David Lynch

by Barney, Richard A.

• ISBN13: 9781604732368
• ISBN10: 1604732369
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-30
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi

Summary

Few directors in the past three decades have produced movies more compelling, controversial, or confounding than David Lynch (b. 1946). And fewer still have been so reluctant to talk about what they do. In this collection, editor Richard A. Barney has chosen the rare interviews in which Lynch opens up to questions rather than deflecting them. Whether Lynch is talking about his earliest film shorts such as The Grandmother or the break-out surrealist feature Eraserhead, the hit TV series Twin Peaks or his Oscar-nominated The Elephant Man or Blue Velvet or his most recent experimental tours de force, Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire, he stresses the power of image and sound to communicate his vision.David Lynch: Interviews is the first survey of conversations with the director covering the broad spectrum of his artistic activities throughout his career, including filmmaking, painting, music production, and furniture design. It documents the evolution of Lynch’s role in discussing his movies, from his self-described pre-verbal stage” in the early years to his increasingly elaborate, though persistently elusive, articulations. It also registers the intense international interest in Lynch’s work, with interviews from French and Spanish sources translated here for the first time.

Author Biography

Richard A. Barney is associate professor of English at the University of Albany, State University of New York, and is the author of Plots of Enlightenment: Education and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century England.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
Chronology	p. xvii
Filmography	p. xxi
Eraserhead: Is There Life after Birth?	p. 3
Good Eraserhead: Indiana	p. 9
Director David Lynch-From Cult Film to Elephant Man	p. 19
You Can Have Any Colour So Long as It's Black	p. 22
Is There Life after Dune?	p. 29
Out to Lynch	p. 34
Blue Movie	p. 41
A Dark Lens on America	p. 49
David Lynch	p. 60
Interview with David Lynch	p. 106
An Interview with David Lynch	p. 125
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me: The Press Conference at Cannes 1992	p. 134
Naked Lynch	p. 145
Interview	p. 150
The World Reveals Itself	p. 163
Highway to Hell	p. 170
The Icon Profile: David Lynch	p. 180
The Road to Hell	p. 194
I Want a Dream When I Go to a Film	p. 200
David Lynch: A 180-Degree Turnaround	p. 213
Getting Lost Is Beautiful	p. 222
Mulholland Drive, Dreams, and Wrangling with the Hollywood Corral	p. 232
David Lynch and Laura Dean: Inland Empire	p. 246
Inland Empire, Transcendental Meditation, and the "Swim" of Ideas	p. 251
Index	p. 267
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