It wasn't "one" of his favourites but his absolute Favourite Film. Lynch said that Kubrick took his friends to the cinema telling them he's gonna show them his favourite film. The Shining's sound design was heavily inspired by Eraserhead.
@@LearningaboutMovies He probably found it hilarious that a film like that was even made. But being serious, Kubrick appreciated the inspiration the works of others could bring and he praised that. He actually admired things like "white men can't jump" but nobody mentions that often. It means nothing much but the fact that he probably saw a particular shot that he liked a lot and wanted to try a similar thing, or he found something well crafted. In the case of "eraserhead" probably has to do with certain images and with the way it affects through the "background" sources, the subliminal aspect in which translates old sitcoms into that current time. I have no doubt Kubrick could appreciate that since his films have a key element in subliminal messages and crafting that which the subconscious mind will receive without being noticed by the awareness of the audience. The only reason that strikes as "meaningful" beyond that, it's because Lynch is bloated beyond his merits and in combination, if people consider him a genius and someone like Kubrick admired one of his films, then he must be it without question. Yet nobody cares if Kubrick liked "modern romance" or "white men can't jump", because it doesn't attach to a bloated figure they need to justify. I mean... after all, Kubrick was brilliant and somehow he had to look down on something to find inspiration about how to describe a swamp. You go look into a swamp to achieve that.
Because there was no high caliber movie than that pushover movie to be scary. This movie hurt my brain a little and I almost got sleepy when about to end realising the movie doenst even tell a story.
Eraserhead, to me, has alsways looked like the literalization of the fear that the protagonists of a silent film must deal with, when, out of the blue, sound arrives, as if Eraserhead were a corrupted silent film, corrupted by sounds ( the 'baby''s cry, characters that aren'used to talk and are afraid to do it, so they make long pauses between lines of dialogue and, consequently, the dialogue is sparse and fragmentary) and turned into a hellish suburban, industrial (Modern Times) nightmare. Not to mention that 'the baby', i.e. the 'soundtrack', comes out of Henry's mouth.
It’s crazy how you mention that. I just watched this movie for the first time and my first thought was he reminds me of Charlie Chaplin in the beginning when he is just walking around. My second thought was this movie would have been a comeback type movie for the actor Charlie Chaplin if he was in it. Kinda like how when comedy actors do “serious” roles later in their career . I know he died the year it came out ( and too old) but that would have been cool . Especially since it would totally confirm your take on the movie.
@@cullmnt what's also funny (in a way for a Gen X-er like myself), that now 1977 is about half-way between 2023 and 1927, or around the time 'talkies' began ... history flies by fast, trust me
When my wife and i were about to become parents we watched 3 movies focused on children…Monster’s Inc, Good Morning (Ozu), and Eraserhead. It was both of our first time seeing Eraserhead and we loved it. When we were in the hospital with our newborn every time he made noise in the middle of the night we just laughed because it sounded like the baby
that's is a fascinating collection of movies to watch. When my wife was in the hospital with our last one, I remember watching Kind Heart and Coronets, and Knute Rockne: American Hero (or whatever the one is with Ronald Reagan). Yes, I was watching TCM.
My first baby was born 6 weeks ago. I found this movie on the forefront of my mind. I rewatched about 2 weeks ago and it made sense to me in a way it never had before. Then the sad news yesterday, marking the first time I’ve ever been busted up about a celebrity death soooooo David Lynch marathon this weekend!! RIP you beautiful man.
Eraserhead is one of the oddest movies I have ever watched. It is almost a silent movie with little dialogue and mostly driven by the amazing sound effects.
I'm a huge David Lynch fan watched everything from him and loved all of it but to me nothing tops Eraserhead, it's perfection, Kubrick loved it as well. Babies are generally portrayed as cute/wholesome in films and in this a grotesque alien further alienating the connection between our protagonist and his child. When he finally manages to seduce the neighbor but fails to "close the deal" the child mocks him and is seen as the reason he can't enjoy the full freedom of bachlerhood. I had an explanation to the weird fantasy elements when i first watched Eraserhead but now they are lost to me, time for a rewatch!
Did he really stay civil tho by the end? Or perhaps you mean for as long as he did. - Yet of course I think no one could put up with that existence forever, even if/as a dream it represents what it felt like to him. He did end up killing the “baby” and embracing death (where everything’s “fine”)
I like the comment you made regarding the man with the levers and the anti-existentialist message of the film, that the protagonist is not really free, is trapped and is not really living his own life because of forces beyond his control. Also, I would be really curious to hear your take on The Holy Mountain.
have not seen that but intended to after watching (a few years ago) Jodorowsky's Dune. Probably will push up watching it to this next month on this rec. Looks ... interesting.
Eraserhead was my first movie of not understanding anything at all and the same time enjoying every bit of it. With many reviews, it makes more sense but Lynch stated no one has reached the exact meaning but only partially. Truly a fascinating audiovisual experience!!!
Hi Dr. Josh Matthews, long time watcher first time commenter and so glad you decided to cover this film. It is one of my all time favorites, I feel that the level of abstraction that it goes into allows for plenty of different interpretations to be drawn from viewing. I had never even considered your theory about this movie's relationship with the formulaic TV sitcom. I fully agree with your point that this movie is all about insecurity, and for me specifically I find it to be about existential dread. It is the outside looking in and reminds me of a bad psychedelic trip, a nightmare, dysphoria. A profoundly deep level of discomfort that is innately part of the human experience and David Lynch manages to capture it in a way like no other. Great video, keep it up man!
The continuous buzzing sounds remind me of Japanese summer - you live here long enough, you get used to the cicadas screaming non-stop, sounds EXACTLY like the sound in the movie. Also when Harry's head is lopped off and taken away by the kid to the factory, where his brain/head is then made into pencil erasers, THIS exact moment makes him 'Eraserhead'...
I watched "Beau is Afraid" a couple of weeks ago, and then yesterday I watched "Eraserhead". Not that they can be compared toe to toe, but it's notable that Ari Aster took some sips from that fountain, specially the "nerdy disturbed dude in a crazy surreal world" choice of protagonist.
Lynch adding that dust mist behind his head is so inspired...watching the film now I see a connection to season 3 of Twin Peaks. Radiation, twin peaks, and that steamer.
I agree 110% about your hypothesis regarding the most general meaning being an expression of deep insecurity in an individual. It always resonated with me on this level. And yes on other levels it can be more surface or circumstantial about fear of fatherhood etc, but to me the baby was a manifestation of his deepest insecurities and anxieties, which made the climax of the film sooo uplifting when he turns to face them as they get bigger and bigger after he cuts open the bandages. Truly Lynch’s most spiritual film. RIP 😢
Even the ending scene when the dome ruptures and the man with the levers struggles to keep control. After confronting his deepest layers he overcomes his ego completely, reaches a sort of ego death and is finally at peace. My opinion of course.
The second time I watched the movie it didn't seem so confusing, it just wasn't very obvious whether it was showing a dream or the "reality" (if it can be called that). I noticed that in the beginning there was a floor design of the black lodge.
I don’t understand anything in the film , but I have to accepted that images and soundscapes of this film is absolutely great. It’s very “Lynchian” style 😂😂
@@carlramos9445I disagree with myself all the time. But I agree with your original comment. At least today I do, tomorrow I’ll come back to tell you how much it sucked.
It's just a creepfest. I've lived in a fairly desolate, industrial part of Houston and the whole movie gives you that sense of emptiness and desperation you get walking around Isolated oil refineries and industrial parks.
my writeup on Mulholland is not favorable. I saw it in a Philip K Dick vein -- one of my favorite writers -- and in that light it does not compare. it's on letterboxd.
I feel like the movie is showing one of the possible outcomes of an unwanted pregnancy. The alien baby may be the way some people see or feel about a baby they aren't prepared to have. The awkward scene when the girl's mother pushes him about whether or not they had intercourse made me think there was emphasis being put on how you get pregnant. Basically saying they had sex and the result was a baby so they have to get married and be parents now. I can actually see both sides of the abortion debate going on so I guess it's really open to interpretation. Also, that man-made chicken is terrifying considering the fact that they are growing meat in labs.
This is my favorite Lynch film. I saw it on the big screen, but this was not my first watching. The projectionist was hip as to how important the industrial sounds are in the movie, so the sound was cranked way up, a bit too much, and I can say that on the big screen the details were even more impressive.
I love me some Lynch.. I remember as a child my father introducing me to adult horror and science fiction books, all the classics and as I got older I became a lover of film and returned the favour introducing him to films he would never see on tv, I can honestly say this was the only film that he literally said wtf was that? I like the b&w and the creepy industrial sound mix, it's very much a fever dream to me, not for everyone but a classic nevertheless.
I took it as every weird thing we saw was his feelings or anxieties visualized. So yes he had a baby but it was his feelings about it visualized. Not a real monster but we see it as one cause that’s how he and his girlfriend felt about it. And I took the man in the planet as being the same as the woman in the radiator (his internal world visualized…controlled by the man in his head and persuaded by the woman). I don’t understand what the little thing in the cabinet was though.
Life is indeed absurd viewed through the prism of certain death. So to deal with this for me Lynch seems to be saying "use humour and surrealism and absurdism" and that's fine by me. I dug this movie.
I've heard that this is a metaphor for parenthood (especially fatherhood) and how overwhelming it can be. Well, yes, if your baby looks like a bald calf's head!
David Lynch claims he just pulled the thoughts out of nowhere for the movie and just made it for what it was. I don’t see it that way! It’s a story about an abandoned industrial town in present-day Pennsylvania. But in an alternate universe! The Russians or Japanese fulfilled our fears about the Cold War and dropped nuclear bombs on the United States in the 1950s. Most people were killed, technology became at a standstill, and those that survived had all kinds of emotional issues. Hence the strange behavior of all the characters in the movie! And of course, the baby!
Lynch described how all will bring their own associations and interpretations to the movie, which of course doesn’t negate his own intentions or mean that it means nothing 😏 I think virtually all Americans who don’t like it probably don’t have deep film history experience. I haven’t seen or read Lynch describing influences (he’s not unique in this)😉 but he had to be aware of earlier Euro surrealist/expressionist movies like M, Un Chien Andalou, Les Enfants Terrible, Crime & Punishment - I mean how similar are Lorre and Nance?❤ Kafka, 1984, Freaks, … very many references.
I remember watching Mullholland Dr in my teens and remember disliking it and it put me off watching any of the other David Lynch movies. Perhaps Blue Velvet would be a better reintroduction to Lynch than Eraserhead? It does look interesting Eraserhead head though
not sure. I always recommend Elephant Man and Straight Story to ordinary moviegoers/casual viewers. Both likable and not too weird, yet Lynchian. I did not review Mulholland favorably (look up my writeup on letterboxd), but do not tell anybody! (many get mad by such views).
@@LearningaboutMovies Oh yes I have seen elephant man, I forgot that was a Lynch film that's quite good. I agree with some of the things you say in your Mullholland Dr review. From my observations, the movie is about the lies we tell ourselves and the absurdities we conjure up in our heads as a method to rationalise and deal with failure and hardships we may suffer in life, in the case of Mullholland Dr, the failures an actress may suffer in pursuit of a Hollywood career- and how these kinds of people deal with it. Like yourself, I can't really connect these kinds of themes to myself, and the message I think it tries to signal to its viewers, or at least the one I got, doesn't really resonate with me at all. Movies that deal with more important and bigger issues like existentialism, the nature of man, spirituality, political and social critiques are things that are more my taste.
@@LearningaboutMovies I 10000000000%agree with you, Munholland drive have such a cult and standard peoples ho go to cinema think that is Lord of the rings Gladiator, Psycho,, Shawshank redemption and movies like that, Munholland drive is for us ho seen almost all Fellini, Bergman, Kurusawa, Billy Wilder, Wiliam Willer, David Lean, Alfred Hitchcock, Joseph Mankiewicz, Altman, Lumet, Leone, Copolla, Fincher, Scott, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, Cohen brothers, Del Toro, Inarritu, Cauron, Tarkovski and so many others great directors, Munholland drive, Vertigo and Fight club are masteripices but in time of this movies critic are awful to this movies only Munholland drive is by critic do well and Linch is nominated for best director at oscars, today this movies are golden standard for movies, same with Tarkovski Mirror or Tokyo story
I thought I was one of the only 37 people on the planet to have seen this movie at an "art movie" house in the early 80s. How about covering Sorcerer, or the original, Wages of Fear, if you thought one of them was great? If you didn't share such opinion, well... never mind.
I tried to watch it but it’s not for me. I appreciate your interpretation of this movie because I was more disturbed than intrigued by the movie. This was a weird movie for me to dip my toe into the idea of artistic expression through film. Or at least films outside of the normal canned cinema where everything is right in front of your face.
Saw it first run in 1977 at the Cinema Village in Manhattan. I was 17. After decades working in the business as a union cam asst, then independent shooter, editor (Emmy nom, DuPont Silver Baton) and writer, IMHO it's unwatchable. But that's just my opinion.
I have to say I appreciate your review as it was very thoughtful. It was so good it made me hate this movie even more. I hate it theme of nihilism of it yet how arrogant the movie with its theme.
I think this movie is about suicide and the last 6 months of someone's life who is miserable to begin with and just has all these illusions of what life could be beautiful woman neighbor and everything else shit .... or the little friend worm in the theater stage and the lady in the radiator telling that suicide is ok because in heaven everything is fine sounds like my life ... Henry just seems confused or just lies his way to get out of a uncomfortable scenario which seem to be on going .... and that death and sex seem to be the only pleasures I mean his girlfriend is a pain in the ass the mother is a pain in the ass the grandmother is a pain by being almost by being almost dead the deformed decrepit baby the neighrhood the place he's staying seem to be all shit he[s phoograph looking for the right part of the song which he looks for this part that's like upbeat and sweet and sounds like la lala la laaaaaaaaaa has nightmares of the lady in radiator or the fact his head pops off when she's done singing it ... After revisiting the bleeding tree from The Grandmother Lynch's 1970 film based on the same kind of hell maybe it's Henry as a little boy although he transforms at the end into the tree or something ...His possible parents call him Mott or Mutt ... So anyway he never receives any mail the elevator takes too long to close and has circuitry problems like the lamps and other things which when he cuts the baby open the baby turns into cottage cheese and his head becomes huge and explodes .... with the lighting going off and on... And ah the hell with trying to tell this story ...
Oh yeah and to add to that hell the neighbor falls in love with this decrepit man with facial skin condition .... The moving headless chicken who begins to bleed ... And that the food is getting mighty cold .. Allan Joesph and LOL puppies water pipes yelling while shit start to erupt .... He put every in every pipe in the neighborhood the grandmother smokes after mixing salad and when the bottle is put down on the sink the sound of the bottle is like deafening ... Like POP ... Probably Lynch intention ... Um make sure that the UM bottle is like POP when it's put down gently on sink .... People on set but why Lynch most likely says Fuck because why can anyone just do as I tell them ... Instead of asking me stupid questions like the volume of the salad dressing botttle hitting the upper part of this cheap ass sink ... This movie had a profound effect on me and when I talk to people it's like exactly like what you're reading here... Jesus this guy is going insane about this pathetic story of a baby wrapped in gauze and LOL you know the cat which is on the DVD menu that was left out of the movie ... I think I'm going to go to heaven and meet the woman in the radiator ... But what's really important then anything in the whole universe is I need my Hamburger Hamlet or Bob's Big Boy drawing of a red head kid looking like he;s from the 1950's break for coffee and Apple Pie ... Now in these fucking end time coffee and apple pie slice probably go for 15.50 cents God DAMNIT MAN ... The United States due to the Covid thing for some reason that used that bat talking a shit on someone's head for the purpose of having the prices of everything go up 75 percent ... I'm telling ya something is wrong with humanity and that can get with murder or whatever Penis Diddy did for 30 years because he's not some typical black man because he's a multi billionare and I have nothing living off disability off the govt GOD DAMNIT I GOING TO JUST DO WHAT I WANT FOR NOW ON STEAL ANYTHING I WANT KILL ANYONE I WANT JUST ANYTHING THAT COMES TO MIND AND I'M 55 YEARS OLD I'm SICK OF THIS PATHETIC LIFE AND THIS PLANET I HATE IT OR HUMANITY MOSTLY IT"S NOT THE PLANET THAT'S A BAD HABIT IT'S NOT THE EARTH OR PLANET ALTHOUGH HUMANITY REALLY FUCKED IT UP ALTHOUGH SINCE WE CAN FIGURE OUT HOW TO SCAM PEOPLE I want my PAYPAL ACCOUNT OR LET ME BACK THAT UP I WANT TO LEARN HOW TO ROB PEOPLE THAT ARE IN PRISON AND JUST WUW=ywr
When Lynch was asked what Eraserhead was about he replied ,"about 80 minutes"
The entire world of this movie haunts you like a nightmare you can never forget
I love this film for its absurdity and creativity. It’s one of the most unique films I’ve ever seen and it truly fascinates me.
yes!
True
Stanley Kubrick once stated that Eraserhead is one of his favorite films.
I wish someone had asked him why.
It wasn't "one" of his favourites but his absolute Favourite Film. Lynch said that Kubrick took his friends to the cinema telling them he's gonna show them his favourite film. The Shining's sound design was heavily inspired by Eraserhead.
@@LearningaboutMovies He probably found it hilarious that a film like that was even made.
But being serious, Kubrick appreciated the inspiration the works of others could bring and he praised that. He actually admired things like "white men can't jump" but nobody mentions that often. It means nothing much but the fact that he probably saw a particular shot that he liked a lot and wanted to try a similar thing, or he found something well crafted. In the case of "eraserhead" probably has to do with certain images and with the way it affects through the "background" sources, the subliminal aspect in which translates old sitcoms into that current time. I have no doubt Kubrick could appreciate that since his films have a key element in subliminal messages and crafting that which the subconscious mind will receive without being noticed by the awareness of the audience.
The only reason that strikes as "meaningful" beyond that, it's because Lynch is bloated beyond his merits and in combination, if people consider him a genius and someone like Kubrick admired one of his films, then he must be it without question.
Yet nobody cares if Kubrick liked "modern romance" or "white men can't jump", because it doesn't attach to a bloated figure they need to justify.
I mean... after all, Kubrick was brilliant and somehow he had to look down on something to find inspiration about how to describe a swamp. You go look into a swamp to achieve that.
What a flim
Because there was no high caliber movie than that pushover movie to be scary. This movie hurt my brain a little and I almost got sleepy when about to end realising the movie doenst even tell a story.
Eraserhead, to me, has alsways looked like the literalization of the fear that the protagonists of a silent film must deal with, when, out of the blue, sound arrives, as if Eraserhead were a corrupted silent film, corrupted by sounds ( the 'baby''s cry, characters that aren'used to talk and are afraid to do it, so they make long pauses between lines of dialogue and, consequently, the dialogue is sparse and fragmentary) and turned into a hellish suburban, industrial (Modern Times) nightmare.
Not to mention that 'the baby', i.e. the 'soundtrack', comes out of Henry's mouth.
that's very good. thanks!
It’s crazy how you mention that. I just watched this movie for the first time and my first thought was he reminds me of Charlie Chaplin in the beginning when he is just walking around. My second thought was this movie would have been a comeback type movie for the actor Charlie Chaplin if he was in it. Kinda like how when comedy actors do “serious” roles later in their career . I know he died the year it came out ( and too old) but that would have been cool . Especially since it would totally confirm your take on the movie.
@@cullmnt what's also funny (in a way for a Gen X-er like myself), that now 1977 is about half-way between 2023 and 1927, or around the time 'talkies' began ... history flies by fast, trust me
When my wife and i were about to become parents we watched 3 movies focused on children…Monster’s Inc, Good Morning (Ozu), and Eraserhead. It was both of our first time seeing Eraserhead and we loved it. When we were in the hospital with our newborn every time he made noise in the middle of the night we just laughed because it sounded like the baby
that's is a fascinating collection of movies to watch. When my wife was in the hospital with our last one, I remember watching Kind Heart and Coronets, and Knute Rockne: American Hero (or whatever the one is with Ronald Reagan). Yes, I was watching TCM.
@@LearningaboutMovies love it!
Oy veh.
My first baby was born 6 weeks ago. I found this movie on the forefront of my mind. I rewatched about 2 weeks ago and it made sense to me in a way it never had before. Then the sad news yesterday, marking the first time I’ve ever been busted up about a celebrity death soooooo David Lynch marathon this weekend!! RIP you beautiful man.
@ Congratulations on the baby!
Eraserhead is one of the oddest movies I have ever watched. It is almost a silent movie with little dialogue and mostly driven by the amazing sound effects.
for sure!
I'm a huge David Lynch fan watched everything from him and loved all of it but to me nothing tops Eraserhead, it's perfection, Kubrick loved it as well. Babies are generally portrayed as cute/wholesome in films and in this a grotesque alien further alienating the connection between our protagonist and his child. When he finally manages to seduce the neighbor but fails to "close the deal" the child mocks him and is seen as the reason he can't enjoy the full freedom of bachlerhood. I had an explanation to the weird fantasy elements when i first watched Eraserhead but now they are lost to me, time for a rewatch!
thank you, good comment.
I didn't feel he seduces the neighbour at all. The neighbour seduces him.
Eraserhead felt like a visceral experience of being human in a world out of control.
Well said. I was amazed how he stayed civil with all that crazy world he lives in.
Did he really stay civil tho by the end? Or perhaps you mean for as long as he did.
- Yet of course I think no one could put up with that existence forever, even if/as a dream it represents what it felt like to him.
He did end up killing the “baby” and embracing death (where everything’s “fine”)
I like the comment you made regarding the man with the levers and the anti-existentialist message of the film, that the protagonist is not really free, is trapped and is not really living his own life because of forces beyond his control.
Also, I would be really curious to hear your take on The Holy Mountain.
have not seen that but intended to after watching (a few years ago) Jodorowsky's Dune. Probably will push up watching it to this next month on this rec. Looks ... interesting.
Holy Mountain is fantastic. Also very surreal. Some amazing sets and concepts.
Eraserhead was my first movie of not understanding anything at all and the same time enjoying every bit of it. With many reviews, it makes more sense but Lynch stated no one has reached the exact meaning but only partially. Truly a fascinating audiovisual experience!!!
thank you.
Hi Dr. Josh Matthews, long time watcher first time commenter and so glad you decided to cover this film. It is one of my all time favorites, I feel that the level of abstraction that it goes into allows for plenty of different interpretations to be drawn from viewing. I had never even considered your theory about this movie's relationship with the formulaic TV sitcom. I fully agree with your point that this movie is all about insecurity, and for me specifically I find it to be about existential dread. It is the outside looking in and reminds me of a bad psychedelic trip, a nightmare, dysphoria. A profoundly deep level of discomfort that is innately part of the human experience and David Lynch manages to capture it in a way like no other. Great video, keep it up man!
thank you very much. great comment.
The continuous buzzing sounds remind me of Japanese summer - you live here long enough, you get used to the cicadas screaming non-stop, sounds EXACTLY like the sound in the movie.
Also when Harry's head is lopped off and taken away by the kid to the factory, where his brain/head is then made into pencil erasers, THIS exact moment makes him 'Eraserhead'...
the cicadas are like that here, too. I recall them giving me tinnitus temporarily many times.
I watched "Beau is Afraid" a couple of weeks ago, and then yesterday I watched "Eraserhead". Not that they can be compared toe to toe, but it's notable that Ari Aster took some sips from that fountain, specially the "nerdy disturbed dude in a crazy surreal world" choice of protagonist.
Lynch adding that dust mist behind his head is so inspired...watching the film now I see a connection to season 3 of Twin Peaks. Radiation, twin peaks, and that steamer.
very interesting observation! thank you.
my favorite channel talking about my favorite movie! This must be heaven and David Lynch told me "In heaven, everything is fine"
Thank you very much.
It's one of those movies that were on my "to watch list" for a long time. Still haven't watched it.
expect odd, very odd.
It is not great. I too had it on the watch list and was very disappointed.
Did you watch it yet?
@@Thelastspartankiller no XD
As a father of two young boys this film resonated with me very much.
I agree 110% about your hypothesis regarding the most general meaning being an expression of deep insecurity in an individual. It always resonated with me on this level. And yes on other levels it can be more surface or circumstantial about fear of fatherhood etc, but to me the baby was a manifestation of his deepest insecurities and anxieties, which made the climax of the film sooo uplifting when he turns to face them as they get bigger and bigger after he cuts open the bandages. Truly Lynch’s most spiritual film. RIP 😢
Even the ending scene when the dome ruptures and the man with the levers struggles to keep control. After confronting his deepest layers he overcomes his ego completely, reaches a sort of ego death and is finally at peace. My opinion of course.
The second time I watched the movie it didn't seem so confusing, it just wasn't very obvious whether it was showing a dream or the "reality" (if it can be called that). I noticed that in the beginning there was a floor design of the black lodge.
very good.
I don’t understand anything in the film , but I have to accepted that images and soundscapes of this film is absolutely great. It’s very “Lynchian” style 😂😂
This movie perfectly depicted how dreams can be
Didn’t understand anything in the movie but I LOVE THE LIL BABY he’s so funnee
eraserhead is not a movie, it's an experience
arguable that all great movies are.
Cringe statement. Eraserhead is a movie.
@@BRNRDNCK looking back, i agree HHAHAHA
@@carlramos9445I disagree with myself all the time. But I agree with your original comment. At least today I do, tomorrow I’ll come back to tell you how much it sucked.
It's just a creepfest. I've lived in a fairly desolate, industrial part of Houston and the whole movie gives you that sense of emptiness and desperation you get walking around Isolated oil refineries and industrial parks.
David Lynch is a visionary
better than most.
This is my favorite movie. David lynch is my favorite Director
His movies are watchable and enjoyable for the main stream Hollywood cinema audience. Amazing movie, sound and it's feel.
I watched eyes without face and watched this right after, I had no idea what I was getting into and I was not ready
I would love to hear you talk about more David Lynch works!! Have you seen Mulholland Drive or Twin Peaks?
my writeup on Mulholland is not favorable. I saw it in a Philip K Dick vein -- one of my favorite writers -- and in that light it does not compare. it's on letterboxd.
Thank you. Intelligent read on Lynch.
Excellent timing.
indeed!
Why’s that
@@thenero9493 I was just asking him about Lynch movies a few days ago. Serendipitous that he posted this video next.
I feel like the movie is showing one of the possible outcomes of an unwanted pregnancy. The alien baby may be the way some people see or feel about a baby they aren't prepared to have. The awkward scene when the girl's mother pushes him about whether or not they had intercourse made me think there was emphasis being put on how you get pregnant. Basically saying they had sex and the result was a baby so they have to get married and be parents now. I can actually see both sides of the abortion debate going on so I guess it's really open to interpretation. Also, that man-made chicken is terrifying considering the fact that they are growing meat in labs.
It's a perfect surreal diamond.
And Mr. Lynch gives me a weather
hmmm
This is my favorite Lynch film. I saw it on the big screen, but this was not my first watching. The projectionist was hip as to how important the industrial sounds are in the movie, so the sound was cranked way up, a bit too much, and I can say that on the big screen the details were even more impressive.
I love me some Lynch..
I remember as a child my father introducing me to adult horror and science fiction books, all the classics and as I got older I became a lover of film and returned the favour introducing him to films he would never see on tv, I can honestly say this was the only film that he literally said wtf was that?
I like the b&w and the creepy industrial sound mix, it's very much a fever dream to me, not for everyone but a classic nevertheless.
excellent!
do you have any recommendations for the horror and science fiction books and movies ?
I took it as every weird thing we saw was his feelings or anxieties visualized. So yes he had a baby but it was his feelings about it visualized. Not a real monster but we see it as one cause that’s how he and his girlfriend felt about it. And I took the man in the planet as being the same as the woman in the radiator (his internal world visualized…controlled by the man in his head and persuaded by the woman). I don’t understand what the little thing in the cabinet was though.
Life is indeed absurd viewed through the prism of certain death. So to deal with this for me Lynch seems to be saying "use humour and surrealism and absurdism" and that's fine by me. I dug this movie.
thank you.
I've heard that this is a metaphor for parenthood (especially fatherhood) and how overwhelming it can be. Well, yes, if your baby looks like a bald calf's head!
Thanks for reviewing this movie! Your insights are helpful. The insecurity aspect of this movie is crushing. Yowza!
David Lynch claims he just pulled the thoughts out of nowhere for the movie and just made it for what it was. I don’t see it that way! It’s a story about an abandoned industrial town in present-day Pennsylvania. But in an alternate universe! The Russians or Japanese fulfilled our fears about the Cold War and dropped nuclear bombs on the United States in the 1950s. Most people were killed, technology became at a standstill, and those that survived had all kinds of emotional issues. Hence the strange behavior of all the characters in the movie! And of course, the baby!
Everyone has a valid opinion, yours no more valid than any of the more esoteric ones. Part of what makes his films so great. RIP
@ OK, you don’t have to get snooty about it
in my country Philippines 🇵🇭 eraserheads is one of the successful band and there era. They got this movie tittle to named the band. 😁
I use white noise for sleeping so this movie is basically my film for having a nice sleep haha
I wish tcm would play more Lynch movies and surrealist movies in general.
I'm surprised they play any at all!
Could there be a future review on Robert Rodriguez's El Mariachi and Maya Derren's Meshes of the Afternoon??
I am happy to consider those.
Can’t say I never seen anything like this but very interesting film. I watched last night on max
Es una película espectacular.
Imágenes y pesadillas en una secuencia de imágenes.
thank you.
It is pretty much a nightmare. I don't know what else can I say about it. I feel empty or hollow after watching it.
I have a university work, that is to make the sound and music for this movie, idk what to do 😭😂
Lynch described how all will bring their own associations and interpretations to the movie, which of course doesn’t negate his own intentions or mean that it means nothing 😏
I think virtually all Americans who don’t like it probably don’t have deep film history experience. I haven’t seen or read Lynch describing influences (he’s not unique in this)😉 but he had to be aware of earlier Euro surrealist/expressionist movies like M, Un Chien Andalou, Les Enfants Terrible, Crime & Punishment - I mean how similar are Lorre and Nance?❤
Kafka, 1984, Freaks, … very many references.
It is a documentary of lynch's nightmare
does he have a recurring nightmare?
I remember watching Mullholland Dr in my teens and remember disliking it and it put me off watching any of the other David Lynch movies. Perhaps Blue Velvet would be a better reintroduction to Lynch than Eraserhead? It does look interesting Eraserhead head though
not sure. I always recommend Elephant Man and Straight Story to ordinary moviegoers/casual viewers. Both likable and not too weird, yet Lynchian. I did not review Mulholland favorably (look up my writeup on letterboxd), but do not tell anybody! (many get mad by such views).
@@LearningaboutMovies Oh yes I have seen elephant man, I forgot that was a Lynch film that's quite good. I agree with some of the things you say in your Mullholland Dr review. From my observations, the movie is about the lies we tell ourselves and the absurdities we conjure up in our heads as a method to rationalise and deal with failure and hardships we may suffer in life, in the case of Mullholland Dr, the failures an actress may suffer in pursuit of a Hollywood career- and how these kinds of people deal with it. Like yourself, I can't really connect these kinds of themes to myself, and the message I think it tries to signal to its viewers, or at least the one I got, doesn't really resonate with me at all. Movies that deal with more important and bigger issues like existentialism, the nature of man, spirituality, political and social critiques are things that are more my taste.
@@LearningaboutMovies Munholland drive is total masterpice
@@LearningaboutMovies I 10000000000%agree with you, Munholland drive have such a cult and standard peoples ho go to cinema think that is Lord of the rings Gladiator, Psycho,, Shawshank redemption and movies like that, Munholland drive is for us ho seen almost all Fellini, Bergman, Kurusawa, Billy Wilder, Wiliam Willer, David Lean, Alfred Hitchcock, Joseph Mankiewicz, Altman, Lumet, Leone, Copolla, Fincher, Scott, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, Cohen brothers, Del Toro, Inarritu, Cauron, Tarkovski and so many others great directors, Munholland drive, Vertigo and Fight club are masteripices but in time of this movies critic are awful to this movies only Munholland drive is by critic do well and Linch is nominated for best director at oscars, today this movies are golden standard for movies, same with Tarkovski Mirror or Tokyo story
This movie is about the man on the moon with the levers having space fever and the baby is his imagination
Who do you think is the best surreal filmmaker? And what is your favourite surreal movie?
It depends on what surreal means. I could classify Malick as such, though his is a dreamier/beautiful surrealism.
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Do you think the series twin peaks fits this type of dreamlike/surrealism? because i am thinking of watching it.
I thought I was one of the only 37 people on the planet to have seen this movie at an "art movie" house in the early 80s.
How about covering Sorcerer, or the original, Wages of Fear, if you thought one of them was great? If you didn't share such opinion, well... never mind.
there's a brief review on this channel of Wages of Fear.
Oneiric Masterpiece
You said Harry Spencer. It's Henry....apart from that it's a good analysis 😉
thank you for the correction!
I watched this movie a few days ago and frankly....didn't really like it that much the constant loud background noise was too distracting
Henry Spencer, not Harry but thank you for the video!
Thanks
This movie is SOOO depressing, and I LOVE it! 🖤
I tried to watch it but it’s not for me. I appreciate your interpretation of this movie because I was more disturbed than intrigued by the movie. This was a weird movie for me to dip my toe into the idea of artistic expression through film. Or at least films outside of the normal canned cinema where everything is right in front of your face.
Such a bizarre film. I dont get it but I really do like it.
I think everybody who likes it would be able to say your second sentence.
Saw it first run in 1977 at the Cinema Village in Manhattan. I was 17. After decades working in the business as a union cam asst, then independent shooter, editor (Emmy nom, DuPont Silver Baton) and writer, IMHO it's unwatchable. But that's just my opinion.
yes
yep.
I have to say I appreciate your review as it was very thoughtful. It was so good it made me hate this movie even more. I hate it theme of nihilism of it yet how arrogant the movie with its theme.
In answer of your video. “It ends”
I forgot the question.
Munholland drive is my 3 best movie ever made, i love Linch movies not Dune and this movie, but for Linch standard is not good for me
glad you like those movies.
Its fun silly
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thank you
Didn’t like the movie. Too slow and too confusing but part of it is growing on me
I think this movie is about suicide and the last 6 months of someone's life who is miserable to begin with and just has all these illusions of what life could be beautiful woman neighbor and everything else shit .... or the little friend worm in the theater stage and the lady in the radiator telling that suicide is ok because in heaven everything is fine sounds like my life ... Henry just seems confused or just lies his way to get out of a uncomfortable scenario which seem to be on going .... and that death and sex seem to be the only pleasures I mean his girlfriend is a pain in the ass the mother is a pain in the ass the grandmother is a pain by being almost by being almost dead the deformed decrepit baby the neighrhood the place he's staying seem to be all shit he[s phoograph looking for the right part of the song which he looks for this part that's like upbeat and sweet and sounds like la lala la laaaaaaaaaa has nightmares of the lady in radiator or the fact his head pops off when she's done singing it ... After revisiting the bleeding tree from The Grandmother Lynch's 1970 film based on the same kind of hell maybe it's Henry as a little boy although he transforms at the end into the tree or something ...His possible parents call him Mott or Mutt ... So anyway he never receives any mail the elevator takes too long to close and has circuitry problems like the lamps and other things which when he cuts the baby open the baby turns into cottage cheese and his head becomes huge and explodes .... with the lighting going off and on... And ah the hell with trying to tell this story ...
Oh yeah and to add to that hell the neighbor falls in love with this decrepit man with facial skin condition .... The moving headless chicken who begins to bleed ... And that the food is getting mighty cold .. Allan Joesph and LOL puppies water pipes yelling while shit start to erupt .... He put every in every pipe in the neighborhood the grandmother smokes after mixing salad and when the bottle is put down on the sink the sound of the bottle is like deafening ... Like POP ... Probably Lynch intention ... Um make sure that the UM bottle is like POP when it's put down gently on sink .... People on set but why Lynch most likely says Fuck because why can anyone just do as I tell them ... Instead of asking me stupid questions like the volume of the salad dressing botttle hitting the upper part of this cheap ass sink ... This movie had a profound effect on me and when I talk to people it's like exactly like what you're reading here... Jesus this guy is going insane about this pathetic story of a baby wrapped in gauze and LOL you know the cat which is on the DVD menu that was left out of the movie ... I think I'm going to go to heaven and meet the woman in the radiator ... But what's really important then anything in the whole universe is I need my Hamburger Hamlet or Bob's Big Boy drawing of a red head kid looking like he;s from the 1950's break for coffee and Apple Pie ... Now in these fucking end time coffee and apple pie slice probably go for 15.50 cents God DAMNIT MAN ... The United States due to the Covid thing for some reason that used that bat talking a shit on someone's head for the purpose of having the prices of everything go up 75 percent ... I'm telling ya something is wrong with humanity and that can get with murder or whatever Penis Diddy did for 30 years because he's not some typical black man because he's a multi billionare and I have nothing living off disability off the govt GOD DAMNIT I GOING TO JUST DO WHAT I WANT FOR NOW ON STEAL ANYTHING I WANT KILL ANYONE I WANT JUST ANYTHING THAT COMES TO MIND AND I'M 55 YEARS OLD I'm SICK OF THIS PATHETIC LIFE AND THIS PLANET I HATE IT OR HUMANITY MOSTLY IT"S NOT THE PLANET THAT'S A BAD HABIT IT'S NOT THE EARTH OR PLANET ALTHOUGH HUMANITY REALLY FUCKED IT UP ALTHOUGH SINCE WE CAN FIGURE OUT HOW TO SCAM PEOPLE I want my PAYPAL ACCOUNT OR LET ME BACK THAT UP I WANT TO LEARN HOW TO ROB PEOPLE THAT ARE IN PRISON AND JUST WUW=ywr
It’s not even remotely great.
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It literally is the representation of a Freudian nightmare on film.