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David Lynch
portrait Date of Birth: Jan 20, 1946
Nationality: American
Biography: Lynch's films are known for surreal, nightmarish and dreamlike images and meticulously crafted sound design.
Total Films at Criticker: 28 - You've Seen 0
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Great Directors (2009)
Summary: Features original, in-depth conversations with nine of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles
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More Things That Happened (2007)
Summary: An extended suite of "Inland Empire" additional scenes that turns out to be somewhere halfway between a traditional deleted scenes segment and a whole new film from David Lynch.
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Lynch (2007)
Summary: Compiled from over two years of footage, the film is an intimate portrait of Lynch's creative process. We follow Lynch as he discovers beauty in ideas, leading us on a journey through the abstract which ultimately unveils his cinematic vision. The first in a planned trilogy about the maverick filmmaker. (imdb)
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Boat (2007)
Summary: A journey into night. (imdb)
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Inland Empire (2006)
Summary: An actress's perception of reality becomes increasingly distorted as she finds herself falling for her co-star in a remake of an unfinished Polish production that was supposedly cursed.
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Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream (2005)
Summary: Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream tells the hidden history of these landmark films, El Topo (1970), Night of the Living Dead (1968), The Harder They Come (1973), Pink Flamingos (1972), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), and Eraserhead (1977).
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Dumbland (2002)
Summary: A series of comedic animations by David Lynch.
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Short Films of David Lynch, The (2002)
Summary: A must-see for fans of the legendary filmmaker David Lynch, this collecton features six short films from the master of the macabre. (Amazon.com)
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Rabbits (2002)
Summary: A story of a group of humanoid rabbits and their depressive, daily life. The plot includes Jane ironing, Suzie sitting on a couch, Jack walking in and out of the apartment, and the occasional solo singing number by Suzie or Jane. At one point the rabbits also make contact with their "leader".
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Darkened Room (2002)
Summary: In the first half of the film, a Japanese woman shows us her apartment in Tokyo and muses on the amount of bananas produced worldwide. The woman then tells us that her friend next door is sad. In the second half, a blonde woman (Jordan Ladd) sits on a sofa and cries. Then a brunette woman (Cerina Vincent) enters and says cruel things to her, before threatening to tell her the truth. The film ends with a fade to black... (Wikipedia.org)
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Mulholland Drive (2001)
Summary: In this complex tale of suspense, set in the unreal universe of Los Angeles, writer/director David Lynch explores the city's schizophrenic nature, an uneasy blend of innocence and corruption, love and loneliness, beauty and depravity. (Universal Focus)
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Mulholland Drive (1999)
Summary: NOT THE FILM but the TV Pilot for the never-realized program: Lynch's Picture Factory joined with Imagine Television in association with Touchstone Television to produce this two-hour ABC pilot. ABC passed on it due to the violence and the pilot was left in limbo until 18 months later Studio Canal Plus agreed to pay ABC $7 million to turn "Mulholland Dr." into a film.
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Straight Story, The (1999)
Summary: "The Straight Story" chronicles a trip made by 73-year-old Alvin Straight from Laurens, Iowa, to Mt. Zion, Wis., in 1994 while riding a lawn mower. The man undertook his strange journey to mend his relationship with his ill, estranged, 75-year-old brother Lyle. (imdb)
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Lost Highway (1997)
Summary: A jazz musician, tortured by the notion that his wife is having an affair, suddenly finds himself accused of her murder. In a parallel story, a young mechanic is drawn into a web of deceit by a temptress who is cheating on her gangster boyfriend.
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Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch (1997)
Summary: Director David Lynch has produced as distinctive a body of work as any filmmaker of his generation, with films like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, and Lost Highway. Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch shows the filmmaker at work on the set of Lost Highway as well as examining his creative pursuits as a writer, composer, photographer, and painter. (All Movie Guide)
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Lumière et compagnie (1995)
Summary: 40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes. The results run the gamut from Zhang Yimou's convention-thwarting joke to David Lynch's bizarre miniature epic. (imdb)
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)
Summary: David Lynch's prequel to his cult television series "Twin Peaks" concerns the last seven days in the life of Laura Palmer.
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Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Broken Hearted (1990)
Summary: After her boyfriend ends their relationship, the dreamself of a heartbroken woman floats through the air over an industrial wasteland singing ballads of love. (imdb)
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Wild at Heart (1990)
Summary: Sailor and Lula are in love in a way that seems so strong that nothing could ever corrupt it. Yet their past contains ghosts, and there are dark forces which are railed against them. As Sailor and Lula head out by road across the United States, these ghosts and these forces slowly catch up with them, putting their love to the test, and ultimately placing it in jeopardy.
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Cowboy and the Frenchman, The (1988)
Summary: Slim, Pete and Dusty spend a lazy afternoon on the ranch, when they discover a lost French man. There is a huge language gap, but mutual goodwill seems to bind them together.
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Blue Velvet (1986)
Summary: Set in a small American town, Blue Velvet is a dark, sensuous mystery involving the intertwining lives of four very different individuals. The film's painful realism reminds us that we are not immune to the disturbing events which transpire in Blue Velvet's sleepy community. There is a darker side of life waiting for us all. (De Laurentiis Entertainment Group Inc.)
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Dune (1984)
Summary: In the distant future, a man appears who may be the prophet that a long-suffering galaxy has been waiting for.
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Elephant Man, The (1980)
Summary: A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity. (imdb)
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Eraserhead (1977)
Summary: Henry Spencer's life spins out of control when conflict erupts in his strange yet simple world (imdb)
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Amputee, The (1974)
Summary: In this plotless 5 minute short, Catherine Coulson plays a legless double-amputee who, throughout the film, is going over a letter she is writing. She makes marks on the letter, and we hear a voice-over of her reading through it... (imdb)
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Grandmother, The (1970)
Summary: A young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother. Short, surreal, and David Lynch's third film. (imdb)
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Alphabet, The (1968)
Summary: Against a backdrop of bizarre shapes and textures, a small organic figure gives birth to the letters of the alphabet while a mixture of children's voices and an operatic tune are singing out. The figure's head collapses causing blood to rain on a girl while she lays in her bed, resulting in the girl violently vomiting blood herself. (imdb)
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Six Figures Getting Sick (1966)
Summary: Lynch's first film project, it is basically an endlessly repeating film of people vomiting with their heads on fire projected on to a special sculptured screen featuring twisted three-dimensional faces in various states of puking. (imdb)