David Lynch

The Pocket Essentials: Film

by Michelle Le Blanc, Colin Odell

Internationally renowned, David Lynch is America's premier purveyor of the surreal; an artist whose work in cinema and television has exposed the world to his highly personalized view of society. Examining Lynch's entire body of work—from the cult surrealism of his debut feature Eraserhead to his latest mystery Inland Empire — this book considers the themes, motifs, and stories behind his incredible works. In Lynch's world the mundane and the fantastical collide, often with terrifying consequences. It is a place where the abnormal is normal, the respectable becomes sinister, where innocence is lost, redemption gained at a terrible price, and where there's always music in the air. From the deserts of a distant world to an ordinary backyard, at the breakneck speed of Lost Highway or the sedate determination of The Straight Story , readers will experience amateur sleuths, messiahs, giants and dwarves, chanteuses, psychopaths, cherry pie, and damn fine coffee.

Genres: Nonfiction, Film

192 pages, Paperback

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.