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Topic: RIP David LynchPosted By: Captain Midnight
Subject: RIP David Lynch
Date Posted: January 17 2025 at 00:46
Yesterday marks the unfortunate passing of legendary film director/artist David Lynch, any fans here?
Replies: Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 17 2025 at 00:59
Horrible news, and huge fan.
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: January 17 2025 at 04:41
"In Heaven, everything is fine In Heaven, everything is fine In Heaven, everything is fine You've got your good things And I've got mine In Heaven, everything is fine"
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: January 17 2025 at 04:55
never a fan tbh, but I realise he was an important film maker...
may he RIP
------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: January 17 2025 at 06:37
One of my favourite directors of all time - maker of such classics as 'Something Wild', 'Blue Velvet', 'Mulholland Drive', 'Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me' and 'Wild at Heart' amongst others.
------------- Is it any wonder that the monkey's confused?
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: January 17 2025 at 08:11
I'm trying to find one film that I actually liked from him (not that I've seen them all), and I'm coming up empty. I followed everything from him (somehow involuntarly) until Wild At Heart, which was the drop that overflood the bucket.
RIP anyways.
------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: January 17 2025 at 09:10
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: January 17 2025 at 09:17
Big Fan. Sad news.
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 17 2025 at 11:05
This actually hit me like a ton of bricks when I read this yesterday. I had not been following the news.
It really was not until after Twin Peaks: The Return (2017) came out that I would say I took a very big interest in Lynch (even if his much criticided, including by him, Dune was a favourite of mine). Because of that I decided to finally watch the original run, Fire Walk With Me, and The Return (I think the Return is an amazing continuation to a show that came out decades before). Twin Peaks became super special to me.
Just saw this video someone put together as a The Return trailer (fan-made trailer thing):
When I was in a playwriting class back in 2000, the students and instructor were together for a smoke break (great bunch of people, favourite class I ever had by far, all felt like friends) the conversation turned to Fire Walk With Me. All seemed to know it but me. Well now I do and know what I was missing out.
Some of the following I had seen before, but I watched with more appreciation than ever after getting into Twin Peaks. After Twin Peaks I watched Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Wild at Heart, and for some reason his Dune adaptation (which he didn't like and disliked the studio interference) I have loved since it came out. I have no idea how many times I have played that. But it's something I have on my PVR, and I had it on my last PVR.. It is my ultimate comfort food film . Nary a day goes by that I do not think, "And how can this be? For he is the Kwisatz Haderach!" It makes me smile.
My avatar if it's not clear is a reference to Twin Peaks -- someone made it on the internet and I took (I should have asked). Note cherry pie, black coffee, the red curtains, the peaks topping the pie.
It hit me harder because I have listened to David Lynch talking a lot over the past seven or so years because of my infatuation with his works. He was an unusual guy with unusual thoughts (even wacky one might say), is inspired by his dreams, and endearing even if he had some morbid fascinations.
I really like the short film What Did Jack Do? by Lynch. It's on Netflix. Here is an excerpt.
And he directed various music videos, including for Moby, Nine Inch Nails, Donovan, Rammstein.
Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: January 17 2025 at 14:09
Ah, sad news indeed. He's probably my favourite director too. I often think of his movies, they've had that much impact on me. Rabbits is one of the oddest, scariest, weird, mind-bending piece of film/tv I've ever seen. Certainly a genius and will be greatly missed. RIP.
------------- Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen