#lost highway

[showyoumyfavoriteobsession]

David Lynch + the road at night

Blue Velvet (1986) Wild at Heart (1990) Lost Highway (1997) Mulholland Drive (2001) Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)

[isabelleadjani]

PATRICIA ARQUETTE as Alice Wakefield LOST HIGHWAY dir. David Lynch, 1997

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

We will miss you, David.

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[obsessedbyneon]

1946 - 2025 🥀 David Lynch. Wow, what a blow to our world. I can hardly panthom it. My lack of words is how I experienced watching his work. But I think I understand his stance on society and surrealism and I embrace it. We can only hope others can follow in his footsteps 😞 R. I. P.

David Lynch photographed by Max Aguilera-Hellweg for Connoisseur Magazine (1989) made a bit more colorful.

[mannyblacque]

Criterion has made the documentary DAVID LYNCH: THE ART LIFE available to watch ad free with no subscription or sign up required.

Just click and watch.

According to this source, it will be available to watch for free only until the end of January 2025.

[texaschainsawmascara]

[sinatraaloof]

Lost Highway (1997) dr.: David Lynch.

[annoyingthemesong]

RIP LYNCH

No small loss. He was of a handful of surviving masters who completely redefined the medium, and was responsible for some of the greatest images ever put to screen. And one of the very few filmmakers who were able to create art - completely without compromise - at the absolute highest level. I can barely imagine a filmmaker starting a career like his today. There are no inheritors.

A man of obsession, latent desires, dreams and fantasies. As he started his career, his films tended toward polarization. Toward the end of his life he had virtually no detractors. He was beloved.

[lisamarie-vee]

[velvetvexations]

I may crave explanation and analysis but I've always respected Lynch's position that it's in the audience's hands and I've never felt like his work was unsatisfying in what it didn't explain, unlike, for example, Petscop. Take this quote of his:

It needs to be a certain way, and it's not to confound, it's to feel the mystery. Mystery is good, confusion is bad, and there's a big difference between the two. I don't like talking about things too much because, unless you're a poet, when you talk about it, a big thing becomes smaller. 

And this'n:

I think people know what Mulholland Drive is to them, but they don't trust it. They want to have someone else tell them. That's the beautiful thing, to figure things out as a detective. Telling them robs them of the joy of thinking it through and feeling it through and coming to a conclusion.

Like, yes, if you watch Eraserhead, initially you might not be sure what he was communicating, but when you let it sit and really think about it, you can arrive at an answer for yourself. It's not just random bullshit happening for no reason.

What I really dislike is people saying his faith in the audience means his films have zero meaning beyond applicability and individual interpretation. But here's the rest of that first quote:

But the clues are all there for a correct interpretation, and I keep saying that, in a lot of ways, it's a straight forward story. There are only a few things that are a hair off.

All his works have artistic messages baked into them! He wants the audience to arrive at their own conclusions but that doesn't mean he didn't have one in mind himself. That would be silly. But there's a kinna mora superiority in exaggerating Lynch's ideal into "nothing means anything" like you're an art fascist if you have any interest at all in what the artist himself had in mind.

[helgean]

So my tribute painting to David Lynch was mandatory. His influence on my tastes and visions is profound. It was a pleasure to turn on the other side of my brain for a while - one in contrast to fantasy, sombre, otherworldly and ethereal, responsible for all things surreal, avant-garde, bizarre and tied to the psyche.

Meanwhile, a good damn cup of coffee to my fellow Scorpio rising, the Master on his last highway to heaven where everything is fine. See you in 25 light years.

Tribute prints strictly limited to 8. Link in bio

[urdeadsweetheart]

I have been dying for him to come over

[isabelleadjani]

PATRICIA ARQUETTE as Renee Madison LOST HIGHWAY dir. David Lynch, 1997

[music-addiction-disorder]

LOST HIGHWAY (1997) dir. DAVID LYNCH

[mentiranordica]

RIP David Lynch (1946-2025)

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