# R.I.P. David Lynch **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [January 16, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-david-lynch/1013049 "2025-01-16T18:41:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-david-lynch/1013049/21 "2025-01-16T20:30:54Z")
In heaven everything is fine. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-david-lynch/1013049/22 "2025-01-16T20:39:14Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > I saw _Eraserhead_ shortly after it came out, mostly because I was curious to know why it had created such a stir. I didn’t expect to care for it, based on the criticisms I’d heard. > > I was in for a huge surprise. I absolutely LOVED _Eraserhead_. Most people said it was too weird, incoherent, and off-putting, yet it made perfect sense to me. My friends and I went when it came out (hello Granada Theater, Dallas), and knowing little about it. Like you I loved it, part of it being that I’d never imagined you could make a movie like that. Just transfixing. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-david-lynch/1013049/23 "2025-01-16T20:41:11Z")
My favorite director. _Mulholland Drive_ is in my top 5 films, and I’ll also defend _Dune._ RIP, David. I’ll drink a cup of coffee to your memory: > **[Every "coffee" in Twin Peaks. Damn Fine.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USb6vfYlecA%2F)** > > A journey of more than 27 years, through Season 1, 2, 3, "Twin Peaks, Fire Walk With Me" & "The Missing Pieces". The protagonist? The coffee. Damn fine coffe... ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-david-lynch/1013049/24 "2025-01-16T20:41:58Z")
Seemed like a rite of passage for film nerds, but I did get to see a midnight showing of _Eraserhead_, though not until 1993, I think. And I didn’t quite get it. I’ve watched it again recently and, besides being the clearest and sharpest restoration out of any of my Criterion discs, it’s truly staggering in its creativity. The first time I watched _Dune_ it was a bootleg of the Alan Smithee cut. Can’t say I loved it, but I understood it. Watched the theatrical cut a few years later and though it was hot garbage. The box set that Arrow Video brought out a couple of years ago is terrific. I can appreciate the film now as a genuine attempt at something interesting, even if the execution was commpletely whiffed. The bonus documentaries are great as well. I need to read the making-of book that was published last year. I was thinking, jeez, he hadn’t directed a feature since _Inland Empire_ but then I remember, oh year, he did the equivalent of a goddamned _eighteen-hour_ movie in 2017. I’m sure _Blue Velvet_ and _Mulholland Drive_ will get the lion’s share of the praise in coverage of his passing, but I’ll be that guy and say that IMHO, “Part 8 - Got a Light?” is the absolute apotheosis of Lynch’s narrative art. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-david-lynch/1013049/25 "2025-01-16T20:54:16Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > I was in for a huge surprise. I absolutely LOVED _Eraserhead_. Most people said it was too weird, incoherent, and off-putting, yet it made perfect sense to me. I like weird incoherent movies, but _Eraserhead_ was too slow for me. I liked _Blue Velvet_, though. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-david-lynch/1013049/26 "2025-01-16T20:55:02Z")
Even his worst films usually had some good bits. Lesser known among his works is his contribution to _Lumière and Company_ (1995). With a hand-cranked camera, no synchronous sound and a 50-second-or-so running time, 40 directors paid tribute to the way movies were made 100 years earlier. Lynch’s short is far and away the best of the bunch (though several others are very good). Seeing him in action as a director - without seeing what he’s directing – is also very amusing. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJE0IrDNxsY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJE0IrDNxsY) NOTE: Clip contains a flash of nudity. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-david-lynch/1013049/27 "2025-01-16T21:13:40Z")
Cool clips! ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-david-lynch/1013049/28 "2025-01-16T21:30:02Z")
> [@veryfrank](#): > > I recently managed to find a copy of _The Straight Story_ on BluRay, may have to watch that this weekend. Oh, man, I’d totally forgotten that he did “The Straight Story”. It is one of my all-time favorites. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-david-lynch/1013049/29 "2025-01-16T22:05:19Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > The Straight Story It was the last of his “ten and out” that I hadn’t seen. I liked Richard Farnsworth and if the story is about an old guy driving a ride-on tractor it must be “straight” as in no Dennis Hopper evil guys, Sailor wearing his snakeskin jacket and alas, no Jack Nance. Plus, it’s Disney. A very picturesque, lovely film. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-david-lynch/1013049/30 "2025-01-16T22:29:33Z")
The best part of “The Straight Story” is in the opening credits: Walt Disney Pictures Presents A Film By David Lynch I certainly never expected that! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-david-lynch/1013049/31 "2025-01-16T22:31:36Z")
And then there’s [_Rabbits._](https://youtu.be/drjQfQtv2BQ) ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-david-lynch/1013049/32 "2025-01-16T22:37:08Z")
That was very cool! Thanks for sharing. > [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > And then there’s [_Rabbits._](https://youtu.be/drjQfQtv2BQ) I watched those when he was putting them on his YT channel. I need to revisit. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-david-lynch/1013049/33 "2025-01-16T23:16:58Z")
_I_ thought Tom Snyder was funny. ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-david-lynch/1013049/34 "2025-01-16T23:17:27Z")
heh, I remember this one. I mean how could you not? His film sandwiched between a lot of standard shorts and tributes…Lynch decides to blow the doors off of the entire project. Its his punk style. Cannot be ignored. He never needed to go that hard. lol. (I’m on two minds if that is a shadowy figure in the window… probably not an accident…?) ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-david-lynch/1013049/35 "2025-01-16T23:36:43Z")
I have to wonder - M. Lumiere’s camera has seen a lot, but what must it have thought when it got to see what Mr. Lynch set before it? “Quoi?” If for nothing else besides making PBR cool, I’ll forever think fondly on the guy. I mean, there’s a real influencer. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-david-lynch/1013049/36 "2025-01-17T00:03:00Z")
> [@Hatchie](#): > > PBR cool If Lynch / Dennis Hopper as the villain Frank Booth made PBR “cool” then he probably knocked Heineken down a few pegs. Mr. Booth also carried around a tank of stuff to huff from. Originally, Lynch had written it as Helium, but Hopper told him it’d make him sound like Mickey Mouse, and let’s just go with Nitrous (which tends to make your voice low and like the devil) or maybe Amyl Nitrate. I’ve read some good words about Lynch from Spielberg (who made some Coin with Reeses Pieces). The “ten and out” I quoted earlier was just a coincidence that David Lynch had made ten features and Quentin Tarantino, whose next film will be his tenth, who sort of coined the phrase. He supposedly hates Lynch films though Lynch liked QT’s " \*Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" . Spike Lee doesn’t care for QT movies and no word yet from Alan Smithee. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-david-lynch/1013049/37 "2025-01-17T00:10:06Z")
Wow - I didn’t know about that. I clicked on it and _immediately_ it felt like David Lynch. Will have to watch it tonight! ---
**Author:** ![stretch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@stretch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stretch)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-david-lynch/1013049/38 "2025-01-17T00:31:56Z")
I worked with his brother John in the early 90s. After John found out I was a Twin Peaks fan, he brought in a tape of [The Cowboy & the Frenchman](https://youtu.be/JhRFbaTJiV0?si=sT6_IJQOnPsuKPr5) for the office to watch during lunch one day. By far the best day at that job. RIP, David. You brought a lot of good weird to the world. ---
**Author:** ![Chelonaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@Chelonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chelonaut)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-david-lynch/1013049/39 "2025-01-17T00:47:51Z")
For a taste of Lynch as an actor I recommend Lucky from 2017. Centered on the eponymous character played by Harry Dean Stanton, among his friends are the kind, tortoise obsessed Howard, played by Lynch. “A tortoise is an amazing creature, Lucky. They are as noble as a king and as kindhearted as a grandmother.” ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-david-lynch/1013049/40 "2025-01-17T05:17:08Z")
My first knowledge of “The Straight Story” was having the TV on as background noise, and hearing “David Lynch” and “rated G” in the space of a few seconds. Wonderful movie, too! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-david-lynch/1013049.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-david-lynch/1013049.md?page=3)