Eraserhead

[urgeok]

you wont see free shipping offered in canada ..

the postal rates are a crime up here.

when i was selling on ebay - it was actually cheaper for me to send a CD to california than right across the street from my house - no shit.

[urgeok]

ps ..

i've always loved eraserhead ...

discovered this one years and years ago ...

i even have the soundtrack on vinyl :D

[filmmaker2]

I used to have the soundtrack on vinyl, but it became part of someone else's collection...I remember someone coming over and hearing it playing in the other room and saying, "What is that noise?????" and I explained I was listening to a record. They looked totally confused, trying to imagine that anyone would put sounds like that on a record...

When I want some David Lynch, I usually go straight to the Eraserhead...his other films are okay, I liked Blue Velvet and a couple of others, but for the most part they are dilutions of Eraserhead's main ingredient.

[Elvis_Christ]

Originally posted by filmmaker2
When I want some David Lynch, I usually go straight to the Eraserhead...his other films are okay, I liked Blue Velvet and a couple of others, but for the most part they are dilutions of Eraserhead's main ingredient.

I'd have to agree with you on that one. Eraserhead is where its at for Lynch and Blue Velvet would be a close second and I like Wild At Heart. I lost interest in his work after that.

[urgeok]

yeah i LOVE wild at heart ...

eraserhead, wild at heart, blue velvet..

i still liked lost highway but it didnt have the punch these other films have ... at some point he just went from weird - to forced weird.

[Elvis_Christ]

Originally posted by urgeok
i still liked lost highway but it didnt have the punch these other films have ... at some point he just went from weird - to forced weird.

Yeh totally, those flicks did have punch. They were quite reinventive of genre conventions. Eraserhead took the weirder noir films like Samuel Fuller's Shock Corridor and crossed it with trashy 50/60's sci-fi and Glen or Glenda "am I this fucked up" paranoia. He explored the noir shit further with Blue Velvet and made the menacing bad guys meaner by showing the darker/deviant side of these characters that was only hinted at in their original incarnations.
Wild at Heart is perhaps his most influential work because it was the blue print of the 90s reinvention of the road movie. You can see its mark left in The Doom Generation (definatley pushed to extremes in subject matter but you can see the influence) and comparing it to Natural Born Killers is just a given especially if you read the original script.
I think somehow along the way he forgot the subtlety of his weird spin on charaterisation and cinematography that made these three films so good.
Shit he's still more interesting than 99.9% of the asshole hacks working in mainstream Hollywood cinema. Mr Lynch will more than likely kick our asses with an amazing flick sooner or later cause I'm sure he's got a bunch of tricks up his sleeve. Hopefully he hasn't joined the graveyard of director's that used to be amazing but became infected with the auteur complex and bludgeon their work with self indulgence.

[PR3SSUR3]

One suspects Lynch might have been having us on at that stage in his career, in an Octopus's Garden type of way.

[urgeok]

i forgot ...

unlike the rest of the world ... i actually enjoyed Dune as well :)

[slasherman]

Originally posted by urgeok
i forgot ...

unlike the rest of the world ... i actually enjoyed Dune as well :)

Dune is much better

[filmmaker2]

Heck, I liked Dune too! I had to see it eight times to start liking it, but after that it was smooth sailing.