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Hiroshima Mon Amour 1959
The weight of your memory brings me to my knees. How I wish I could turn away from the visions of you. In anguish am I when remembering your story; remembering that you are not here. Nor does the me that existed with you still breathe. So I mourn him too. To remember burns as if my heart were replaced by a nuclear core...
But oh to forget. The thought of forgetting your song fills me with a seeping dread…
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Lynch (one) 2007
Within this documentary you find more answers to Lynch's art than you'll find in any analysis or explanation by outsiders to any one of the films.
Watching the man argue with Laura Dern on the phone and then sit in silence trying to figure out what to do now. Watching the man go to his local workshop, greet a man there and turn down the offer of coffee before he bandsaws in half a clay dog for an 8 foot…
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Eraserhead 1977
The fear of the creative powers in your loins. The fear of settling; of commitment. The fear of giving your life, your space and your energy to another person. The fear of picking the 'right one' and the chain that bounds you to your choice. The fear of producing desperately fragile new life with that person and having to attend to it. The fear of impressing in-laws. The fear of fucking everything up by not understanding how to carve new…
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The Straight Story 1999
David Lynch lives forever.
Time passes by too fast for us to even notice it and the world seems set on beating it to the finish line. Beauty exists in patience. Life lives in the breeze stroking through leaves, not in the gusts of the highway.
Isn't it beautiful that the stars we stared at as we lay on wet grass together in youth are the same ones above us right now... let us lay again.
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Men 2022
Strangely this is perhaps Garland’s most straightforward work to date and yet also his most unfocused. The allegorical narrative journey of Jessie Buckley’s Harper is very recognisable as a woman’s struggle under patriarchy but to claim that’s all this work offers is unfaithful. Garland throws at us themes of fertility, grief, trauma, mortality and the repetition of time complete with hints to both Christian, Greek and Pagan metaphors. He has previously described his works as “conversations rather than lectures” and…
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