His debut feature Eraserhead (1977) was better known to me in its poster form, adorning many a student wall alongside Betty Blue and Che Guevara, with students equally unfamiliar about each, in my experience. However, there seemed to be a disparity between those who said that they liked Lynch, and those who actually liked Lynch. Mulholland Drive in One Takeĭavid Lynch was a director that I knew I was supposed to like: an auteur whose work was unconventional, uncanny and surreal to the point which the term Lynchian was invented to represent it. With that being said, Take Two journeys back to Mulholland Drive. That’s a lot of people pretending they know what’s going on. The David Lynch resurgence is in full swing: TV audiences are in the throes of Twin Peaks fever again David Lynch: The Art Life performed well on the festival circuit whilst Mulholland Drive has been treated to a 4K restoration and re-release after being named BBC Culture’s Greatest Film of the 21st Century by BBC Culture. Welcome to Take Two, the series that’s big enough to hold up its hands and say “I was wrong.”įrom your first watch to your second, has a movie gone from marvelous to meh? Has an initial viewing ever left you cold, only to later warm the cockles of your heart? Have you ever been so stubborn, “anti-mainstream” and cantankerous that you’ve point-blank refused to admit that a certain film has any merit at all whilst everyone else claims it’s the cinematic second-coming? Then you’ve come to the right place.
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