DAVID LYNCH: 10 ESSENTIAL MOVIES

David Lynch's 10 Essential Movies

1. Eraserhead (1977)

2. The Elephant Man (1980)

3. Dune (1984)

4. Blue Velvet (1986)

5. Wild at Heart (1990)

6. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)

7. Lost Highway (1997)

8. The Straight Story (1999)

9. Mulholland Drive (2001)

10. Inland Empire (2006)

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"Lynch uses the cinema to express non-rational energy in tangible form (visually and aurally). This energy is familiar to us all, but has been repressed in us by language, rationality, and education. This is one reason why Lynch's films seem to be nonsensical, but nonetheless evoke powerful feelings. It is easy to make nonsensical films that don't evoke any feelings at all, because they don't engage with the non-rational energy that Lynch evokes."
― Thomas Elsaesser & Warren Buckland, Studying Contemporary American Film: A Guide to Movie Analysis, 2002.

"The undoubted perversity that runs throughout the works of David Lynch extends to his repeated and unexpected career turns... Both a genuine artist and a cunning commercial survivor, Lynch stands, with maybe David Cronenberg, as the Best Hope for cinema in the 1990s."
― Kim Newman, International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1991.

"Although his cult star has waxed and waned, this American specialist in subliminal surrealism has always reasserted his grip on his followers with some new aspect of his own ciné-fantastique. Lynch makes puzzle pictures that no one is expected to solve, and jigsaw films whose pieces never quite fit together. And, just to prove himself capable of making a 'normal' film, he made one on a very abnormal subject, The Elephant Man, and was nominated for an Academy Award in the doing."
― David Quinlan, Quinlan's Film Directors, 1999.

"Perhaps the most original and imaginative director to emerge from America in recent years, David Lynch reveals an uncanny ability to draw upon his own inner fantasies and create strange, sinister worlds at once unreal and oddly familiar. If the films' precise meaning is sometimes less than clear, their power and invention remain virtually unparalleled in contemporary mainstream cinema."
― Geoff Andrew, The Film Handbook, 1989.

"He made his feature film debut with Eraserhead (1976) and subsequently became known for his dark, sometimes nightmarishly intense thrillers and his fascination with the perverse, sometimes surreal underside of small-town American life."
― Chambers Film Factfinder, 2006.

"David Lynch has accumulated a huge following of audiences willing to enter his bizarre and labyrinthine dream world."
― Ronald Bergan, Film - Eyewitness Companions, 2006.

"If high hair is an indication of genius, then David Lynch's plumage outclasses that of his contemporaries - steeper than Jim Jarmusch and wilder than David Cronenberg. The same goes for his oeuvre. With their steep and wild puzzle narratives, Lynch's films are to be experienced instead of explained - never good with words, he is more of a preverbal philosopher than an evangelist, questioning instead of answering."
― Ernest Mathijs, 501 Movie Directors, 2007.

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David Lynch’s 10 Favourite Movies

1. 8 1/2 (1963) by by Federico Fellini.

2. Sunset Blvd. (1950) by Billy Wilder.

3. Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) by Jacques Tati.

4. Rear Window (1954) by Alfred Hitchcock.

5. It's a Gift (1934) by Norman Z. McLeod.

6. The Apartment (1996) by Gilles Mimouni.

7. La Strada (1954) by Federico Fellini.

8. Lolita (1962) by Stanley Kubrick.

9. The Wizard of Oz (1939) by Victor Fleming.

10. Stroszek (1977) by Werner Herzog.