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film: eraserhead (1977) david lynch

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d: david lynch

s: jack nance

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074486/

This is one of my all time favourite films. Top 3 actually. The imagery and sound design is phenomenal. I, personally find it stimulating to the highest degree i know. The interpretive nature of the subject and it's presentation along with Lynch's tight lips about the production and methods used, all accumulate to a work of fine art.

Of the multitude of interpretations, there's an interesting one here:
http://www.geocities.com/~mikehartmann/papers/wolfe.html

What do you all think?

p.s. whilst this is a brilliant film on it's own, watching it while tripping is astonishing.
 
i can't believe that no one else has responded to this. i will write my full report later on when i have the minutes. for now- thumbs up
i would say this is something everyone should check out, at least once.
 
im going to have to give this one 4 stars. i have this theory that there isn't any uderlying metaphorical symbolism behind his films (which he says they are, and he also says that no interpretations of it that he's heard/read are anywhere near close to what it actually means) and he's just trying to confuse the fuck out of everyone. and if thats the case, mission accomplished david lynch!
 
he apparantly directs from his gut and whims. interesting and brave approach imo.

anyone else?
 
I wish he would let us in on how he constructed the baby in Eraserhead (one of Lynch's secrets).
 
Re: connor's post
There may be a single correct interpretation of his films in Lynch's mind, but I'm sure he also realizes that his films have a sort of focused ambiguity that allows many complete (and correct) interpretations of his films, when these interpretations are followed to their "logical" conclusions. I just watch his films with the same attention I give trance music or a dream, because they always hit better that way and seem to appeal to convoluded dream logic. Phew, I'll be quiet now.
 
i think a lot of people don't realize that a lot of this credit should go to frederick elmes cinematography in combination with lynch's vision. elmes made lynch and lynch made elmes, i suppose.

the fact that lynch did inland empire all by himself should stand witness to this. i've always been of the opinion that lynch's best work comes out of collaboration with other visionaries like elmes and frost.
 
it takes a right mood. very patient film. turn up the volume. it's the sound that make the biggest impact imo.

as i said in the first post, this film is mindblowing on psychs.


i've been living with my wife for close to three years now, and she still hasn't seen it, and i have two copies.
 
so this is one of the few david lynch films i have NOT seen. i'll definitely have to check it out.

i have a dvd with a bunch of his shorts on it and they are, simply put, disturbing. it takes some balls to make me feel uncomfortable via film, but he manages to do it at times with his claustrophobic moods and his awkward story lines. one thing i've heard about his films (more so about his full length films than his shorts) is that he bases them more around particular feelings than he does plots. whether or not that's true i'm not sure, but i heard it from a film geek i used to be good friends with (haven't seen him in about 3 years though :(). for instance... lost highway is supposedly based on the feeling of abandonment. like i said, i can't verify this and i can't say whether lynch has ever verified this, but it's what i was told and i can see a certain level of feasibility in it.
 
Impacto Profundo said:
it takes a right mood. very patient film. turn up the volume. it's the sound that make the biggest impact imo.

as i said in the first post, this film is mindblowing on psychs.


i've been living with my wife for close to three years now, and she still hasn't seen it, and i have two copies.
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I *HATED* the sound. Very depressing to me. :(
 
This was the first Lynch film I watched way back like freshman year of high school when copies were extremely rare. It is also probably the only film I had seen(even among many surrealist films) that completely immersed me in that dream head-space. Like the dreams I had when I was a little kid, real imaginative. Watching it I had felt like I was recalling all these little fragments of dreams I used to have.

I think it is really tough to judge a film like this because it is an art film and it is really easy to say 'oh well you have enough off kilter ideas that are loosely connected and you can make an Eraserhead' but I don't think you can. Just the process of making this film over 5 odd years, running an insane amount of rehearsals (according to Lynch) and just trying to make something this alienating also extremely personal. If this movie had been even slightly different I think all his subsequent films would have been completely skewed in some other strange direction.

Anyways I feel like I am using too many words and not really saying anything so I will just leave it at that, still one of my favorites and love putting new friends in front of it.
 
^lol totally! i probably lent my dvd to half the floor at my previous workplace, and almost every time it was returned with an odd look on their faces =D
 
I cant rate it

I enjoyed the film, but i found it to be a little boring.

That said, i felt like the film was trying to convey a feeling rather than a meaning. The entire time i was viewing the film i had a distinct feeling washing over me...a feeling of bleakness and also something indescribable. I think it is amazing for that reason. The sound was nuts...as well as the imagery.

i just cant rate it for some reason


and all you peeps who have watched this while tripping are crazy :D
 
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