Features
Monday, January 9 2012
The Best DVDs of 2011
With the continuing rise of Blu-ray, this year sees a lot of repeat entries. Just because they're here again, however, doesn't mean they're any less special.
Friday, August 19 2011
The 100 Essential Directors Part 6: Ernst Lubitsch to Vincente Minnelli
Today runs the gamut. Hollywood to indie art house, female perspective to male, screwball comedy to chamber drama. The odyssey from Ernst Lubitsch to Vincente Minnelli will provide illumination on how film's first special effects were used, how two brothers presciently preceded reality TV in the Hamptons, and why some directors prefer to work about once a decade on average...
Thursday, March 26 2009
Part 4: All About My Mother to Sleepy Hollow (October - November 1999)
Outsiders and oddballs make up Part Four's formidable filmmakers, an idiosyncratic collection of dreamers and visionaries.
Monday, October 13 2008
Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 1
Day One - A trip back to the classic days of studio system Hollywood, complete with great musicals, amazing adventure yarns, and a couple of post-modern freak outs, just to keep things controversial and lively.
Wednesday, June 20 2007
Part 3: The Stellar '70s
When it comes to post-modern moviemaking, everyone stereotypes the Me Decade as the genre's defining moment. In this case -- as illustrated by the 10 films that represent it -- the categorization is more than accurate.
Reviews
Wednesday, November 30 2011
The Twisted American Classic, 'Blue Velvet' Gets a Deluxe HD Treatment
David Lynch’s work has never been known for its visual beauty, in fact he indulges in the grotesque, the morbid and some of the most repulsive traits concealed in humans.
Thursday, November 10 2011
David Lynch: Crazy Clown Time
The world is a scary place these days but Crazy Clown Time is not. David Lynch excels at darkly surreal visual expression as a musical consultant, but his position as a solo musical artist is still in question.
Monday, January 8 2007
Inland Empire (2006)
Nikki's story takes her deep inside herself or deep inside the movie industry.No matter how you're inclined to read the film's final dancers, the scene offers a Lynchian Rorschach test. What you see tells you something about you.
Monday, January 3 2005
Wild at Heart: Special Edition (1990)
'The most rewarding thing about working with David,' says cinematographer Frederick Elmes, 'is helping him see the vision through.'"
Monday, December 15 2003
Eraserhead (1977)
Whatever it 'means,' Eraserhead makes clear that no one since the glory days of pre-color Hollywood understands the dramatic power of monochrome moviemaking better than David Lynch.
Blogs
Tuesday, November 8 2011
The 10 Reasons Why 'Blue Velvet' Is a David Lynch Masterpiece
There are several reasons why David Lynch's third film is a masterpiece. Here are merely 10 of them.
Thursday, January 20 2011
An Open Letter to David Lynch
I guess what I’m asking is "why don’t you make another movie?" Is it a matter of money? Is it really that hard for someone as undeniably gifted as you to find financing for your latest flights of fancy?
Thursday, December 9 2010
Synthhead: David Lynch Releases New Song Ahead of Planned Album
David Lynch's newly released single track, "Good Day Today".
Wednesday, May 19 2010
"Lady Blue Shanghai": David Lynch's New Short Film
The legendarily strange auteur returns, possibly to sell glowing blue handbags.
Saturday, April 17 2010
Dune (1984): Blu-ray
Now, in a far less Star Wars saturated landscape, Dune can be viewed as what it is: a brilliant mistake, misguided from the start but still aesthetically satisfying.
News
Thursday, May 1 2008
David Lynch tours to tout the benefits of Transcendental Meditation in schools
David Lynch doesn't want to be the spokesman for anything. The Oscar-nominated director still prefers to let his movies - such as "Eraserhead," "The Elephant…
Thursday, January 25 2007
Bingo! Bango! Bliss?? An interview with David Lynch
SEATTLE -- It's natural to think of David Lynch accompanied by a low, menacing hum in real life. Not an aura of bliss. But I'm…
