Items from David Lynch’s personal estate and archive sold for a total of over $4.5 million at a white-glove auction hosted Wednesday by Julien’s Auctions and Turner Classic Movies. The famed filmmaker died in January at the age of 78. Standout lots in the auctioned collection included Lynch’s director’s chair, …
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Items from David Lynch’s personal estate and archive sold for a total of over $4.5 million at a white-glove auction hosted Wednesday by Julien’s Auctions and Turner Classic Movies. The famed filmmaker died in January at the age of 78. Standout lots in the auctioned collection included Lynch’s director’s chair, …
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“I love the logic of dreams… Anything can happen and it makes sense.”—David Lynch The first thing I thought of were the bugs. If you’ve seen Blue Velvet, then you remember the opening — and whether you love or hate David Lynch’s 1986 masterpiece of curdled Americana, it’s not a …
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When it debuted in the spring of 1990, David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks was inarguably the strangest show to have ever been made for American television. It was, simultaneously, a gothic horror story, a murder mystery, a supernatural thriller, a throwback to 1950s soap operas and movie melodramas, …
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Not too long ago, Flying Lotus was at home in L.A., coming off an extended sojourn in David Lynch’s surrealist world, when inspiration struck. “I mean, what do you do when you’re just off a binge of Twin Peaks?” he says. For some people, the answer might be to pop …
Read More »'Futurama' and the TV Shows That Refuse to Die
Of course Futurama is back with a new season today, 10 years after the last episode aired. It is a show whose main character spent 1,000 years in cryogenic slumber, and its ensemble has defied death at least as often as the series has. You have to go back nearly …
Read More »The Weird Connection Between David Lynch and 'The Wizard of Oz'
David Lynch does not like talking about his movies. He’d prefer the work speak for itself, thank you very much. But in bending over backwards to avoid discussing what something might “mean,” or deflecting questions with humor and/or cryptic pronunciations, the Blue Velvet filmmaker occasionally drops a breadcrumb hint about …
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