David Lynch Forever

David Lynch cast Naomi Watts, who was ready to give up acting, as a blonde who arrives in LA certain she’ll be a star, in what was meant to be a pilot for ABC. Luckily the network turned it down, and the dreamlike, unsettling Hollywood nightmare it became now has cult status. — The only survivor of a car crash on a road outside Los Angeles walks away from the wreck with no memory of who she is. She takes shelter in an empty flat, and that’s where Betty finds her, fresh from Canada and sure she’s about to become an actress. Together the two women set out to discover who this stranger is, and who she used to be. — Nomination for Best Director | Oscars | 2002 Nomination for Best FIlm | Golden Globes | 2002 Best Editing | BAFTA | 2002 Best Director | Cannes Film Festival | 2001

Here is everything we love David Lynch for: a man convicted of a murder he can’t remember becomes someone else entirely, in what may be a new life or only a new dream. Patricia Arquette plays a double role, Angelo Badalamenti supplies the music, and it’s hard to imagine anything more Lynchian. — Videotapes start turning up on the doorstep of a jazz saxophonist and his wife, filmed inside their house while they slept. Before long he’s convicted of killing her, a murder he has no memory of, and while he waits to die in his cell he somehow turns into a car mechanic living an entirely different life. Once the mechanic is set free, their paths begin to cross.

Back when everyone wanted Lynch to finally explain “Twin Peaks”, he answered with a prequel that only multiplies the questions, following Laura Palmer through the last seven days of her life. The film some fans first dismissed is now one many would follow into the Black Lodge. — David Lynch’s prequel to his own cult series begins in a small town in the Pacific Northwest. The FBI agent sent there to investigate the murder of a young woman, Teresa Banks, finds nothing and then vanishes himself. A year later, in nearby Twin Peaks, homecoming queen Laura Palmer has two boyfriends, a secret and seven days left to live. — Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 1992

In 1994 an elderly man rode a lawnmower nearly 400 kilometres to reach the brother he hadn’t spoken to in years, and Richard Farnsworth was 79 and had cancer when he played him. It’s David Lynch’s strangest film, precisely because it’s so ordinary. — Alvin Straight, of Laurens, Iowa, can barely walk, and no one is about to give him a driving licence. So when he hears that the brother he hasn’t spoken to in years has had a stroke, nearly 400 kilometres away, he starts up his lawnmower. It’s going to be a long ride. — Nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Richard Farnsworth) | Oscars | 2000 Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 1999 Screen International Award | European Film Awards | 1999

For five years David Lynch funded his debut on his wages from a night-time delivery round for the Wall Street Journal, and decades later nobody has explained its plot, nor probably ever will. This black-and-white nightmare, which seems to belong to the world of dreams, became a cult midnight movie. — Henry Spencer has a single room to himself in an industrial city whose machines never fall silent. Mary, his girlfriend, is permanently furious, while their baby, if it even is a baby, screams without end. Then Mary leaves, and Henry is alone with it.

Where reason ends, the cinema of David Lynch begins. As dreamy, nightmarish and “lynch” as ever, the great American director delivers a 3-hour magnum opus-riddle, where everything that makes his work unique, thrives. — A Hollywood star is set to star in the remake of a 'cursed' Polish film. As she immerses herself in the role, beginning to adopt the persona of her character, her world turns into a surreal nightmare. — Future Film Festival Digital Award | Venice Film Festival | 2006

Through more than 20 conversations recorded at his home, this documentary maps the life and career of the incomparable David Lynch - a must-watch gem for every fan of the director. — Director David Lynch takes us on a journey through the years that shaped him. From his idyllic childhood in a small American town to the dark streets of Philadelphia, we follow Lynch as he reflects on the moments that helped forge his career, offering a deeper understanding of the beloved filmmaker.

“Crude, stupid, violent, absurd.” This is how David Lynch himself describes the short animation series that he designed and soundtracked himself, alone, from his computer. Like a priceless, raw diary of ideas from the subconscious of a great auteur. - A series of five-minute line animations featuring an angry, violent Neanderthal and his family and neighbors.

An integral part of his totally unique cinematic gaze, David Lynch's short fragments are enchanting journeys into the surreal, enigmatic visual and narrative variations that challenge and stimulate perception and imagination. - DYNAMIC compiles David Lynch’s experimental short films, blending digital video’s raw aesthetic with his signature surrealism. Each film offers a fragment of his unique, dreamlike universe, originally accessible only on his former exclusive website.

A brief yet deeply revealing conversation with the singular filmmaker as he unravels the tangled web of the tumultuous process of making Eraserhead - the film that changed independent American cinema forever. — David Lynch evokes the shooting of his first film, in his Parisian studio. Initially a plastic artist, he made his first film -Eraserhead- in 1977. With a tight budget and 5 years of work, the film was eventually completed.

Delve deeper into David Lynch's labyrinthine, surreal, nightmarish universe with these eerie, hallucinatory shorts that reflect both the origins and evolution of his unique style. — A grizzled, hard-of-hearing cowboy, Silm, and his two friends capture a mysterous, well-dressed Frenchman.

Delve deeper into David Lynch's labyrinthine, surreal, nightmarish universe with these eerie, hallucinatory shorts that reflect both the origins and evolution of his unique style. — A short continuously looping animation of six grotesque human figures vomiting.

Delve deeper into David Lynch's labyrinthine, surreal, nightmarish universe with these eerie, hallucinatory shorts that reflect both the origins and evolution of his unique style. — A woman's dark and absurdist nightmare comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.

Delve deeper into David Lynch's labyrinthine, surreal, nightmarish universe with these eerie, hallucinatory shorts that reflect both the origins and evolution of his unique style. — A young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.

Delve deeper into David Lynch's labyrinthine, surreal, nightmarish universe with these eerie, hallucinatory shorts that reflect both the origins and evolution of his unique style. — A double leg amputated woman sits and writes a long meandering letter while her ineffective nurse attempts to attend to her stumps.

Delve deeper into David Lynch's labyrinthine, surreal, nightmarish universe with these eerie, hallucinatory shorts that reflect both the origins and evolution of his unique style. — A double leg amputated woman sits and writes a long meandering letter while her ineffective nurse attempts to attend to her stumps.