DVD wish list

[mousepod]

As long as we're making blanket opinion statements without having to back them up, Fire Walk With Me is a great movie. In fact, in my DVD player, it has a helluva lot more replay value than Eraserhead, Dune, or The Elephant Man.

But I also love On The Air.

[Tref]

I always swore that I would never be the type to collect DVDs but then I find there are some movies that I can (and want) to watch mindlessly over and over and over again.

Namely, Mystery Science Theater 3K. I gots 'em all.

And God forbid a friend asks to watch a Chaplin movie and I did not have one available (of course, no friend of mine would actually ask such a question but I must be prepared!)

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by mousepod

As long as we're making blanket opinion statements without having to back them up, Fire Walk With Me is a great movie. In fact, in my DVD player, it has a helluva lot more replay value than Eraserhead, Dune, or The Elephant Man.

But I also love On The Air.

Man, The Elephant Man is probably my all time favorite film. To each his and her own.

[mousepod]

Originally Posted by Eliza Hodgkins 1812

Man, The Elephant Man is probably my all time favorite film. To each his and her own.

Didn't mean to trash The Elephant Man - it's a fine movie. I just not-so-randomly picked the first three Lynch films to compare to Twin Peaks. Eraserhead, while his breakthrough debut, looks like a film that was made in bits and pieces (which it was), and then his next two films, The Elephant Man and Dune, were basically movies for hire. I think that the next period of his work - Blue Velvet and Wild At Heart - are transcendent, specifically because he was able to find a balance between box office aspirations and "Lynchian" filmmaking. While I enjoy Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive, I do so as a Lynch fan, who understands the vocabulary of his work. I think that Twin Peaks and On The Air are closer in style and objective to Blue Velvet and Wild At Heart, though crafted for broadcast TV rather than the big screen. And that's why they get the most repeat viewing in my DVD player. While I will always defend FWWM, I do so in the context of it being a big-screen Twin Peaks movie. I'm not sure that it would stand on its own as a work of art - too much of the symbolism depends on one's familiarity with Twin Peaks.