lynch etc
Dec. 15th, 2025 12:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishThe Cinematheque is running a full David Lynch retrospective in December: all ten of his feature films, plus a collection of shorts and the entirety of the new Twin Peaks season. I'm not certain whether I like Lynch's work but it surely is memorable.
Of those: I quite want to see Blue Velvet (seen once, basically no memory of it), Lost Highway (seen at least twice, fuzzy memories), Mulholland Drive (never seen; sounds like a more coherent Lost Highway), and The Elephant Man (never seen; supposedly Very Very Good). I have some interest in Wild At Heart (Lynch directing Nicolas Cage?) and Inland Empire (more Lynchian surrealism; might be more than I want all at once). I have pretty much no interest in Dune (ugh), Fire Walk With Me (ugh, though for different reasons; also, seen it), Eraserhead (from what I've heard I do not need that look into David Lynch's id), and The Straight Story (meh). I do not have it in me to watch eighteen hours of Twin Peaks in four days, though if I did I'd probably also watch Fire Walk With Me. Also no interest in the short films (see above re Eraserhead), and besides those are already over and done.
I'm so glad the Cinematheque exists. It's not as historic as the Lyric in Blacksburg or as fancy as the AFI Silver in DC, but it's comfortable, and it shows a decent amount of stuff I'm interested in. Vancouver honestly has a pretty impressive non-mainstream film scene: the Cinematheque, the more upscale VIFF Theatre, and the more... pop-culture-y, I guess, Rio. Plus the Cineplex in International Village mall that shows random foreign films.
Potential post-xmas schedule below, so I have it written down and can stop saying "wait what am i doing again?"
( A lot of movies )
Of those: I quite want to see Blue Velvet (seen once, basically no memory of it), Lost Highway (seen at least twice, fuzzy memories), Mulholland Drive (never seen; sounds like a more coherent Lost Highway), and The Elephant Man (never seen; supposedly Very Very Good). I have some interest in Wild At Heart (Lynch directing Nicolas Cage?) and Inland Empire (more Lynchian surrealism; might be more than I want all at once). I have pretty much no interest in Dune (ugh), Fire Walk With Me (ugh, though for different reasons; also, seen it), Eraserhead (from what I've heard I do not need that look into David Lynch's id), and The Straight Story (meh). I do not have it in me to watch eighteen hours of Twin Peaks in four days, though if I did I'd probably also watch Fire Walk With Me. Also no interest in the short films (see above re Eraserhead), and besides those are already over and done.
I'm so glad the Cinematheque exists. It's not as historic as the Lyric in Blacksburg or as fancy as the AFI Silver in DC, but it's comfortable, and it shows a decent amount of stuff I'm interested in. Vancouver honestly has a pretty impressive non-mainstream film scene: the Cinematheque, the more upscale VIFF Theatre, and the more... pop-culture-y, I guess, Rio. Plus the Cineplex in International Village mall that shows random foreign films.
Potential post-xmas schedule below, so I have it written down and can stop saying "wait what am i doing again?"
( A lot of movies )