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Lynch isn't in need of Criterion, it's more the other way around

perkizitore wrote:Lynch isn't in need of Criterion, it's more the other way around

If MGM releases the Blu it'll have the same quality treatment and features and will be at least half the cost. Yet you want Criterion to release this because... ?

This was meant to be a joke based on Alan Smithee's comment; Lynch is more well known than Criterion!

I want Criterion to release it so I will never again have to read "when will Criterion release David Lynch?"

BLUE VELVET will NOT be Criterion. Sorry for those of you who were hoping it would be.

A couple of my (lucky) co-workers were with Lynch for the color timing sessions. They say he was very pleased with the final results.

Animated short film "I Touch A Red Button Man" that Lynch made for Interpol to show at their Coachella set this past April.

Eraserhead coming to Blu-ray in Australia on September 1st.

By the way, why isn't this thread in the Filmmakers section? It was a bitch to find.

David Lynch announces his debut LP, Crazy Clown Time, to be released November 8th.

In other news, this thread is still under "New Films" and not "Filmmakers"

Because there's no filmography, quote, bibliography etc at the start. I wonder if this Blu from Oz means a US one might be near as well... I wonder if anyone is thinking what I'm thinking about who might be releasing it, guess we can't say anything though after what happened last time!

I'll make one if someone wants to mod me!

mfunk9786 wrote:I'll make one if someone wants to mod me!

Please do. PM it to me once you're done, because I'll have to figure out a way to make it the first post in this thread while still giving you full credit (I may just replace the first post altogether since it's worth losing anyway).

I'll work on it this evening.

Michael wrote:Has David Lynch retired?

I guess people watching his films, "on a fucking cell phone" was the last straw.

What a red herring of a headline. If Lynch wants to make another film, he'll make another film. He's earned that kind of freedom.

You're right but I still really wish he'd just make another film (preferably my "Return to Twin Peaks" dream project--the 25 year anniversary is fast approaching after all). Having said all that, that video he made for Interpol is amongst the strongest, most pure, potent and direct things I think he's ever done. Absolutely enrapturing and essential. Now if only he would work with Swans...

I don't know...I TOUCH A RED BUTTON is good for about 20 seconds or so, but at five-and-a-half minutes it overstays its welcome. I realize the animation accompanies an Interpol song that was already a given length, but it's really just a one-note idea put on a loop.

Despite trying too hard to ape Lynch, I prefer the contest winner's video for Lynch's song "Good Day Today".

I can certainly recommend seeing the short while under the influence of various substances at Coachella.

Michael wrote:Has David Lynch retired?

The headline does seem like an exaggerated attention-grabber for a non-story. Focusing on short films and other projects is not necessarily retirement. In the penultimate response in this, for example, he refers to a one-minute film and "another new film" that he's surely not ready to talk about yet, which could be a feature. Or maybe he'll return to features later.

Roger Ryan wrote:I don't know...I TOUCH A RED BUTTON is good for about 20 seconds or so, but at five-and-a-half minutes it overstays its welcome. I realize the animation accompanies an Interpol song that was already a given length, but it's really just a one-note idea put on a loop.

The reason I think it's so strong has a lot to do with conceding to your point. It is just a one-note idea. But in that lies its accomplishment, I think. It's so very simple and yet so precisely, sensitively keyed to the nuances of the movement of the music (its flow, its ebbs, its tightening up and release). That on its own is striking and impressive especially given how little image fluctuation there is. But in that strategic technique Lynch also manages to find a way to access a deeply troubling quality, some kind of unspecifiable distress. I realize this is his stock-in-trade but once again it's the fact that he can do it so precisely and disturb on such a profound, primitive level with something so simple (almost no variation in imagery, making the variations there are--when and where and what--all that much more crucial); this is what makes it extraordinary to me.

I agree, I thought that video was great, very striking and sort of in a similar stripped-down repetitive style (making the minute changes all the more disturbing) to the "My teeth are bleeding" episode of Dumbland. It is also a great illustration of someone performing the same action over and over again expecting a different result - the definition of insanity or just of perfoming menial tasks for no particular goal?

Now the DUMBLAND episode I find very watchable, but I think there is enough variation and interesting things happening to justify its length. It strikes me that what significantly diminishes my appreciation of RED BUTTON is the absence of a soundtrack by Lynch. The Interpol song is not a suitable substitute for a full-blown Lynch sound design which is such an important part of anything Lynch does in the audio/visual medium. I can only imagine what grating sound effect is meant to accompany that button being pushed or what disturbing utterances might be coming forth from the character itself.

Australian Blu-ray for Eraserhead has been postponed. Lynch is now involved.

JamesF wrote:I can't tell if this is a parody or not.

Whoever did it, it was genuinely unsettling.