I’ve recently had the lovely pleasure of reading an incredibly smart, crafty and erudite book, Masters of the Grotesque: The Cinema of Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, the Coen Brothers and David Lynch. This is the kind of book that most of us want to write, but very few of us could actually write. Schuy Weishaar […]
(Join Jeffrey Overstreet and Michael Leary as they discuss the Top Ten films from the recent Sight & Sound Greatest Films poll. Visit the “Sight & Sounds Greatest Films Conversation” tag for previous installments.) ML: This was an interesting biographical experience. I haven’t seen this film for many years, long enough that I think I […]
It is tough to say much more about David Lynch’s Fire Walk With Me than what is covered in the recent review/digest by Alex Pappademas over at Grantland. This lengthy list of the surreal contours of Laura Palmer’s backstory is perhaps a model of efficiency for Lynch criticism, as it captures the sense of assemblage […]
(Ed. Note: This was originally published at The Matthew’s House Project.) Or, David Lynch 101 Mulholland Drive is the latest addition to a bizarre canon. This canon is a body of work slowly spreading out through film history on a trail pioneered by films designed to defy conventional methods of understanding. Next to Tarkovsky’s stark clarity or […]