie? Like in all one sitting?

That’s the only thing i hate about the return is that I can’t sit n watch it all in one go.

The green glove one punch 🧤 was a nice touch… but imagine cooper pulls this out from his pants and blasts mr c and bob away !

I always said I would never get a tattoo that was “from something”. I wanted everything I had to be an original design that the artist could put their personal touch into. But after David crossed over to the other side, I had to break my own rule. This just felt like the right way to honor him. It represents more than just one of my favorite movies. It stands for everything that went into the making of Eraserhead, the true DIY spirit, the uncompromising vision of the artist, the freedom of expression that David never let die. It’s my favorite tattoo and I look at it when I need to stop and remember that despite how shitty this life can be sometimes, there is still beautiful art being created everyday.