I recently attended a Q&A session with Lynch himself who said that this was actually his most experimental film and looking to it deeply it's not a normal movie at all. He was experimenting with art and texture and bringing fort new ideas. To all Lyunch fans I must say that apart from Dune every Lynch film is unique and worth watching even if it's not concurrent with his regular resume'
shareWhere was the Q & A? Can you tell us more about it?
shareWas this before or after he made Inland Empire? I can't imagine him doing anything more experimental than that one.
shareThis may be the funniest thread I've seen in a while.
The film is great, and bears up well with repeated watchings. I have to say, though, Lynch is probably just selling it to a wider audience that may not appreciate it for its 'normalcy' by telling his fans that it's experimental.
As for his involvement in world peace. Sigh. Okay.
Pretty funny stuff.
What kinda "interesting" suggestions did he have then to bring peace to Middle East? Just the meditation thing...I presume? Or were there some other ideas also involved? Kinda funny to imagine Mossad or Hizbollah "plunging" into unified field on a daily basis... Would make a great sketch, Monty Python-style.
shareI doubt anything Lynch has made feels as "experimental" as "Eraserhead." It seems like just a fashionable statement that a "simple" movie is really the most "experimental" a director has ever attempted; calling wood "wood" doesn't snare anyone's attention but if you try to drink a glass, people will surely talk and wonder.
shareRemember that David Lynch sees things differently. For him Eraserhead made perfect sense whereas a narrative road trip about a man on a mower is a bit out of his level of expertise, so he got to try some new techniques. And it isn't common to shoot films chronologically. That's something you can rarely pull off.
shareI really lol'd
shareHis reasons given for why it is so experimental have more to do with painting than cinema; remember that Lynch's background is as a painter. We're all applying degrees of experimentation to his films from a cinematic viewpoint, but perhaps Lynch made that statement from the perspective of a painter.
I don't have a background in art, so I really wouldn't be able to analyze it, personally.
Deep emotional film, not good enough though...
I kind of found it boring for most of the time.
Whadda ya think?
I saw him in Haifa a year or so back, when he came to promote TM in Israel. He said things similar to what the OP wrote.
"Sometimes you have to take the bull by the tail, and face the truth" - G. Marx
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I knew it the moment I saw the pan up and then pan down.
Great movie. Not my Lych favourite, but... has he a bad film?
Yes, Dune. Haha. I guess it's reasonable to call this his most experimental film. If one looks at his production as a whole. Doesn't The Straight Story really stick out like a store thumb?
shareI read Lynch saying the exact same thing in an interview, how "Twin Peaks: FWWM" used to be his most experimental flick up until he made "The Straight Story". now, what I interpreted from that is that "the most experimental" refers to the way the movie was made, which is something that doesn't neccesarily even show on screen. it is nowhere near as visually or stylistically experimental as "Eraserhead", "L.H." or "M.D.".
i think one of the main reasons that he consider it so experimental was that rather than shooting it like a regular film, using different locations to replace real ones, Lynch and the crew actually made the entire trip as portrayed in the movie; in fact, using the real locations. this is really cool, and it's an amazing movie, although it is the only Lynch film i have yet to own on DVD.
how "Twin Peaks: FWWM" used to be his most experimental flick up until he made "The Straight Story". now, what I interpreted from that is that "the most experimental" refers to the way the movie was made,
Its adherence to conventions, the fact that it's entirely written by someone else, and is a G rated Disney picture makes it an interesting experiment - can Lynch bring his unusual vision to a project of these confines?