Tag: David Lynch

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Karel Veliky is the doyen of the Czech New Right, the creator of the vast majority of publications from Delian Diver, and one of the masterminds behind the entire project. Although Karel Veliky specializes primarily in writing books and comprehensive essays on topics such as Knut Hamsun, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Yukio Mishima, neo-fascism, the New Right, etc., the author has also found time to address more popular topics such as films from the Third Reich, Fascist Italy, Spain, and the occupied territories in the series “We & Film.” (more…)

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Director David Lynch was born on this day in 1946 in Missoula, Montana. Lynch’s father was a research scientist with the US Department of Agriculture, which moved him around a good deal, thus Lynch grew up in the Pacific Northwest, North Carolina, and Northern Virginia. Lynch studied art and design at several schools. In addition to writing and directing films, he was a painter, sculptor, photographer, writer, and music composer/producer, as well as an inveterate tinkerer. (more…)

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You can preorder The Best of Trevor Lynch here

Ondrej Mann: What does your pseudonym Trevor Lynch mean? Is there a story behind it?

Trevor Lynch: My first reviews were published with the pen name The Cat Lady. It was a joke. It amused me to imagine Savitri Devi reviewing contemporary films. I was also tired of the lament, which was a cliché even 25 years ago, “What can we do to attract more women to the movement?” (more…)

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American filmmaker David Lynch died today, just a few days short of his 79th birthday. Lynch smoked cigarettes on and off since he was eight years old. In August of 2024, he revealed that he had serious emphysema which forced him to use oxygen simply to walk across a room. His family announced his death on Facebook but did not disclose its cause. David Lynch was married four times and had a long-term relationship with actress Isabella Rossellini. He fathered four children and many works of art.  (more…)

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Меня преследует чувство, будто я вырос в Твин Пикс, вымышленном городке лесозаготовителей в Вашингтоне. Одноимённый культовый сериал Дэвида Линча транслировался на канале ABC с весны 1990 года до весны 1991 года. «Твин Пикс» имел один из лучших пилотных эпизодов в истории телевидения, за которым последовал сокращенный первый сезон, состоящий из семи серий. (more…)

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Frank Herbert’s original novel Dune (1965) is a brilliant synthesis of the futurism of science fiction and the archaism of fantasy literature. Denis Villeneuve’s continuing film adaptation Dune: Part Two is now in theaters. It is a bit better than the first part, but has all the same problems, and a few new ones, so I can’t recommend it. Like the first part, it is not terrible, just mediocre: dull to my eyes, grating to my ears, trying to my patience, an insult to my intelligence, and worst of all: just another Hollywood attack on white people. (more…)

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Frank Herbert’s six Dune novels fall into three pairs. Dune (1965) and Dune Messiah (1969) chart the rise and fall of Paul “Muad’Dib” Atreides, a man who becomes a superman and the God Emperor of the known universe. Children of Dune (1976) and God Emperor of Dune (1981) narrate the rise and fall of Paul’s son, Leto II, a superman who transforms himself into a monster and rules for 3,500 years. Heretics of Dune (1984)[1] and Chapterhouse: Dune (1985)[2] are set 1,500 years after God Emperor and focus on the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood’s struggle with their evil twin, a sisterhood that calls itself the Honored Matres. (more…)

The rankings of cinema classics are being affected by affirmative action, just like everything else.

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The results of the Sight and Sound poll of the Greatest Films of All Time were announced earlier this month. The prestigious, once-a-decade poll, which has been conducted since 1952, is widely regarded as an arbiter of the canon of cinema. This year’s results bear the unmistakable influence of film-school fads and rabid identity politics.

This year’s list is noticeably more diverse than the previous one. The number of films made by black directors that appear on it increased from one to seven, and the number of films made by women increased from two to eleven. (more…)

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David Lynch’s second feature film, The Elephant Man (1980), is one of his finest works. In many ways, The Elephant Man is Lynch’s most conventional “Hollywood” film. (Dune too is a “Hollywood” film, but a failed one.) The cast of The Elephant Man is quite distinguished, including John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Sir John Gielgud, Dame Wendy Hiller, and Anne Bancroft. The film was produced by Mel Brooks, who left his name off so that people would not expect a comedy. (more…)

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David Lynch’s 1992 movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is his prequel to the Twin Peaks series, which ran on ABC from 1990 to 1991. Fire Walk with Me was a flop with critics and moviegoers, except in Japan. This is unjust, because Fire Walk with Me is a very fine movie. I won’t say it is Lynch’s best work. That praise belongs to Blue Velvet alone. But the music to Fire Walk with Me is composer Angelo Badalamenti’s best work ever. (more…)

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I feel like I grew up in Twin Peaks, the fictional Washington logging town that gave its name to David Lynch’s iconic TV series, which aired on ABC from the spring of 1990 to the spring of 1991. Twin Peaks has one of the best pilots in television history, which was followed by an abbreviated first season of seven episodes. (more…)

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When I saw Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks, I was convinced that David Lynch is an essentially conservative and religious filmmaker, with a populist and mystical bent. Arguing that thesis was an uphill battle as his work got increasingly dark in the nineties. Many people interpreted Lynch’s portrayals of quirky, salt-of-the-Earth white Americans as parody, his mysticism as arbitrary weirdness, and his depictions of evil and violence as inconsistent with having a conservative and religious moral center. (more…)

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Lost Highway is probably not a lot of people’s favorite David Lynch film. I would rank it in the lower rungs of his canon. But it is still a masterful film that draws me back again and again.

The big question about Lost Highway is what actually happens. This movie has a plot that you can fully summarize without really spoiling it, because the meaning is never really given away. (more…)