David Lynch Lady Dior...issues anyone?

[Andrew Rieger]

I understand if people can't watch or dislike his fiims, a lot of people can't handle watching Tarkovsky. I personally don't like a lot of Robert Bresson's films.

Funny, I can't enjoy any of Lynch's films (except for Blue Velvet but that is because Dennis Hopper is in it and I love him), yet I love all of Tarkovsky's work (as you can see by my quotes in the signature). Different strokes for different folks. I imagine even Lynch fans will have a hard time warming up to this vid. Funny, the last time that I saw Marion Cotillard, it was in in another production that went for a cheap video look, cough..... Public Enemies.... cough.

 

[Mark Allen]

I think the David Lynch Highlights are:

Eraserhead
Blue Velvet
Twin Peaks (first seven episodes)

I'm very sad he never made Ronnie Rocket and last I heard from him via my friend, never will.

He has some other films which are interesting, but for me don't hold the same level of connection. I think he is at his best when he is dealing with emotions actually. When he makes more characteur-based material, it seems like a parody of himself.

I totally agree that this video felt like someone making a fake David Lynch film yet not really understanding what makes him a great director.

About the video. I think he simply prefers the process of shooting with the video - something he can control and something easier to use - more than the actual look.itself. I find his use of video though to be in conflict with his iphone rant.

 

[J. P. Sendall]

What people don't get with Lynch is the man is a master of the surreal. Trying to make logical connections will not always work. Same with some of his technique, whether 'good' quality or not. It's not so much a suspension of disbelief but suspension of logic. Go with it and you get the full blown emotional and psychological effect. I admit this is not for everyone and that's natural. But for me 'Lost Highway' was quite a ride. I loved it and like most of his other work too. Just go with it, same with Tarkovsky even though his work is different. Just flow with it.

 

[Tim Hole]

Funny, I can't enjoy any of Lynch's films (except for Blue Velvet but that is because Dennis Hopper is in it and I love him), yet I love all of Tarkovsky's work (as you can see by my quotes in the signature). Different strokes for different folks. I imagine even Lynch fans will have a hard time warming up to this vid. Funny, the last time that I saw Marion Cotillard, it was in in another production that went for a cheap video look, cough..... Public Enemies.... cough.

That is the beauty of art I suppose. There are a lot of similarities in Lynch and Tarkovsky's use of time and space, dream and metaphor. But they are completely different in so many ways. Like Bergman noted Tarkovsky really did find the key. I can only dream of creating such impactful cinema. All I can do is try to tell my stories in the best possible fashion.

I found Public Enemies offensive to those that are doing what we can to advocate the digital medium. To me its like a slap in the face.

It's not so much a suspension of disbelief but suspension of logic. Go with it and you get the full blown emotional and psychological effect. I admit this is not for everyone and that's natural. But for me 'Lost Highway' was quite a ride. I loved it and like most of his other work too. Just go with it, same with Tarkovsky even though his work is different. Just flow with it.

The more you try and understand, the less you will understand. Lynch will intravenously inject you with ideas, images and emotion. A lynch film is literally an emotional rollercoaster. Lost Highway was the film that turned me to filmmaking, away from novels. It opened my eyes to another side of storytelling that I never knew existed, until that point.

 

[Tim Hole]

it's like a really bad student film..that's why i love it!
and i suspect lynch loved it too, thinking: 'fuck it..let's do something really cheesy really quick and get paid a lot of dough' - he couldn't care less for a silly bag.
he knows his name won't be tarnished. eager lynch fans will try to find deeper meanings in shots, where there are none.
i feel a bit bad for cotillard though. i'm sure she had something different in mind when she heard the names dior and lynch.

After seeing the forehead Tittaes advert I think she has a sense of humour though.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/5a52180b80/forehead-tittaes-w-marion-cotillard

 

[Mark Allen]

Trying to make logical connections will not always work.

If you've not read Ronnie Rocket, find it on the internet and read it. He wrote it right after Eraserhead I believe and basically it holds the "secrets" to a lot of his unusual choices. It could be that it not being made was great for him in that it gave him a lot of unusual concepts to pull from that seemed totally random since we didn't know the code book where they came from. It's still surreal, but there is definitely a little more logic in it than most people realize.

 

[Johan Malmsten]

fun to see the blue rose made a comeback

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ_lypbv1h4

But yes, Lynch ain't exactly like all the other children. I too have had some qualms with his work since he turned to low-grade digital tools. But then again, I cannot say that I don't like his view on life (even though his preachings about Trancendental Meditation did get pretty old pretty fast).

His views on the I-phone wasn't so much about making videos with it, instead it was about watching films made for theatrical distribution on tiny screens with shitty audio in less than controlled environments and then saying that you watched the film. As he said, "You may think you have seen it, but you won't in a million trillion years...". And I fully stand on his side on that.

Now this film/web-commercial. It's not one of his finer works. But it sure is his style with the off-center direction. I have read and heard him talk about digital filmmaking and that what he loves the most about it is the ease of use it brings. So, as the tools of this sort get better I always secretly hoped that his work would get back a bit towards his film-days in terms of sheer polished surface. Because, I believe that there are cameras out there in the same pricepoint and ease of use that will give far superior raw footage to work with. But then I would have to remember the other half of what he said, that he loved the feel of the image from these cameras. Comparing it to the old old days of film when they hadn't figured out the emulsions to get the natural images. And that tells me that it's maybe futile to think that he would steer his way back to his older film-days as technology progresses.

I do wonder though what a guy like lynch would do with a camera like the Red-One. If he would think that the Epic or Scarlet are easy enough to use on his bare-scraped sets once they arrive. Until then, I'll settle with his quirky sense of humor. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut6zdE8qWj0