I'm just imagining David Lynch having Derrida's interview on the American attitude and the demand to elaborate so common in interviews on his mind when Lynch said "no." It's as if he was saying, 'I have no ready made discourse on Eraserhead. I made a film. If you want to see what I have to say about it, go watch it. I will not do your work for you or attempt to remake it in words on command.'
He's not explicitly unattractive and he absolutely oozes charisma. Definitely see the attraction, and I definitely think he was really cute when he was younger.
"Mulholland Drive" is my favorite film as well. However, I subscribe to the theory that it is about the "casting couch", and how Hollywood eats up and spits out actresses. But no interpretation of Lynch is ever wrong, which is wonderful. The man himself refuses to explain his films because he wants the audience to bring their own life experience to the act of watching his movies.
woah,,, I never thought of it as being about the "casting couch". I interpreted it as a dream or a sense of purgatory, and either way a very non-linear narrative
My only exposure to Inland Empire was through a very short clip in one of your other videos and it was enough for me to have a nightmare about it. So I'd definitely classify it as a cognitohazard
Watching this at 2am might’ve been a mistake because when you showed the screen cap for Inland Empire on the tier list I felt a shiver of terror crawl up my spine that I’ve never felt before so thanks for that
I can't find the review, but I remember reading one that said something like "Most Lynch films were a journey into strangeness, with an ambiguous and transformed return at the end, but with Inland Empire, he just aimed that wagon train out dead center of Lynchenstien, and the party was never heard from again."
I love inland empire but I think my take on it is an uncommon one I guess the rely short version is that I think Inland Empire is about the way we tell stories and the way those stories echo throughout time and get retold in new ways, and ultimately how they take on a reality of their own.
David Lynch seems more weird that he is because most of his work is still distinctly American. Yes even when he is poking fun at "Americana" and 50s culture it's still a familiar backframe of American Culture most viewers are familiar with but then get disoriented when he intentionally subverts basically all those American sensitives. But many other film makers make similarly surreal films without that aspect, some of which you've talked at length before but hey I am always for such a smart person like you to take a look at even more of these types of films which happen to be my favorite so I guess this is me saying: More of this please, thanks, love your channel!
My problem with Lost Highway was that I enjoyed it stylistically, sonically, had some really really striking images and some excellent moments. But while the dreamy moments in his films might not be super clear narratively, he's usually very very good at maintaining a congruent emotional throughline. I might not immediately get what's "happening" but I feel what's going on. With Lost Highway I never knew quite what to feel and therefore never really cared. That said, Patricia Arquette said Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss and we love that for her.
honestly thats how i felt on first watch, but the second time thru it clicked w me and i felt i understood what it was going for. wouldnt make my top 5 lynch movies but i still think its fantastic!
you HAD to put THE picture that terrified me the most: this part in Inland empire, I remember having seen it alone at 3 am almost 10 years ago, and this was the most terrifying experience I ever had (loved the movie, as a Game Designer, I really see it as a "movie game", there are so much things that are here to make the viewers actives in his different movies, love them) And again, thank you for your videos, it's a joy to hear you talk and develop your arguments !!!
i think it's wonderful in a way that theres a collection of poorly photoshopped human faces that haunt our nightmares forever (see also Jeff the killer image and ahenobarbus henocied, big trigger warning for that last one)
I'd ABSOLUTELY love an analysis of Mulholland Drive from you! Somehow I've made it to my mid-20's as a trans psych-thriller fan and have never seen anything by David Lynch, so I'm really enjoying the new world of an increasingly apparent blind-spot of mine you've pointed out!!
There's not a limitless supply of great things to discover, so only stumbling upon Lynch in my 30s was good timing, I feel. Mid 20s sounds rad also. If you're into a lot of media, the pacing really influences your reception. At some point, I started getting into stuff I previously wouldn't have considered, in terms of genre for example, because it was becoming harder to be amazed by films or music or art from areas I already knew well. I wish you luck with future discoveries.
Agree with most except for FWWM, which is a double s for Sheryl Lee's performance alone. Edit: I'd also argue that FWWM does congeal with Twin Peaks as a concept, considering that we only experience Laura's suffering very passively in the show to the extent that we forget that it's even there.
Okay, so I had no idea that David Lynch made a Disney movie, and I didn't know about the fact that one of the actors that starred in Lost Highway ended up being a murderer later on. Please do make an analysis video on Mulholland Drive. 🥺
I saw it for the first time a few weeks ago and it instantly became my new favorite movie. Didnt know a single thing about it going in and the genuinely well-done queer relationship in a film by an old white dude took me COMPLETELY by surprise. The first hour is so warm and cozy and it uses the last third to completely break your heart into a million pieces. I still couldn’t even tell you what all of it means on an analytical level but my soul just *felt* that shit. Big tears lmao
I read his book about transcendental meditation and how it’s helped him be a better artist, and I just love the guy even though I haven’t seen most of his work, which I’ve been working on that 🙃
If wisteria/unrecorded night ends up happening at Netflix then it may just be David fully unleashed and with a budget. Netflix is said to be very hands off with creators.
Yeah Netflix pumps out a lot of terrible content but they are pretty hands off and have allowed people like Scorsese, Kaufman or Baumbach to make what they want which is pretty cool.
I will always remember the diner scene in Mulholland Drive. The atmosphere is almost magical there. Everything is perfect. It has the weird, unexplained feeling of unknown.
Inland Empire was my first-ever introduction to David Lynch, it was showing at a local theater and a friend who's a Lynch fan but hadn't seen IE invited me to go without either of us knowing what we were getting into. I made it through almost the entire film until the scene with the two homeless women talking about Niko (idk if it's even possible to spoil IE but if you've seen the movie you know what I mean). I got up and left the theater because for some reason it shook me to my absolute core. I couldn't get myself to go back in and just stood outside until it finished. I've never in my life had a reaction to a film like that, and at first I honestly thought I hated it until I had time to talk about it with my friend and think over it. I decided to go home and watch the ending... then scour Reddit for theories... then find this video, and now I kinda wanna watch all of Lynch's movies. So in a roundabout way it made me a fan? Never wanna watch it again though. One time was enough.
I think that your takes are definitely solid. I'd put Eraserhead in SS tier but I also understand why it doesn't appeal to everyone as much as it appeals to me, and I do think that there is something to admire about his works that more seamlessly blend the surreal and the narrative. The only really spicy take I thought you had was ranking FWWM lower than the rest of Twin Peaks. I understand what you mean when you say it didn't gel for you with the world but for me it is such an incredible vision of that world. Like the horror of Twin Peaks was usually implied or lurking below the surface because they were limited by the format in what they could show. And Showing that horror in FWWM is so powerful. Also one of the most transcendent theater experiences of my life was seeing it at the Alamo Drafthouse a few years ago. The Pink Room scene in a theater with a fucking LOUD as FUCK soundsystem was just like an out of body experience.
I feel like Twin Peaks is much better if you go into it knowing it's like a parody of 80s American soaps and that it deliberately devolves into making less and less sense
Lost Highway is my favourite of Lynch's and the soundtrack is a big part of that. Bowie, Rammstein Marilyn Manson Lou Reed The Smashing Pumpkins And of course Badalamenti's score is marvelous too. I freakin love it's idea of an inner evil and trying to deal with that
I actually started getting into David's music lately, with "Bird of Flames" and "I'm Waiting Here" probably being my favorites. It's worth checking out, if you haven't.
Again, another fantastic video from May! Just brings me such joy hearing a super cool chickadee talk about THE David Lynch. Makes me feel like I belong to an exclusive club or something. May rocks socks! (a Mulholland Drive analysis video will be May's magnum opus...also, it will be the first one I watch about the film. Pop that 🍒 for me May!)
Lynch uses inner monologue directly from Dune because it's his own wacky way of staying true to the literary facet of the material... It's his only direct adaptation of something he wasn't inherently influenced by, a chance to experiment with internal thoughts as narration... Great film less the whole whitewashed Twin Peaks cast....
Ahhh!! Yes! I've been waiting for more Lynch content from you and this was so great. Tbh I agree with your placing for the most part, and I get what you're saying about Lost Highway but when she says 'you'll never have me' is too damn good for me to put it lower than an A. Also, I knew the jumpscare in Inland Empire was coming and it still got me, that movie is a trip.
I vividly remember, a show, David Lynch did about a bunch of people wearing rabbit masks and it was like a sitcom where there was a laugh track in the background, I don't remember where I saw it I just know that it exists. Could you talk about that? I don't remember it being particularly disturbing, but it was eerie for sure. Because the people in the rabbit masks would say random things but it seemed like a coherent story just out of order if you're going by what the rabbits were saying. I really like David Lynch, he really gets me looking at symbolism for a change instead of just taking a movie for what it is.
@@TheWinterGravethey were actually initially released as a webseries before being integrated into inland empire. the original webseries is up on youtube through david lynch's channel and reuploads
Oh, The Straight Story! I remember seeing that in cinemas a long time ago. Really enjoyed it, actually, despite it not being the kind of thing you'd expect a teen in the early 2000s to be enjoying. It should have made a lot more at the box office than it did.
This channel is one of the good things about the USA, I'll take it! This is great, I like David Lynch, Mulholland Drive is one of my favorite movies and Eraserhead is my biggest personal nightmare fuel, but I haven't seen all of his stuff so a tier list by May is fab.
I remember you bringing up that Mulholland drive was your favorite movie a long time ago and I’m glad to see you finally touch on it! Would love to see you do a full analysis some day as well possibly
I just want to say that I love your content. You bring me so much joy. This comment was so long I started over again...but long story short, thank you. You take the world away and make me feel passionate about movies again. Your voice is so important and needed and greatly appreciated.
10: Dune 9: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me 8: Wild At Heart 7: Lost Highway 6: Inland Empire 5: The Straight Story 4: Mulholland Drive 3: Blue Velvet 2: The Elephant Man 1: Eraserhead
I can safely say, without a shred of doubt, that Inland Empire is the only film to give me a stress headache-And I'm not one of those easily headache induce-able people either, but yeah, ow.
I acknowledge Fire Walk With Me as a good movie, but I realized that I have a hard time watching it because Laura’s last few hours make me painfully uncomfortable and sad. I don’t know, it’s like the movie made me feel like I was watching a drowning woman behind glass. You wanna bang on and break the glass and save her but you can’t.
Lost Highway, a film which I respect greatly, in many ways feels like a rough draft for the lightning in a bottle that Mulholland Drive wound up being. I love Patricia Arquette's interpretation of it though, and I love the idea of a character literally changing to someone else that he's rather be to escape his bleak existence (and as a mega fan of the HBO show Barry I think Bill Hader is low key trying something similar with the last season but I won't say anything else...) Also Michael Haneke TOTALLY stole the "couple receives a video recording of their own home" from Lost Highway for Cache. Cache is probably a better film but STILL.
This made me realise I hadn't seen as many David Lynch films as I thought...definitely gonna have to fix that immediately. I'm surprised you didn't rate Fire Walk With Me higher! To be fair, I haven't seen it since I was a teenager so maybe I'd feel different if I watched it now, but I found it so incredibly harrowing and affecting at the time. Do agree with Muholland Drive, what a fantastic film. You talking about semiotics also reminded me, I would recommend to everyone the video essay David Lynch: The Treachery of Language by What's so Great About That, I think its a great look at some of the things you touch on in this video.
Mulholland Drive was my first Lynch trip. O had watched The Elephant Man for school years before. I was not prepared mulholland drive blew my mind and remains one of my favorite movies.
I've seen ONE great piece of video art, that was a crumbling building in seafoam green tiles with all these people in business suits in different weird positions interacting with the scenery - a lot of standing on chairs. And I was just like, yeah, that's it. It was upsettingly long but that was part of it I guess.
YAY! I'm prepared to get angry at at least one placement on this tier list (probably Mulholland Drive. I'm VERY defensive of Mulholland Drive). EDIT: Now that I've seen the video, I'm quite pleased with where Mulholland Drive! I remember my BFF Sara brought it over to watch years ago when I was first getting into film seriously, and said, "there's no way you're going to understand this film." And somehow, I ended up understanding roughly 75-80% of it. Needless to say, Sara got mad at me. I told her that the only reason I seemed to get it was because I had watched Ingmar Bergman's "Persona" about a month prior, and there are some key similarities between those films.
It was really cool that you brought up David Foster Wallace’s writings on Lynch. He was also such an inspired creator, it makes sense that he was drawn to Lynch’s work. DFW would have loved The Return.
S - Lost Highway , Eraserhead , Mulholland Drive, Fire Walk With Me A The Elephant Man , the Straight Story, Blue Velvet B Wild at Heart C D Dune ????- Inland Empire (yeah, I don't even know where to rank that ever) As for Twin Peaks, it's a hard one to rank. S1 is Great, S2 has a lot of Good... but also a lot of crap... and then S3 is phenomenal. So it'a a real Mix
This is pretty close to how I feel. I think I might love Inland Empire but also I genuinely never want to watch it again. I have not actually seen The Straight Story, and I would probs put Elephant Man down a peg but other than that this is p. much my list too.
My mom once told me that Wild At Heart was one of her favorite movies and she also was really into Twin Peaks when it was airing on tv (I mean wasn't everyone)... Anyway my mom is pretty rad.
Allright. Let's hit the fuckin' road, we're givin' our neighbor a joy ride. Let's get on with it. Bye, Ben. Anyone, uh, want to go on a joy ride with us?
Thank you so much for everything you do, May! You're my favourite content creator and I'm always so happy when you upload a new video! Sx2 - Mulholland Drive, Wild at Heart, Fire Walk With Me, Twin Peaks the Return S - Twin Peaks A - Eraserhead B - Elephant Man, Lost Highway C - Blue Velvet, Dune ??? - Inland Empire And I've yet to see The Straight Story so 🤷
Yay!! I’m at home with nothing to do except curl up with my beautiful sleepy kitty and watch you talk about David Lynch (and I just finished rewatching Lost Highway, like, an hour ago). So bring it! ❤️
Okay-to your point about Lost Highway. Yes. It feels claustrophobically tight. I remember seeing it in the 90s and wondering why it felt that way, and deciding it was because the movie is about this guy who is trying to exert an impossible amount of control over his life-his wife, their past, their weird uncomfortable house (even their sex life looks uptight)-so he finally breaks, but he’s so tightly wound that he’s trying to somehow humpty-dumpy his memory, psyche, and life back together-so I thought it served the narrative. But I didn’t love it. Was Lynch working out his own obsession with control through this film? (I like it more now, probably because Lynch moved on from this phase-Mulholland Drive was everything I ever wanted from Lynch and so much more, with even more of the loose dreamy quality he used so effectively in his best earlier films--including Wild at Heart. That film f*cks (literally)).
FWWM was my first exposure to David Lynch, when I randomly caught it on HBO or something in the late 90s. It was an absolutely traumatizing imprinting experience and I love it dearly 💗
I have not seen A Straight Story but I've seen Maggie May Fish's video comparing it to Rambo and, though it was funded by Disney, I love it for dealing with that subject matter the right way and also for talking about guilt/conveying guilt so well
i watched inland empire, my first lynch movie, the other night, and yes the only way you could really describe it is by calling it an scp that's exactly what it is, and honestly all i want to do is watch it again
As someone who's only seen Twin Peaks (and Fire Walk with Me) I greatly enjoyed hearing you talk about the rest of his filmography. Definitely gonna check some of these out :O
S Tier: Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Fire Walk With Me, Twin Peaks Return A Tier: Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Probably Inland Empire but I've only made it all the way through once and it's very hard to rate anyway B Tier: Wild At Heart, The Elephant Man C Tier: D Tier: Dune Haven't Seen: The Straight Story
To me Lynch's films capture some elements of the trans experience that I've rarely felt in media not by trans creators. Obviously it's not intentional, but the surrealism and disassociation present in most of his works remind me of all the years I spent in the closet.
“eraserhead is my most spiritual film”
“elaborate”
“no”
i love his refusal to give any explanation to the audience 😂
I'm just imagining David Lynch having Derrida's interview on the American attitude and the demand to elaborate so common in interviews on his mind when Lynch said "no." It's as if he was saying, 'I have no ready made discourse on Eraserhead. I made a film. If you want to see what I have to say about it, go watch it. I will not do your work for you or attempt to remake it in words on command.'
I love how it used to be "Can you elaborate on that?", then it became "Elaborate on that" and now is "Elaborate"
LOL!!!
David Lynch be punching the air when he finds out that I'm watching this on my phone
let me be the first to say; 'Get real!' lol
swear it was a shot at winding refns' statements
GET REAL
Such a sadness
Ahh, the eraser head baby, a great palette cleanser after literally the most vile recorded content.
I feel I should be worried that this is actually relatable.
People are mean to the Eraserhead baby. They're just doing their best.
May confessing her "embarassing" ladyboner for Nic Cage like he wasnt peak dad-bod in Mandy. smh
Thank you
And as if he wasn't a splendid hunk in Birdy
i think may talking about nic cage just made me accept my deep rooted crush for him uh oh :/
He's not explicitly unattractive and he absolutely oozes charisma. Definitely see the attraction, and I definitely think he was really cute when he was younger.
every dad bod is peak dad bod 🏳️🌈
I feel like if David lynch never became a director he'd work on a farm
He was a carpenter.
i feel like he'd be the designated crazy beggar
David cage is just diogenes reborn
he's also all of our One Coworker That We Don't Talk About
Telling stories to the cows
"Mulholland Drive" is my favorite film as well. However, I subscribe to the theory that it is about the "casting couch", and how Hollywood eats up and spits out actresses. But no interpretation of Lynch is ever wrong, which is wonderful. The man himself refuses to explain his films because he wants the audience to bring their own life experience to the act of watching his movies.
He takes his Barthes seriously.
woah,,, I never thought of it as being about the "casting couch". I interpreted it as a dream or a sense of purgatory, and either way a very non-linear narrative
The way May just, casually and easily explains things in a way that’s so clear and understandable is just chefs kiss
i appreciate that she doesn't throw up a thesaurus onto the script unlike other analysists
what i got out of this video is that I want to see you talk about SCP's for an hour
What I got out of this was looking up what SCP was. Now, I'm curious...
My only exposure to Inland Empire was through a very short clip in one of your other videos and it was enough for me to have a nightmare about it. So I'd definitely classify it as a cognitohazard
I legit have a Hallway Phantom related nightmare about every 6 months.
But the ending is so uplifting
"Bruce Willis was a ghost all along?!" Well shit, thanks for spoiling Die Hard With A Vengeance.
If you didn’t get into a screaming match with a film bro about Blue Velvet, did you really go to film school?
more like a screaming match between us the students and our film theory professor
Watching this at 2am might’ve been a mistake because when you showed the screen cap for Inland Empire on the tier list I felt a shiver of terror crawl up my spine that I’ve never felt before so thanks for that
I can't find the review, but I remember reading one that said something like "Most Lynch films were a journey into strangeness, with an ambiguous and transformed return at the end, but with Inland Empire, he just aimed that wagon train out dead center of Lynchenstien, and the party was never heard from again."
I love inland empire but I think my take on it is an uncommon one
I guess the rely short version is that I think Inland Empire is about the way we tell stories and the way those stories echo throughout time and get retold in new ways, and ultimately how they take on a reality of their own.
David Lynch seems more weird that he is because most of his work is still distinctly American. Yes even when he is poking fun at "Americana" and 50s culture it's still a familiar backframe of American Culture most viewers are familiar with but then get disoriented when he intentionally subverts basically all those American sensitives.
But many other film makers make similarly surreal films without that aspect, some of which you've talked at length before but hey I am always for such a smart person like you to take a look at even more of these types of films which happen to be my favorite so I guess this is me saying: More of this please, thanks, love your channel!
"Industrial music was gonna eventually kinda get a little lame"
Why must you wound me so?
My problem with Lost Highway was that I enjoyed it stylistically, sonically, had some really really striking images and some excellent moments. But while the dreamy moments in his films might not be super clear narratively, he's usually very very good at maintaining a congruent emotional throughline. I might not immediately get what's "happening" but I feel what's going on. With Lost Highway I never knew quite what to feel and therefore never really cared. That said, Patricia Arquette said Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss and we love that for her.
honestly thats how i felt on first watch, but the second time thru it clicked w me and i felt i understood what it was going for. wouldnt make my top 5 lynch movies but i still think its fantastic!
Inland Empire is the greatest thing I've ever seen
Ever
pure surrealism from start to finish. the whole film feels like a bad dream you can only half remember
you HAD to put THE picture that terrified me the most: this part in Inland empire, I remember having seen it alone at 3 am almost 10 years ago, and this was the most terrifying experience I ever had (loved the movie, as a Game Designer, I really see it as a "movie game", there are so much things that are here to make the viewers actives in his different movies, love them)
And again, thank you for your videos, it's a joy to hear you talk and develop your arguments !!!
i think it's wonderful in a way that theres a collection of poorly photoshopped human faces that haunt our nightmares forever (see also Jeff the killer image and ahenobarbus henocied, big trigger warning for that last one)
I'm doing a big study of all of David Lynch's films for film studies so this literally could not have come at a better time thank you May
I'd ABSOLUTELY love an analysis of Mulholland Drive from you! Somehow I've made it to my mid-20's as a trans psych-thriller fan and have never seen anything by David Lynch, so I'm really enjoying the new world of an increasingly apparent blind-spot of mine you've pointed out!!
There's not a limitless supply of great things to discover, so only stumbling upon Lynch in my 30s was good timing, I feel. Mid 20s sounds rad also. If you're into a lot of media, the pacing really influences your reception. At some point, I started getting into stuff I previously wouldn't have considered, in terms of genre for example, because it was becoming harder to be amazed by films or music or art from areas I already knew well. I wish you luck with future discoveries.
Agree with most except for FWWM, which is a double s for Sheryl Lee's performance alone.
Edit: I'd also argue that FWWM does congeal with Twin Peaks as a concept, considering that we only experience Laura's suffering very passively in the show to the extent that we forget that it's even there.
Same.
Yeep.
David Lych has been saying "Trans Rights!" since 1989, people! That's longer than some of y'all have been alive!
Okay, so I had no idea that David Lynch made a Disney movie, and I didn't know about the fact that one of the actors that starred in Lost Highway ended up being a murderer later on. Please do make an analysis video on Mulholland Drive. 🥺
just watched mulholland drive for the first time yesterday, serendipity
one of us, one of us... ahem... great, isn't it?
Where is it available to watch?
I saw it for the first time a few weeks ago and it instantly became my new favorite movie. Didnt know a single thing about it going in and the genuinely well-done queer relationship in a film by an old white dude took me COMPLETELY by surprise. The first hour is so warm and cozy and it uses the last third to completely break your heart into a million pieces. I still couldn’t even tell you what all of it means on an analytical level but my soul just *felt* that shit. Big tears lmao
I'VE NEVER BEEN SO HAPPY TO NOT HAVE A FORCED FAMILY GET TOGETHER OVER A HOLIDAY I DON'T EVEN OBSERVE
I was wondering what you were going to do with Inland Empire and as a fan of bleak nonsense, I agree with where you put it.
I read his book about transcendental meditation and how it’s helped him be a better artist, and I just love the guy even though I haven’t seen most of his work, which I’ve been working on that 🙃
If wisteria/unrecorded night ends up happening at Netflix then it may just be David fully unleashed and with a budget. Netflix is said to be very hands off with creators.
Yeah Netflix pumps out a lot of terrible content but they are pretty hands off and have allowed people like Scorsese, Kaufman or Baumbach to make what they want which is pretty cool.
Inland Empire was like a scenic tour thru someones mental breakdown
That hair colour looks fantastic.
I will always remember the diner scene in Mulholland Drive. The atmosphere is almost magical there. Everything is perfect. It has the weird, unexplained feeling of unknown.
Inland Empire was my first-ever introduction to David Lynch, it was showing at a local theater and a friend who's a Lynch fan but hadn't seen IE invited me to go without either of us knowing what we were getting into. I made it through almost the entire film until the scene with the two homeless women talking about Niko (idk if it's even possible to spoil IE but if you've seen the movie you know what I mean). I got up and left the theater because for some reason it shook me to my absolute core. I couldn't get myself to go back in and just stood outside until it finished.
I've never in my life had a reaction to a film like that, and at first I honestly thought I hated it until I had time to talk about it with my friend and think over it. I decided to go home and watch the ending... then scour Reddit for theories... then find this video, and now I kinda wanna watch all of Lynch's movies. So in a roundabout way it made me a fan?
Never wanna watch it again though. One time was enough.
I think that your takes are definitely solid. I'd put Eraserhead in SS tier but I also understand why it doesn't appeal to everyone as much as it appeals to me, and I do think that there is something to admire about his works that more seamlessly blend the surreal and the narrative. The only really spicy take I thought you had was ranking FWWM lower than the rest of Twin Peaks. I understand what you mean when you say it didn't gel for you with the world but for me it is such an incredible vision of that world. Like the horror of Twin Peaks was usually implied or lurking below the surface because they were limited by the format in what they could show. And Showing that horror in FWWM is so powerful. Also one of the most transcendent theater experiences of my life was seeing it at the Alamo Drafthouse a few years ago. The Pink Room scene in a theater with a fucking LOUD as FUCK soundsystem was just like an out of body experience.
Take me with you to the next showing bro ❤
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I agree
Okay bestie now do John waters!
haha "Mullholland Drive" is about this eternal wlw problem "do i wanna be with her or do I wanna be her" ,one of my favorite movies also
The first time I watched What Did Jack Do I was high on oxy lmao I've never had a better time in my life.
I feel like Twin Peaks is much better if you go into it knowing it's like a parody of 80s American soaps and that it deliberately devolves into making less and less sense
Lost Highway is my favourite of Lynch's and the soundtrack is a big part of that.
Bowie,
Rammstein
Marilyn Manson
Lou Reed
The Smashing Pumpkins
And of course Badalamenti's score is marvelous too.
I freakin love it's idea of an inner evil and trying to deal with that
I actually started getting into David's music lately, with "Bird of Flames" and "I'm Waiting Here" probably being my favorites. It's worth checking out, if you haven't.
May + Lynch is a perfect combo
Discovering your channel has been a treat!!! I’m diggin it.
Again, another fantastic video from May! Just brings me such joy hearing a super cool chickadee talk about THE David Lynch. Makes me feel like I belong to an exclusive club or something. May rocks socks!
(a Mulholland Drive analysis video will be May's magnum opus...also, it will be the first one I watch about the film. Pop that 🍒 for me May!)
Getting in a shouting match in film school for David Lynch she just like me frfr
Lynch uses inner monologue directly from Dune because it's his own wacky way of staying true to the literary facet of the material... It's his only direct adaptation of something he wasn't inherently influenced by, a chance to experiment with internal thoughts as narration... Great film less the whole whitewashed Twin Peaks cast....
Twin Peaks didn’t exist yet.
Twin Peaks had the Dune cast, not the other way around.
youre 100% right about nick cage but he was at his hottest in raising arizona
Looking great May :)
Ahhh!! Yes! I've been waiting for more Lynch content from you and this was so great. Tbh I agree with your placing for the most part, and I get what you're saying about Lost Highway but when she says 'you'll never have me' is too damn good for me to put it lower than an A. Also, I knew the jumpscare in Inland Empire was coming and it still got me, that movie is a trip.
The experience of watching Inland Empire is basically you just wondering if you are trapped in a nightmare or not for 3 hours. Its great
I vividly remember, a show, David Lynch did about a bunch of people wearing rabbit masks and it was like a sitcom where there was a laugh track in the background, I don't remember where I saw it I just know that it exists. Could you talk about that? I don't remember it being particularly disturbing, but it was eerie for sure. Because the people in the rabbit masks would say random things but it seemed like a coherent story just out of order if you're going by what the rabbits were saying. I really like David Lynch, he really gets me looking at symbolism for a change instead of just taking a movie for what it is.
those rabbit scenes are actually from inland empire
the rabbit sitcom is in inland empire
@@TheWinterGravethey were actually initially released as a webseries before being integrated into inland empire. the original webseries is up on youtube through david lynch's channel and reuploads
Oh, The Straight Story! I remember seeing that in cinemas a long time ago. Really enjoyed it, actually, despite it not being the kind of thing you'd expect a teen in the early 2000s to be enjoying. It should have made a lot more at the box office than it did.
Please don't get rid of your amazing intro music... it floods my brain with serotonin I need it
This channel is one of the good things about the USA, I'll take it!
This is great, I like David Lynch, Mulholland Drive is one of my favorite movies and Eraserhead is my biggest personal nightmare fuel, but I haven't seen all of his stuff so a tier list by May is fab.
May's the best thing to come out of Texas since Richard Linklater.
I remember you bringing up that Mulholland drive was your favorite movie a long time ago and I’m glad to see you finally touch on it! Would love to see you do a full analysis some day as well possibly
first of all: I'm so happy to have so much May content in my life; second of all: how TF did u get ur inner eyeliner so freaking sharp????
I just want to say that I love your content. You bring me so much joy. This comment was so long I started over again...but long story short, thank you. You take the world away and make me feel passionate about movies again. Your voice is so important and needed and greatly appreciated.
10: Dune
9: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
8: Wild At Heart
7: Lost Highway
6: Inland Empire
5: The Straight Story
4: Mulholland Drive
3: Blue Velvet
2: The Elephant Man
1: Eraserhead
I can safely say, without a shred of doubt, that Inland Empire is the only film to give me a stress headache-And I'm not one of those easily headache induce-able people either, but yeah, ow.
I acknowledge Fire Walk With Me as a good movie, but I realized that I have a hard time watching it because Laura’s last few hours make me painfully uncomfortable and sad. I don’t know, it’s like the movie made me feel like I was watching a drowning woman behind glass. You wanna bang on and break the glass and save her but you can’t.
Nicolas Cage has *never* stopped being an American heartthrob!
My sistah -- I'm a 51 year old Gen X Lynch lover since when the early movies were fresh, and I gained so much through your amazing analysis. Mahalos!
Lost Highway, a film which I respect greatly, in many ways feels like a rough draft for the lightning in a bottle that Mulholland Drive wound up being. I love Patricia Arquette's interpretation of it though, and I love the idea of a character literally changing to someone else that he's rather be to escape his bleak existence (and as a mega fan of the HBO show Barry I think Bill Hader is low key trying something similar with the last season but I won't say anything else...)
Also Michael Haneke TOTALLY stole the "couple receives a video recording of their own home" from Lost Highway for Cache. Cache is probably a better film but STILL.
Your analysis is spot on , you’ve waited a long time to make this video and your discipline as a fan and critic definitely shows
This made me realise I hadn't seen as many David Lynch films as I thought...definitely gonna have to fix that immediately. I'm surprised you didn't rate Fire Walk With Me higher! To be fair, I haven't seen it since I was a teenager so maybe I'd feel different if I watched it now, but I found it so incredibly harrowing and affecting at the time. Do agree with Muholland Drive, what a fantastic film. You talking about semiotics also reminded me, I would recommend to everyone the video essay David Lynch: The Treachery of Language by What's so Great About That, I think its a great look at some of the things you touch on in this video.
Now. Make a Lars Von Trier tier list. I bid you!
I would love to see you do this same type of thing for David Cronenberg movies.
Mulholland Drive was my first Lynch trip. O had watched The Elephant Man for school years before. I was not prepared mulholland drive blew my mind and remains one of my favorite movies.
love david lynch, would love see his works sometime
I've seen ONE great piece of video art, that was a crumbling building in seafoam green tiles with all these people in business suits in different weird positions interacting with the scenery - a lot of standing on chairs. And I was just like, yeah, that's it. It was upsettingly long but that was part of it I guess.
You have no idea how badly I needed a dose of May today 🖤🙌 Bring on the list!!!
YAY! I'm prepared to get angry at at least one placement on this tier list (probably Mulholland Drive. I'm VERY defensive of Mulholland Drive).
EDIT: Now that I've seen the video, I'm quite pleased with where Mulholland Drive! I remember my BFF Sara brought it over to watch years ago when I was first getting into film seriously, and said, "there's no way you're going to understand this film." And somehow, I ended up understanding roughly 75-80% of it. Needless to say, Sara got mad at me. I told her that the only reason I seemed to get it was because I had watched Ingmar Bergman's "Persona" about a month prior, and there are some key similarities between those films.
It was really cool that you brought up David Foster Wallace’s writings on Lynch. He was also such an inspired creator, it makes sense that he was drawn to Lynch’s work. DFW would have loved The Return.
S - Lost Highway , Eraserhead , Mulholland Drive, Fire Walk With Me
A The Elephant Man , the Straight Story, Blue Velvet
B Wild at Heart
C
D Dune
????- Inland Empire (yeah, I don't even know where to rank that ever)
As for Twin Peaks, it's a hard one to rank. S1 is Great, S2 has a lot of Good... but also a lot of crap... and then S3 is phenomenal. So it'a a real Mix
This is pretty close to how I feel. I think I might love Inland Empire but also I genuinely never want to watch it again. I have not actually seen The Straight Story, and I would probs put Elephant Man down a peg but other than that this is p. much my list too.
My mom once told me that Wild At Heart was one of her favorite movies and she also was really into Twin Peaks when it was airing on tv (I mean wasn't everyone)... Anyway my mom is pretty rad.
Hey much love for the Oak Cliff FF poster, the obvious background detail that no one else is going to mention.
Allright. Let's hit the fuckin' road, we're givin' our neighbor a joy ride. Let's get on with it. Bye, Ben. Anyone, uh, want to go on a joy ride with us?
David has said that twin peaks is explicitly NOT a parody of soap operas. it IS a soap opera, it's a tribute to soap operas
Thank you so much for everything you do, May! You're my favourite content creator and I'm always so happy when you upload a new video!
Sx2 - Mulholland Drive, Wild at Heart, Fire Walk With Me, Twin Peaks the Return
S - Twin Peaks
A - Eraserhead
B - Elephant Man, Lost Highway
C - Blue Velvet, Dune
??? - Inland Empire
And I've yet to see The Straight Story so 🤷
I love your hair AND I'm so excited to get back into your videos, and I am excited to learn about David Lynch.
Yay!! I’m at home with nothing to do except curl up with my beautiful sleepy kitty and watch you talk about David Lynch (and I just finished rewatching Lost Highway, like, an hour ago). So bring it! ❤️
Okay-to your point about Lost Highway. Yes. It feels claustrophobically tight. I remember seeing it in the 90s and wondering why it felt that way, and deciding it was because the movie is about this guy who is trying to exert an impossible amount of control over his life-his wife, their past, their weird uncomfortable house (even their sex life looks uptight)-so he finally breaks, but he’s so tightly wound that he’s trying to somehow humpty-dumpy his memory, psyche, and life back together-so I thought it served the narrative. But I didn’t love it. Was Lynch working out his own obsession with control through this film? (I like it more now, probably because Lynch moved on from this phase-Mulholland Drive was everything I ever wanted from Lynch and so much more, with even more of the loose dreamy quality he used so effectively in his best earlier films--including Wild at Heart. That film f*cks (literally)).
Actually getting the camera for inland empire right was the coolest moment I've seen in a youtube video in years 🎉
FWWM was my first exposure to David Lynch, when I randomly caught it on HBO or something in the late 90s. It was an absolutely traumatizing imprinting experience and I love it dearly 💗
Just got the notification and I'm liking this already.
I have not seen A Straight Story but I've seen Maggie May Fish's video comparing it to Rambo and, though it was funded by Disney, I love it for dealing with that subject matter the right way and also for talking about guilt/conveying guilt so well
You have to be my favorite channel on this platform. You’re simply fantastic.
I'm a fan on Nyx Fears and I'm a fan of David Lynch, so how did I *ever* miss this video!!!???
i watched inland empire, my first lynch movie, the other night, and yes the only way you could really describe it is by calling it an scp that's exactly what it is, and honestly all i want to do is watch it again
Now i need an inland empire: explained video
Greatly tiered! I'm am now going to go down the dfw talks about David Lynch - rabbit hole, thx for the tip
This is basically everything I ever wanted out of a UA-cam video about David Lynch.
I haven't been on the channel in a bit but that hair colour is so good
May, I really want to know what you thought of "What did Jack Do?"
SSS tier obvs
May, you look fantastic. The red hair, the makeup, everything. *chef's kiss*
As someone who's only seen Twin Peaks (and Fire Walk with Me) I greatly enjoyed hearing you talk about the rest of his filmography. Definitely gonna check some of these out :O
S Tier: Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Fire Walk With Me, Twin Peaks Return
A Tier: Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Probably Inland Empire but I've only made it all the way through once and it's very hard to rate anyway
B Tier: Wild At Heart, The Elephant Man
C Tier:
D Tier: Dune
Haven't Seen: The Straight Story
As another huge fan of Mulholland Drive, I'd totally watch you do a longer analysis video on it
You're so amazing, I can't even believe there's another video. We don't deserve this.
To me Lynch's films capture some elements of the trans experience that I've rarely felt in media not by trans creators. Obviously it's not intentional, but the surrealism and disassociation present in most of his works remind me of all the years I spent in the closet.
May, your eyeliner looks FANTASTIC in this one!