Aug 18 2009 'My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done' Trailer: Lynch + Herzog + Birds!
Here's a film with an equal chance of being really good and really obtuse (probably both): My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done. The film is directed by Werner Herzog, executive produced by David Lynch, and stars Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe, Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon, Academy Award nominee Chloe Sevigny, Academy Award nominee some flamingos, Academy Award nominee a pack of ostriches, and a classically Lynchian arbitrary little person.
Trailer:
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Jun 16 2009 If David Lynch Directed 'Dirty Dancing'
Not as haunting a juxtaposition as If David Lynch Directed A Goofy Movie or If David Lynch Put Still-Warm Panties in His Mouth, but still definitely worth watching for some new perspective on putting Baby in a corner: David Lynch's Dirty Dancing.
(Thanks, Matt.)
Apr 16 2009 David Lynch Should Have Directed 'A Goofy Movie'
While looking at other David Lynch animations on YouTube, I just stumbled upon some great: a haunting trailer for A Goofy Movie as re-imagined by the surreal director. Prepare yourself for two minutes of finding Goofy's name completely inappropriate.
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Apr 16 2009 David Lynch Directed a Moby Video
If you thought Moby abandoned tunes in favor of making tea and vegan food, you were dead wrong, buddy. He's abandoned that and is still making music, and David Lynch is directing animation to go along with it.
Lynch's video for the single "Shot in the Back of the Head" was just posted on Moby's blog (thanks, Cal), and while it doesn't exactly carry the director's signature, you can imagine how it might if it were live-action, and that was an actual floating head, and all the scribbling was plot confusion. Here:
Jun 18 2008 David Lynch Uses Soft Stool Analogy to Explain Where Ideas Originate
Where do ideas come from? If we're talking about David Lynch's ideas, I'd assume they come from somewhere around the nexus of madness, genius, and near-evil. But as the director explains in this interview, that's not the case. Apparently, ideas come from bubbling up and hitting your consciousness ball, or from a man throwing puzzle pieces at you--and they definitely don't come from artistic suffering, because that would be like Van Gogh painting while constantly fighting intense diarrhea. I guess that makes sense, but it still doesn't fully explain the idea of uploading videos of yourself freakishly shoving panties in your mouth.
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May 20 2008 David Lynch Puts Some Still Warm Panties in His Mouth
As much as I try to keep abreast of developments from big-name directors, sometimes, despite my best efforts, things slip between the cracks. I missed that Frank Darabont will be directing Law Abiding Citizen with Gerard Butler in the lead; that Spielberg plans to return attention to his long-rumored Abraham Lincoln biopic once he finished work on Tintin; oh, and that David Lynch put a pair of a fan's still "very warm" panties in his mouth.
I find out the very day Lynch releases a video monologue complaining about the iPhone, but somehow no one thinks to send me the one where he shoves a girl's unmentionables in his mouth--even when it's been around long enough to be re-mixed with Twin Peaks music. (IT HAS.) Thanks for nothing, internet denizens.
Disturbing video below the cut.
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Jan 7 2008 David Lynch Tactfully Explains Faults in Watching Movies on iPhones
Further proof that David Lynch is a great director, even greater madman. He's right, but still crazy as anything. Video under the cut.
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Oct 19 2007 I Love 'Twin Peaks' and Its Gold Box
Is it necessary for a DVD box set to have a trailer? Probably not, especially if it's for Nel Carter's Gimme a Break. But when it's for David Lynch's Twin Peaks, I'm sort of glad it does.
Because this is, as the trailer will remind you several times, a gold box edition, it's got every episode, deleted scenes and tons of never-before-seen features, including more proof that David Lynch is completely insane. (To quote him, addressing the cast as if they don't understand English, "I... LOVE... TWIN... PEAKS... AND... ITS... WORLD.")
Watch and get excited for its October 30 release, when you can finally show your friends what you mean when you say, "You think Fight Club is f***ed up? Dude, you should see Twin Peaks!"
And try not to throw up too much in your mouth when the announcer informs you the collection is "worth its weight... IN GOLD."
Oct 1 2007 David Lynch Sells Out, Peddles Gucci
I know David Lynch has done some commercial work in the past, and that it's not uncommon for modern directors to pawn products, but seeing this commercial by the Eraserhead director for Gucci by Gucci was still a real disappointment. This minute of models doing what must be the waifish equivalent of dancing (swaying gently with passing breezes) to the tune of "Heart of Glass," all I could think was, "Oh god, was there a time when David Lynch would dance to Blondie?" I never wanted to know that. That and I never like seeing something from David Lynch that makes sense on the initial viewing.
