It's a mutual admiration. Malick's KNIGHT OF CUPS contains the audio of Major Briggs' description of his dream to Bobby, playing over shots of L.A.
― Chris L, Thursday, 29 June 2017 13:33 (six years ago) link
oh shit, yeah, that kinda did my head in when that popped up
― circa1916, Thursday, 29 June 2017 13:36 (six years ago) link
That was so random lol
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Thursday, 29 June 2017 13:37 (six years ago) link
I like The Fountain :/
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 29 June 2017 13:41 (six years ago) link
maybe it was Fantasia
― circa1916, Thursday, 29 June 2017 13:47 (six years ago) link
Not that it wasn't necessarily chosen because he admires the monologue, but the bit in Knight of Cups is a Biosphere track, no?
― Melissa W, Thursday, 29 June 2017 14:20 (six years ago) link
Ohhh that makes so much more sense!
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Thursday, 29 June 2017 14:22 (six years ago) link
I think there's a big difference between Lynch's probable ancient esoterica and to avant garde film (since he occasionally is an avant garde film director)! I'd be shocked if he hasn't seen every movie mentioned upthread. Begotten is the most obscure one, it seems to me, but even that was the subject of a lot of discussion among Movie People in the 90s, iirc.
― Dan I., Thursday, 29 June 2017 14:23 (six years ago) link
probable exposure that is
it's gotta be a little hard being Mark Frost
― circa1916, Thursday, 29 June 2017 14:29 (six years ago) link
Lynch is avowedly not a cinephile, he has his pantheon of classics that he goes back to but he isn't really up on world cinema or experimental/underground films, although there's a chance he would have been exposed to some of it at the afi
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Thursday, 29 June 2017 14:34 (six years ago) link
I agree that it's not really productive to dissect this show into atoms, but the impulse comes from earnest and unobjectionable enthusiasm!
― Dan I., Thursday, 29 June 2017 14:40 (six years ago) link
yeah, Lynch is not absorbing avant-garde cinema on the regular if his interviews are to be believed. guy claims to have never seen a Maya Deren film and i always assumed she was a major influence.
― circa1916, Thursday, 29 June 2017 14:43 (six years ago) link
someone said that previously but I find it hard to believe. A friends claims that he had talked about Deren but someone here said he said he'd never seen Deren. I can't find proof of either on the internet but I'd say that it was virtually impossible that he hadn't seen Meshes, which three of his films play quite explicit homage to. If anyone has a link where he talks about not having seen it then I'd be interested and amazed to see it.
It also seems that Tscherassky's Outer Space, Brakhage and Trumball's tToL & 2001 work are undeniably being referenced here. I do realise you have to take some of Lynch's prononcements with a pinch of salt but there are famous films that anyone of a certain age with an interest in abstaction will have seen, especially if that person is an animator.
― Heavy Doors (jed_), Thursday, 29 June 2017 15:34 (six years ago) link
(fwiw im not claiming that he hasn't seen 2001)
― Heavy Doors (jed_), Thursday, 29 June 2017 15:39 (six years ago) link
He went to film school
He has probably seen some movies
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 29 June 2017 15:39 (six years ago) link
There are so many music critics on ILX that the disingenuousness of a lot of creators w/r/t their influences must be familiar. I'm not sure an issue of NME ever went by without at least one band claiming to have never even heard of, and certainly not been influenced by, some other band that they sound exactly like and have obviously listened to a great deal.
― Dan I., Thursday, 29 June 2017 15:42 (six years ago) link
xp it would be pretty cool if he literally hasn't
― circa1916, Thursday, 29 June 2017 15:43 (six years ago) link
yeah I'm sceptical of the deren claim too & said so itt iirc, it would be one hell of a coincidence if so. As I say I think he would have encountered some of this stuff in film school. I don't have much reason to disbelieve that he hasn't kept up with the cutting edge of cinema post-1977 or so though, like we know he's a fan of malick & kubrick but I's be surprised if he's seen any maddin for example. It's not impossible to imagine arriving at a lot of the visual stuff in this more or less independently (not that anything ever is really "independent" like that) as an extension of stuff that he's been doing since he first made his paintings move. But my original point, which I'll stop making now, is that the likelihood or otherwise of lynch having this stuff in mind shouldn't stop anyone from making the connections
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Thursday, 29 June 2017 16:21 (six years ago) link
I think the notion that Lynch isn't influenced by other filmmakers is primarily based on preserving the notion of "Lynchian" as being this ineffable quality that no one else has genuine access to and exists in a kind of vacuum (see also the notion of Lynch as a naif etc). I see why people make the argument but I don't buy it
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 29 June 2017 18:18 (six years ago) link
i don't think anyone (here) is arguing that he isn't influenced by other filmmakers
anyway, this is more important i think:
"Lynch was also a member of the high school fraternity Alpha Omega Upsilon, and learned to play the bongos while frequenting a nightclub popular with the Beat Generation, earning the nickname "Bongo Dave".[13]"
― circa1916, Thursday, 29 June 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link
yeah I didn't mean anyone here, I was speaking more broadly
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 29 June 2017 18:43 (six years ago) link
Yeah he def is I just don't think he's all that interested in going out and seeing them. Maybe I'm wrong and you couldn't drag him away from the Hou or Costa season at the local arthouse but I don't think so (I also have a feeling he isn't alone in this among us directors). In general he seems a little - not solipsistic exactly, but certainly very narrow in his interests: painting, meditating, eating the same meal every day and only watching the one tv show about car repair or whatever
Of course a lot of this may be interview schtick and printing-the-legend, who knows what the real truth is (or cares)
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Thursday, 29 June 2017 18:51 (six years ago) link
this is discussed a *little* bit on the new 'cast (out tonight I think)
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 29 June 2017 18:54 (six years ago) link
speaking of influences, in tony oursler's book IMPONDERABLE, which i've been obsessively thumbing through for the past week or so, there are tons of images of psychics/mediums/etc excreting ectoplasm as they channel spirits and the paranormal.
e.g., check out this mouthbarfing medium:
http://i.imgur.com/ykNkRTm.jpg
or check out this stomachbarfing medium:
http://i.imgur.com/QnHJeYk.jpg
the ectoplasm was associated with the creation of spirits, or at least the summoning of them. apologies if the ectoplasm > spirit formation thing is already common knowledge to everyone, but it was all new to me.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 29 June 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link
...i guess i should state the obvious connection to garmonbozia and the slow motion vomit sequence in episode 8
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 29 June 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
Was gonna suggest if you get Dennis Lim on you can ask him how much is bullshit xp
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Thursday, 29 June 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
Wow @ those pics
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Thursday, 29 June 2017 19:00 (six years ago) link
oh man, there are so many more. i can't recommend the book highly enough.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 29 June 2017 19:05 (six years ago) link
(the ectoplasm stuff is only maybe 1% of the book, in case the idea of looking at images of mediums barfing doesn't appeal to everyone for some reason. it's fantastic)
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 29 June 2017 19:06 (six years ago) link
african-american characters in twin peaks:
1. jade2. this guy: https://files.slack.com/files-tmb/T07R0LRM2-F6183EA49-ff941f4249/idrdwo_1__360.gif
is that it?
― na (NA), Thursday, 29 June 2017 19:15 (six years ago) link
Is that a pic of Ernie Hudson? There were about 3 in the original series iirc, not great
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Thursday, 29 June 2017 19:20 (six years ago) link
You forgot Louie 'Birdsong' Budway (who will be showing up in the revival, apparently). And, ummmmmm...the Jumping Man?
― Duane Quarterdump (Old Lunch), Thursday, 29 June 2017 19:22 (six years ago) link
There was the internal affairs guy and I think major Briggs's CO? And a few randos in the pilot
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Thursday, 29 June 2017 19:23 (six years ago) link
the guy who introduced The Nine Inch Nails
― or at night (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 29 June 2017 19:24 (six years ago) link
Looking unlikely :( but we're gonna keep trying!
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 29 June 2017 19:28 (six years ago) link
"not all men" answer: cough cough, actually towns in Washington State that are close to the Canadian border would tend to be > 80% white, Lynch is simply being realistic
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 29 June 2017 19:29 (six years ago) link
That's true, but there is the question of the kinds of roles the few non-white actors get to play (I know you know this, just saying)
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Thursday, 29 June 2017 19:31 (six years ago) link
don't you "actually" at me, jim
― mh, Thursday, 29 June 2017 19:31 (six years ago) link
"Lynch is simply being realistic"
lol
― na (NA), Thursday, 29 June 2017 19:35 (six years ago) link
Little Jimmy Scott.
― Heavy Doors (jed_), Thursday, 29 June 2017 19:36 (six years ago) link
mans a realist what can you do
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Thursday, 29 June 2017 19:37 (six years ago) link
you know, famously realist director david lynch
anyway i'm only shit-stirring a little bit, i realized jade was the only prominent african-american character i could think of, jesse pointed out the guy from above the convenience store, but i was sure there had to be others i was forgetting. ernie hudson was a major oversight obviously.
― na (NA), Thursday, 29 June 2017 19:37 (six years ago) link
No it's definitely a convo worth having, which is why we have it itt every few weeks
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Thursday, 29 June 2017 19:38 (six years ago) link
fuck you
― na (NA), Thursday, 29 June 2017 19:39 (six years ago) link
jk
i don't remember race coming up in this thread before but who can keep track. i'll take your word for it
― na (NA), Thursday, 29 June 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
david lynch is an old white dude who liked reagan in the 80s because he thought he would cut red-tape and because he used to play a cowboy in movies; i don't think he knows/cares about controversies regarding representation in film and tv
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 29 June 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
Diane.gif
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Thursday, 29 June 2017 19:43 (six years ago) link
Was there any suggestion of Diane being a tough bitch before? Because I always imagined her as something like an acquiescent 50s secretary.
― Heavy Doors (jed_), Thursday, 29 June 2017 19:46 (six years ago) link
No, but everything we knew about her was filtered through Dale
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Thursday, 29 June 2017 19:47 (six years ago) link