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.
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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 by identifying repetitive behaviors as identity. At some point, we might even say we "know" a person. Lynch's Lost Highway shows that we don't know anything about each other.
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.
The Darkness Within: 13 Films That Burrow into Our Psyches
These 13 films help us understand horror as an important mode of cultural expression, as a means to explore the dark inner recesses of ourselves and our society.
Shadows and Light in the Female Form: On ‘David Lynch Nudes’
As with David Lynch's films, so too in his photography, plots are illogical and non-linear as they take a back seat to mood, atmosphere, and objectification.