Perdersi è meraviglioso

by David Lynch

David Lynch (1946) è uno dei massimi cineasti statunitensi degli ultimi decenni, vincitore di due Palme d’Oro a Cannes, due César e un Leone d’Oro alla carriera. Con film come Eraserhead e Inland Empire, passando per The Elephant Man, Velluto blu, Twin Peaks e Mulholland Drive, Lynch ha affermato negli anni un proprio personalissimo stile fatto di ambiguità, mistero, perversione, di situazioni vissute in un confine indistinguibile fra sogno e realtà. Gli autori di queste ventiquattro interviste – che ripercorrono l’intera carriera del grande regista, dal 1977 fino a oggi – scavalcano abilmente il riserbo quasi maniacale di Lynch sul significato dei propri film, riuscendo a farlo aprire a risposte mai scontate ma sempre penetranti, con ampie digressioni sulle altre forme artistiche che ama: dalla pittura alla musica, al design. Fra notazioni tecniche, aneddoti dal set, ricordi personali e vere e proprie dichiarazioni di poetica, queste pagine offrono un indimenticabile ritratto in presa diretta di uno dei registi più visionari e geniali della storia del cinema.

Genres: Film, Nonfiction, Art, Media Tie In

286 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

David Keith Lynch was an American filmmaker, visual artist, musician, and actor. He received acclaim for his films, which are often distinguished by their surrealist, dreamlike qualities. In a career spanning more than fifty years, he was awarded numerous accolades, including the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival in 2006 and an Honorary Academy Award in 2019. Described as a "visionary", Lynch was considered one of the most important filmmakers of his era.
Lynch studied painting before he began making short films in the late 1960s. His first feature-length film was the independent surrealist film Eraserhead (1977), which saw success as a midnight movie. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for the biographical drama The Elephant Man (1980), the neo-noir thriller Blue Velvet (1986), and the surrealist mystery Mulholland Drive (2001). His romantic crime drama Wild at Heart (1990) won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. He also directed the space opera adaptation Dune (1984), the surrealist neo-noir Lost Highway (1997), the biographical drama The Straight Story (1999), and the experimental film Inland Empire (2006).
Lynch and Mark Frost created the ABC series Twin Peaks (1990–91), for which he was nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series and Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. Lynch co-wrote and directed its film prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), and a third season in 2017. He also portrayed FBI agent Gordon Cole in Twin Peaks and John Ford in Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans (2022), and guest-starred in shows such as The Cleveland Show (2010–13) and Louie (2012).
Lynch also worked as a musician, recording the albums BlueBOB (2001), Crazy Clown Time (2011), and The Big Dream (2013), as well as painting and photography. He wrote the books Images (1994), Catching the Big Fish (2006), and Room to Dream (2018). He directed several music videos, for artists such as X Japan, Moby, Interpol, Nine Inch Nails, and Donovan, and commercials for Dior, YSL, Gucci, and the NYC Department of Sanitation. A practitioner of Transcendental Meditation (TM), he founded the David Lynch Foundation to fund meditation lessons for students, veterans, and other "at-risk" populations. Lynch died on January 15, 2025, after being evacuated from his home due to the wildfires that started in Southern California earlier that month.

Reviews

[Miya (severe pain struggles, slower at the moment) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Anything about Lynch and his films is interesting to me. The way his mind works is just beyond me. The strange, quirkiness, with hidden meanings everywhere...I grew up being a huge fan of Twin Peaks, and kept going down the rabbit hole. People who are not big Lynch fans might not love this, but those of us who are will appreciate getting to know him a bit through these pages.

[Diletta · Rating 5 out of 5]

Togliere il coperchio alla coscienza. Non spiegare niente. Inseguire i misteri.

[Sara · Rating 4 out of 5]

È mia convinzione da tempo, e la lettura di ogni testo dedicato a David Lynch me lo conferma, che tutti nasciamo artisti, ma non tutti abbiamo il coraggio di essere artisti.

[DrCrower Books · Rating 4 out of 5]

La colección de entrevistas recopiladas y editadas por Richard Barney a David Lynch, recogidas desde los tiempos del estreno de "Cabeza Borradora" hasta los días de "Inland Empire" y la conversión de Lynch en el mayor misionero mundial de la meditación trascendental podría pertenecer por derecho propio a una "sagrada trinidad" de libros sobre el director narrados en primera persona. El primero sería, obviamente, su autobiografía "Espacio para soñar" y el clásico "Lynch on Lynch" de Chris Rodley el segundo. Este tiene en el lado de los "pros" de la balanza el hecho de moverse a través del tiempo, lo que ayuda a dar una dimensión cronológica a su obra y a la manera de Lynch de referirse a ella -es encomiable como no cambia de de discurso con el paso del años respecto a ciertos temas, ya hable sobre ello en 1977 o en el 2006-, y de que los entrevistadores son diferentes, lo que proporciona diferentes tipos de acercamiento -algo inexistente en el libro de Chris Rodley- lo que lleva a contemplar como reacciona Lynch ante interrogadores bastante hostiles (como en "Time Out" en 1992) o otros más relajados pero que intentan aprovechar que baje la guardia para sacarle alguna que otra confesión delicada (David Breskin en 1990). Los "contras", leer una y otra sobre los mismos temas (lo que con Lynch implica leer las mismas respuestas) y salvo en tres o cuatro entrevistas, la mayoría ser un poco genéricas. En cualquier caso, muy recomendable para todos aquellos que deseen profundizar un poco más en la figura de un director que precisamente no destaca por ser un maestro de la comunicación verbal y hay que dedicarle en cualquier tipo de investigación racional un cierto tiempo.

[Joseph Dougherty · Rating 4 out of 5]

For a guy who notoriously hated interviews, this is a pretty nice collection of interviews across the years.

[Tyrone_Slothrop (ex-MB) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gli esseri umani fanno molte cose assolutamente affascinanti, ma che allo stesso tempo trovi alquanto strane.

Una collezione di interviste rilasciate da David Lynch lungo tutta la sua carriera, da Eraserhead fino ad Inland Empire davvero interessante e affascinante: il regista di Missoula è unico nei suoi tentativi di evadere le domande e stigmatizzare l'orribile ansia di "interpretare" il film. Da queste pagine emerge in modo chiaro il senso del suo cinema (e di tutte le altre forme d'arte da lui sviluppate): dare corpo, forma, voce alle idee, alle intuizioni prerazionali (non irrazionali) che nascono dalla nostra mente. Non per ricercare un "senso", non per "capire", ma per camminare in quel gran caos che è la vita con forse un po' meno di ansia e un po' più di meraviglia per tutto il mondo che ci circonda, anche quando è oscuro, spaventoso, incomprensibile, sconvolgente...

[Niedzu · Rating 3 out of 5]

Momentami całkiem interesujące, ale sporo tu powtarzania treści. Wiele wywiadów mówi dokładnie o tym samym, przez co niektóre ciekawostki i historię przytaczane są kilkukrotnie na przestrzeni tych raptem 400 stron.

[Andrea · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interessante raccolta di interviste su Lynch dai suoi primi lavori, sino a Inland Empire: lettura piacevole ma un po’ ridondante. Essendo delle interviste tante cose si ripetono.

[ola k · Rating 5 out of 5]

DEEP DIVE INTO: DAVID LYNCH!!!!!!! i love him, this was so interesting and inspiring <3

[kadziak001 · Rating 5 out of 5]

i love this man sm

[Lea · Rating 4 out of 5]

E' una serie di interviste a David Lynch che ripercorrono la sua filmografia e la sua concezione del mondo.

"Ogni finale è una cosa terribile. Può avere una grande bellezza, ma solo se lascia spazio al sogno."

[Brett · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's kind of cool to think now that I'm a sad old bastard that I've been reading the U of Mississippi Press Conversations With Filmmakers series since I was in high school! The David Lynch one is particularly well edited with the inclusion of a Cannes Press Conference, a really intense hatchet job by a very hostile Time Out London journalist, and an article that appeared in a design magazine when Lynch tried his hand at making furniture. The John Powers interview is amazing, and shit really goes off the rails with the last interview where Lynch just starts talking nonstop about transcendental meditation and Maharishi.

[Irmina · Rating 2 out of 5]

As much as I enjoy "listening to" David Lynch, I realize he is not exactly the easiest person to talk to - which makes interviews with him a rather peculiar thing. Still, it is hard for me to believe the selection here could not have been made better. The interviews (some of them felt more like short articles written by someone who skimmed Wikipedia) are incredibly repetitive and the questions basic, surely easy for Lynch to deflect. Even cutting this book in half would have been an improvement.

I did not learn anything new about David Lynch - you'd be better off just checking out one of those "Q&As" he did on YouTube.

[Jr · Rating 4 out of 5]

familiar territory here. DL in all his circumspect glory, dishing about ideas, meditation, and keeping true to the initial things that start the ball rolling for any creative project. a few interviews are from foreign periodicals/press and were reverse translated back to english since DL's english source material is lost. the tone was a little more formal for these but it still conveyed a similar charm. also, a couple interviews previously unpublished from the editor's files. all in all, worth a look if you are a diehard DL fan.

[Alessandro Valenti · Rating 3 out of 5]

Attraverso una serie di interviste si delinea l'approccio di David Lynch al suo cinema e al suo modo di guardare il mondo. Forse nelle ultime pagine comincia a percepirsi una certa ripetitività sia nelle domande che nelle risposte. Non mi sarebbe dispiaciuto leggere qualche commento in più sui processi creativi che hanno portato alla creazione dei suoi ultimi film.
Nota positiva sicuramente le tante pagine dedicate al suo modo di utilizzare il suono.
Consiglio di leggere anche "David Lynch" di Michel Chion per un approfondimento critico sul suo cinema.

[Marta · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm completely in love with David Lynch. This book is awesome, full of interesting interviews and very deep and different points of view of the artist. I recommend it to all of you that aim to know a magnetic and crazy life.
P.S. Have u ever seen the doc 'the art life'? Amazing!

[Maria Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mi sto innamorando di quest'uomo. E' tutto.