David Lynch Exposed the Rot at the Heart of American Culture
Lynch’s films and TV series reflected the dark, ominous, often bizarre underbelly of American culture – one increasingly out of the shadows today.
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David Lynch’s Dune: An Unintelligible Chaos of Names, Faces, Stilted Dialogue
Bruce Crouchet deems "Dune" a debacle, criticizing its pacing, adaptation, and score, resulting in a film that fails to capture the novel's essence.
The Straight Story (1999) | Review by Stanley Kauffmann
Anyone ignorant of Lynch who sees The Straight Story will need an extra mite of patience to allow its beauty to unfold; others will…
Dune Is Slow Going but Apt to Stick in the Mind
In the following review, Wilmington assesses Lynch's use of dark, obsessive, and bizarre visual imagery in Dune, noting that the film as a whole…
Interview with David Lynch, Director of “Dune”
The filmmaker who tamed "The Elephant Man" undertakes the grandest vision of them all—the realization on the screen of the epic universe created by…
Dune (1984) | Review by Pauline Kael
Lynch doesn’t bring a fresh conception to the material; he doesn’t make the story his own. Rather, he tries to apply his talents to…
Eraserhead (1977) – Review by Russ Island
With his film Eraserhead, David Lynch has created what can only be called a surrealistic masterpiece. Uncompromising in style, this black-and-white film is not…
David Lynch’s the Elephant Man – Review by Bruce Kawin [Film Quarterly]
Not since Shakespeare called for “a muse of fire” in Henry V and Olivier provided the light of an arc-rod projector has there been…
The Elephant Man (1980) – Review by Pauline Kael
The Elephant Man is a very pleasurable surprise. Though I had seen Eraserhead, which is the only other feature directed by David Lynch, and…
Wild at Heart (1990) – Review by Armond White
Some people want to call this art in the postmodern age, but no matter how inflated with esteem Lynch becomes, his art isn’t so…
Wild at Heart (1990) – Review by Peter Travers
Imagine The Wizard of Oz with an oversexed witch, gun-toting Munchkins. and love ballads from Elvis Presley, and you’ll get some idea of this…
Blue Velvet (1986) – Review by Tracy Biga [Film Quarterly]
Much of the humor in David Lynch’s reworked fifties crime thriller/horror/gothic film Blue Velvet comes from mundane statements which, when filtered by his personal…
Blue Velvet (1986) – Review by Pauline Kael
When you come out of the theatre after seeing David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, you certainly know that you've seen something. You wouldn’t mistake frames…