David Lynch

Date of Birth: Jan 20, 1946
Country: USA
Biography: Lynch's films are known for surreal, nightmarish and dreamlike images and meticulously crafted sound design.
Total Titles at Criticker: 84 - You've Seen 0
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David Lynch Theater Presents: FIRE (POZAR) Written, Drawn and Directed by David Lynch Animated by Noriko Miyakawa Music by Marek Zebrowski (YouTube.com)
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Ant Head (2018) - Short Film
In Lynch’s own words, “Ant Head” is a “short video featuring my friends the ants along with cheese, etc. and one-and-a-half tracks from the ‘Thought Gang’ album.” (IndieWire)
Twin Peaks (2017) - TV Series
A continuation of the original Twin Peaks series (1990-1991).
The Black Ghiandola (2017) - Short Film
The Black Ghiandola is a story about a young man risking his life to save a young girl he has grown to love, after his family has been killed in the Apocalyptic world of Zombies. (imdb)
The spiritual journey of a ninety-year-old atheist. (imdb)
What Did Jack Do? (2017) - Short Film
A detective interrogates a monkey who is suspected of murder. (Netflix)
A documentary about Dennis Hopper (imdb)
30 years after the shooting of 'Blue Velvet', the classic film of David Lynch, the German filmmaker Peter Braatz revisits his original Super-8 material and numerous photographies, filmed 30 years ago on the set in Wilmington, USA. (imdb)
We have been granted unparalleled access to make a film that explores one of the most distinctive voices in modern cinema: David Lynch. (kickstarter.com)
Between Two Worlds (2014) - Direct-to-Video
"Twin Peaks" creator/director David Lynch interviews the Palmer Family about their current existence 25 years after the murder of daughter Laura, and then follows up with a round table discussion with the actors who played them.
Richard Beymer first met David Lynch when Lynch cast him as Ben Horne in the series Twin Peaks. Years later, Lynch saw one of Richard's documentaries on the founder of Transcendental Meditation, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and asked him to come to India to document a journey he was making tracing Maharishi's footsteps from one end of India to the other. This film is not just a record of their 10-day journey, it's also a rare and personal look at David Lynch "unplugged." (imdb)
Twin Peaks before Twin Peaks (1990) and at the same time not always and entirely in the same place as Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992). A feature film which presents deleted scenes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) assembled together for the first time in an untold portion of the story's prequel. (imdb)
Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, David Lynch, and Jonas Mekas, Oscar-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman shows what these filmmakers and others do that can't be expressed in words - but only in cinema. (imdb)
Idem Paris (2013) - Short Film
Short documentary that shows the operation of a lithograph machine at the Idem printmaking studio in Paris.
HARRY DEAN STANTON: PARTLY FICTION is a mesmerizing, impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor comprised of intimate moments, film clips from some of his 250 films and his own heart-breaking renditions of American folk songs. Stunningly lensed in color and b/w by Seamus McGarvey, the film explores the actor's enigmatic outlook on his life, his unexploited talents as a musician, and includes candid scenes with David Lynch, Wim Wenders, Sam Shepard, Kris Kristofferson and Debbie Harry. (imdb)
This documentary is an exhilarating, inspiring round-up of questions and answers from David Lynch's European & Middle East tours of 2007-2009, when he visited 16 countries to meet film students, receive national awards, launch university projects, and describe the extraordinary benefits for creativity and peace to be gained by transcending thought with Transcendental Meditation, introduced to the world by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. (David Lynch Foundation)
The documentary investigates the history, process and workflow of both digital and photochemical film creation. (imdb)
Crazy Clown Time (2012) - Short Film
The self-directed video for "Crazy Clown Time," the new single from the multi-talented director and songwriter David Lynch. (MUBI)
Duran Duran: Unstaged (2011) - Direct-to-Video
Equal parts stylish and surreal, David Lynch's experimental concert film captures iconic synth-rockers Duran Duran performing in Los Angeles in 2011. (Netflix)
I Touch a Red Button (2011) - Short Film
Animated short by David Lynch, with music by Interpol. A grotesque figure touches a red button.
The 3 Rs (2011) - Short Film
One-minute short film, used as a trailer for the Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale).
David Lynch: I Have a Radio (2011) - Short Film
Two animated figures dance to a minimalist song "I Have a Radio" by David Lynch.
Lady Blue Shanghai (2010) - Short Film
A nameless woman (Marion Cotillard) enters her Shanghai hotel room to find a vintage record playing and a blue Dior purse that seems to come from nowhere. The security guards that search her room find nothing and ask if the bag belongs to an acquaintance. The question reveals to the woman a vision of her traveling to the Pearl Tower and old Shanghai in search of a lost lover who cant stay with her... (imdb)
The unparalleled success story of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi began in the Himalayas. With the aim of spreading his meditation practice this Indian guru secured a many prominent followers. Today, almost six million people all over the world practice transcendental meditation. David, a young filmmaker in search of inspiration, also decides to try this method of meditation...
Created for an anthology film called 42 One Dream Rush.
An optimistic alternative to apocalyptic doom and gloom. Directed by E/A nominee João Amorim, Pinchbeck is on a quest for a new paradigm that integrates the archaic wisdom of tribal cultures with the scientific method. Rather than breakdown & barbarism, 2012 may herald the birth of a regenerative planetary culture where collaboration replaces competition, where exploration of psyche and spirit becomes the new cutting edge, replacing the sterile materialism that has pushed our world to the brink. (2012timeforchange.com)
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
The Cleveland Show (2009) - TV Series
The adventures of the Family Guy (1999) neighbor and deli owner, Cleveland Brown. (idmb)
Industrial Soundscape (2008) - Short Film
A looped short designed around a series of sounds generated by industrial machines.
The Big O in Britain (2008) - TV Movie
Roy Orbison was the best singer in the world. That's what Elvis Presley said, and he should know. Marking the twentieth anniversary of the death of 'The Big O', this film celebrates both Orbison's extraordinary talent and his relationship with his most loyal and enduring fans: British musicians and the British public. (imdb)
David Lynch cooks quinoa, which is a thing he does as much as possible.
Absurda (2007) - Short Film
Absurda is a David Lynch film shown at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. The film is approximately two and a half minutes long. Employing dream-like imagery, the visuals are stationary, showing a theater and the screen on which nightmarish images are projected. (wikipedia)
Turns this digital video of a ballerina into an impressionistic exercise.
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)
Blue Green (2007) - Short Film
Blue Green is a surreal, ambient short "film" capturing the mood and the lone tone of a giant industrial setting. True to the Lynchian form, psychological feel takes precedence over coherence and logic of the plot, if any, and interpretation is completely open to the individual's perception. (themoviedb.org)
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.
A Slice of Lynch (2007) - Short Film
David Lynch, Mädchen Amick, Kyle MacLachlan and John Wentworth reminisce about "Twin Peaks" while seated at a diner counter. (imdb)
Out Yonder (2007) - Short Film
An absurdist comedy short starring David Lynch and his son, Austin, who play two bizarre, high pitched characters with a very unique way with words. They encounter a large, destructive human figure referred to as "The Neighbor Boy". (imdb)
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.
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).
The Making of: Mulholland Drive (2004) - Short Film
A look behind the scenes at David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, featuring on-set interviews with Lynch and the actors.
The Short Films of David Lynch (2002) - Direct-to-Video
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)
A dead mouse get eaten by a bunch of ants.
Mysteries of Love (2002) - Direct-to-Video
A documentary about the 1986 film ''Blue Velvet''.
Rabbits (2002) - Short Film
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".
Darkened Room (2002) - Short Film
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)
Dumbland (2002) - TV Mini-Series
A series of comedic animations by David Lynch.
Pierre and Sonny Jim (2001) - Short Film
Two anthropomorphic rubber gloves make some distressing sounds.
Short animation about head with hammer.
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)
Eraserhead Stories (2001) - Direct-to-Video
David Lynch speaks of the making of his first feature film, Eraserhead.
A waiting room, a talking duck-man, a severed arm, a mysterious woman, a young man in a black suit and his doppelganger thumbs-upping each other.
Mulholland Drive (1999) - TV Movie
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.
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story (1999) - TV Movie
In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story is excellent tribute to a great man (imdb)
"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)
A look at the line between art and commerce. Hosted by Dennis Hopper
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.
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)
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)
Premonition Following an Evil Deed (1995) - Short Film
A short film about the events following a murder. (imdb)
Some Yo Yo Stuff (1994) - Short Film
Short documentary about Don Van Vliet aka. Captain Beefheart.
Hotel Room (1993) - TV Mini-Series
The lives of several people spanning from 1936 to 1993 are chronicled during their overnight stay at a New York City hotel room. The hotel room undergoes minor changes through the century, but the employees of the hotel remain unchanged, never aging. (imdb)
David Lynch's prequel to his cult television series "Twin Peaks" concerns the last seven days in the life of Laura Palmer.
On the Air (1992) - TV Series
Sitcom created by David Lynch and Mark Frost. In the United States only three episodes were aired, although seven were filmed. The program followed the antics of the staff of a fictional 1950s television network, as they tried to put on a live variety program called "The Lester Guy Show", with disastrous results. (Wikipedia)
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)
Twin Peaks (1990) - TV Series
An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. (imdb)
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.
A young orphan who lives with her grandmother in a large Virginian home infatuates herself with the voices of Joan d'Arc. Her nanny seeks out the help of a rich suitor (David Lynch's first real acting role) to take her and the orphan away when she realizes that the often cruel grandmother cannot offer the orphan the love that she needs. Ends with an unpredictable plot twist. (Jennifer Harrison)
The Cowboy and the Frenchman (1988) - TV Episode
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.
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.)
In the distant future, a man appears who may be the prophet that a long-suffering galaxy has been waiting for.
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)
They shocked us. They outraged us. They didn't do anything wrong. They just did it first.
Henry Spencer's life spins out of control when conflict erupts in his strange yet simple world (imdb)
The Amputee (1974) - Short Film
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)
The Grandmother (1970) - Short Film
A young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother. Short, surreal, and David Lynch's third film. (imdb)
The Alphabet (1968) - Short Film
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)
A commercial for Anacin.
Absurd Encounter with Fear (1967) - Short Film
One of David Lynch's first short films.
Six Figures Getting Sick (1966) - Short Film
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)