Lynch on Lynch

Lynch, David; Rodley, Chris

ISBN 10: 0571178332 / ISBN 13: 9780571178339

Published by Faber & Faber, 1997

About this Item

This book has no rips or stains, but the pages are yellowed with age. The spine is tight and intact. There are no loose pages. The dust jacket has some bumping at the edges and there is a rip on the lower front, near the edge.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lynch on Lynch
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571178332
• ISBN 13: 9780571178339
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 6.5W x 9.75H x 1.25D inches 6.5 inches width by 9.75 inches height by 1.25 inches depth
• Weight: 17.637 ounces

About this title

Synopsis

In a series of interviews, the director discusses his personal vision in such movies as "Blue Velvet," "Wild at Heart," and "Eraserhead"

Review

You know David Lynch as the director of terminally weird movies such as Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, and Wild at Heart, as well as the bizarre and highly influential television series Twin Peaks. But did you know that it was Mel Brooks who gave him his first big break? That the idea for Blue Velvet grew out of a fantasy Lynch had about sneaking into a private room and learning the secret to a murder mystery? That Twin Peaks came about because co-creator Mark Frost was obsessed with Marilyn Monroe?

In Lynch on Lynch, a 250-page interview book, editor Chris Rodley does a superb job of getting Lynch to talk at length about the high and low points of his life and career. Their conversation covers his early work as a painter through the making of his major films of the 1980s, the fiasco of Dune ("It is what it is."), and the recent and very obscure Lost Highway ("I just *loved* this title.").

Lynch is particularly interesting when he talks about the creative process: "I don't want to give the impression that I sit around thinking up horrible things. I get all kinds of different ideas and feelings. If I'm lucky, they start organizing themselves into a story--then maybe some ideas come along that are too eerie, too violent, or too funny, and they don't fit that story. So you write them down and save them for two or three projects down the road. There's nowhere you can't go in a film--if you think of it, you can go there." Lynch on Lynch is a treat for Lynch fans of all shapes, sizes, and fetishes.