Favourite Lynch moments

[Jeff]

Videos, quotes, memories, whatever.

I'll start with one I haven't seen mentioned here before:

The cowboy from Mulholland Drive.

[Searcher08]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMXjjHFz__A&NR=1

Where Laura Palmer tell Agent Cooper the name of the person who killed her... and a dwarf dances

Warning - this clip feels (to me ) like re-living an abduction experience

[barracuda]

Shai-Hulud - Dune
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld2DMsyy0go&feature=related
Kyle MacLachlan as Tony Curtis playing Paul Atreides. I love this whole travesty of a film, every incarnation. Lynch's Sparticus.


Henry's cornish game hen dinner, and the baby - Eraserhead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW0vvorOVg4
Lynch still will not reveal how the baby was created (sheep embryo head?), but Henry's line, "Ohh! You are sick!" as the little guy turns to pus and explodes, is priceless. This movie is among my favorite comedies ever, right up there with Some Like It Hot and His Girl Friday.

[IanEye]

The cowboy from Mulholland Drive.

The Cowboy has always reminded me of Mike Love of the Beach Boys.

"There's sometimes a buggy..."

Mike Love of course was in India with the Beatles.

I've been in this town so long that back in the city
I've been taken for lost and gone
And unknown for a long long time

Fell in love years ago
With an innocent girl
From the Spanish and Indian home
Home of the heroes and villains

Charles Manson had his dune buggy death squads.

Silencio...

[Et in Arcadia ego]

Videos, quotes, memories, whatever.

I'll start with one I haven't seen mentioned here before:

The cowboy from Mulholland Drive.

Aw, man..you beat me to the punch.

Here's a man who wants to get right to it..

[Et in Arcadia ego]

The Phantom

[Inland Empire]

[Jeff]

I didn't like Wild at Heart. Lynch seemed indulging in his temporary pop kitch appeal. But I did like this scene. (And laughed aloud inappropriately.)

A visit from Bobby Peru

[Et in Arcadia ego]

The Man himself with David Bowie and a serving of Garmonbozia.

[IanEye]

I was working at a record store when "Lost Highway" was in the theaters. People would come in and buy the soundtrack. They would return a few days later, disappointed that This Mortal Coil's version of "Song To The Siren" wasn't on the CD.

"Oh, it's a hidden track." I'd say.

Then, they would come back in even more frustrated than before.

"I can't find it."

"Well, I guess you didn't look hard enough." I'd say....

as Lynch has said on several occasions: “We’re all detectives.” This is a central metaphor for him, and he has made it clear he believes that both artists and their audience should approach any work of art as detectives--that is, beginning in a state of intuitive observation and trusting that a pattern will emerge. Patterns indicate significance, which naturally leads to interpretation.

[8bitagent]

My top fave Lynch moments:

1. Mystery Man at party with the phone call to himself in Los Highway

2. Fire Walk With Me Scene, with the floating Cooper and midget in the red room

3. Mulholland Drive, with the Denny's diner dialogue

4. Lady talking about continually hitting deers in The Straight Story

5. "In Heaven" theatre scene in Eraserhead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMXjjHFz__A&NR=1

Where Laura Palmer tell Agent Cooper the name of the person who killed her... and a dwarf dances

Warning - this clip feels (to me ) like re-living an abduction experience

Holy crap that was cryptic...on the level of that one scene in communion with the drarves/greys, or the recent gnome video

I didn't like Wild at Heart. Lynch seemed indulging in his temporary pop kitch appeal. But I did like this scene. (And laughed aloud inappropriately.)

A visit from Bobby Peru

It's probably one of his least talked about films, but there was this one scene in a motel room in Wild At Heart that I found positively creepy

[annie aronburg]

When I was 16 I would hang out at my friend's hippy mom's house and watch her hippy boyfriend's weird videos (on betamax! for audio fidelity) and listen to his Chrome albums.

One night we were lolling on the couch, watching Eraserhead and during the dinner scene

Henry Spencer: So I just, uh... I just cut them up like regular chickens?
Mr. X: Sure, just cut them up like regular chickens.

Hippy Mom burst into the room and threw a whole raw chicken on us.

Oh, how we screeeeeaaaaamed!

I love that film.

Twelve years later a boy made me a mix tape that had dialogue from the movie in between songs. Yes, he scored.

Did you know that the singer from TragicMulatto is the Log Lady's niece?

[IanEye]

Henry Spencer: So I just, uh... I just cut them up like regular chickens?
Mr. X: Sure, just cut them up like regular chickens.

Hippy Mom burst into the room and threw a whole raw chicken on us.

Oh, how we screeeeeaaaaamed!

I love that film.

Twelve years later a boy made me a mix tape that had dialoge from the movie in between songs. Yes, he scored.

Amon Tobin refers to David Lynch movies a number of times on Permutation. The song "Like Regular Chickens" contains a line of dialogue spoken in Eraserhead, while the title of the song "People Like Frank" is a line of dialogue from Blue Velvet. The song also samples a part of Angelo Badalamenti's score to that film.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_%28album%29

[Jeff]

Twelve years later a boy made me a mix tape that had dialoge from the movie in between songs. Yes, he scored.

Sounds like a mixed tape god. In the early 90s I would have taken his Learning Annex course.

I'm making my lunch!

[annie aronburg]

Twelve years later a boy made me a mix tape that had dialoge from the movie in between songs. Yes, he scored.

Sounds like a mixed tape god. In the early 90s I would have taken his Learning Annex course.

He was a mix tape god. As I recall the tape included tracks by Timothy Leary, Pakistani girl singers, Marjorie Cameron, Borbetomagus, the Master Musicians of Jajouka and this fun ditty.

Next time you guys quote me, please fix my typos....oh the shame.

[Jeff]

A couple from The Straight Story:

The Grabber

The deer