Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

1992

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

when did the day with all its light turn into night? 
when all the world seemed to sing 
why, why did you go?
was it me? was it you? 
questions in a world of blue

thank you for everything, David. 💔

Mulholland Drive

2001

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

“come on, it’ll be just like in the movies! we’ll pretend to be someone else.” 

eventually, the dream has to end.

Eraserhead

1977

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

in heaven, everything is fine

really struck me this time how much this feels like it’s in direct conversation with The Return in its imagery and soundscape. so thrilling to observe that kind of dialogue between his first and final major works.

The Elephant Man

1980

★★★★½ Liked Rewatched

“never. oh, never. nothing will diethe stream flows, the wind blows, the cloud fleets, the heart beatsnothing will die.” 

it’s still hard for me to find the right words for how much Lynch’s ing has affected me. my favorite filmmaker, the single most important artist in my life. his work means the entire world to me for so many reasons, and just one of those is the beating heart of sincerity and comion that lies at the core of so much of his work. how lucky we were to have someone as kind and empathetic as him. i miss him so much.

The Straight Story

1999

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

a soul-cleansing, spiritually healing film for me. radiates with boundless warmth, empathy, and decency. makes me sob my eyes out. love it so much.

Blue Velvet

1986

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

“i can’t figure out if you’re a detective or a pervert.” 

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

1992

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

The saddest, most devastating movie ever made. Don’t think I’ll ever fully have the words to describe how this movie affects me. It hurts so much to watch, and yet it’s imbued with endless amounts of empathy and humanity despite how horrifying and crushing it is. I feel every single second of Laura’s pain. Surrounded by a town of people who love her but don’t truly know her, holding on to trauma that no person should ever have to hold…

Mulholland Drive

2001

★★★★★ Liked 2

My favorite movie. There’s just nothing else that makes me feel the way this does. It engages me, haunts me, moves me, mystifies me like no other film. It’s been talked about to death, and yet it’s still possible to get lost for hours exploring the depths of this. Choosing to believe in a constructed dream world because it’s too painful to face reality. Fucking devastating. What else can I even say? Naomi Watts just crushes me every time in…

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

1992

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

[35mm]

“your Laura disappeared. it’s just me now.” 

my favorite movie of all time. just overwhelming to see in theaters.

Twin Peaks

1989

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

[Seasons 1 + 2]

The collected Twin Peaks is forever and always my favorite work of art in any medium. Even with the rough patch in the middle of season 2, I still can’t give it anything less than a perfect rating. Lynch would ascend to even greater heights in FWWM and The Return, but there’s still nothing quite like the original series. For me, this is the definitive exploration of grief and its ripple effects across an entire community.…

Wild at Heart

1990

★★★★½ Liked Watched

Finally corrected one of my only remaining Lynch blindspots. One of the most deliriously entertaining of all his works, even if it’s also a little messier than his absolute best. As wonderfully eccentric, deranged, and wildly unpredictable as you’d expect. So many memorable scenes and performances. Cage and Lynch are an absurdly perfect match for each other’s wavelengths, Dern is at her career best, and Dafoe gives what has to be one of the creepiest performances I’ve ever seen. An all-timer of an end credits sequence, too. Loved this.

The Straight Story

1999

★★★★★ Liked Watched

“That is one thing that I can’t shake loose. All my buddies’ faces are still young. And the thing is, the more years I have, the more they’ve lost”.