کتاب کوچک کارگردانان (۵): دیوید لینچ

The Pocket Essentials: Film

by Michelle Le Blanc, Colin Odell, Mehdi Mostafavi (Translator)

Pocket Essentials is a fresh new series of film books that are short, snappy, and easy to read. Packed with facts, and backed up by opinion, each book has all the key information you need to know about the world's most celebrated film directors and film genres. What's in a book? As well as an introduction to the subject, each film by a director or each genre is individually analyzed and reviewed. In addition, the director or genre's impact on the film industry is explained, and a handy reference section lists all the far weightier (and more expensive) books on the subject. For movie buffs and students, these are great little entry-level books that build into an essential film library.

Genres: Nonfiction, Film

First published April 1, 2000

Reviews

[Ali Frz · Rating 4 out of 5]

کتابو قبلا خوندم
به بهانه تماشای سریال
Twin Peaks
دوباره شروع کردم به خوندن

[Mahda Purmehdi · Rating 2 out of 5]

چیز آن‌چنان به‌دردبخوری درباره‌ی فیلم‌های لینچ نمی‌گوید. خیلی اوقات هم وقتی جزئیات فیلم‌های لینچ را تعریف می‌کند، می‌فهمید که یا حواس نویسنده به فیلم نبوده یا حافظه‌ی خیلی بدی دارد. خواندنش خالی از لطف نیست اما اگر لینچ برایتان کارگردان مهمی برای مطالعه است، کتاب میشل لوبلان را جدی نگیرید!

[Jeff Miller · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun little book, found in a second hand bookshop for £4 and well worth an afternoon's reading.

I've read a few of these Pocket Essentials - they're a decent series, even if I don't think they lasted all that long. Here Michelle Le Blanc and Colin Odell cast their eyes over the work of David Lynch and do a good job of showing the development of the work, the motifs and important collaborations, and display a real love for Lynch and his work. The text works really well, slightly relaxed - almost like sitting you down and explaining what you need to know, without it being overly dry or academic. The fact they cover some of the more forgotten television work ensures that this has a place in the list of books every Lynch fan should own.

What I found most interesting is where it stops - post Straight Story, and with Mulholland Drive in limbo as an unscreened pilot, there is almost a feeling that Lynch has done what he needed to do - commercial successes, personal projects, artistic integrity and then surprising everyone with a final 'Sunday afternoon' film...with little indication that still to follow would be the even 'deeper' Inland Empire, the remarkable return to Twin Peaks, and in the final version of Mulholland Drive, arguably the best film so far of the 21st century...a genuine 'all-time great'.

I note that I have an earlier edition (with a younger picture on the cover!) and will be interested to find a later copy...

Anything that puts me in Lynch's universe for an hour or so, can only be a good thing.

[Derek Baldwin · Rating 3 out of 5]

An expanded and updated edition of the Pocket edition by the same authors. Decent summaries and reviews of all DL’s works except Twin Peaks The Return. Some additional thematic chapters are also pretty good, especially the one on sound design. A lively and very readable introduction to one of the great artists of the cinema.

[Saeed Aj · Rating 5 out of 5]

خلاصه و جمع‌و‌جور بررسی کارنامه لینچ(فیلم به فیلم)

[Iman Ranjbar · Rating 4 out of 5]

مشکل ترجمه همچنان در این سری از کتاب ها ادامه داره اما سبک و سیاق متن زبان اصلی آنچنان جذاب هست که تمایل به خواندن در آدم را ایجاد کنه.
اگر طرفدار سینما هستید این سری از کتاب رو از دست ندید.

[Jr · Rating 4 out of 5]

as a somewhat accomplished lynch aficionado, this book covers well-trod territory. there were only a minor amount of revelatory sections for me, chiefly those re:INLAND EMPIRE, and i kept feeling a severe sense of deja vu. this was not imagined as the works cited were nearly all on my bookcase. *smirk* still, for those that have seen a few of lynch's films or are intrigued to learn a little more about the production of his many works this is not wasted reading. it's a light affair and not prone to bore you.