Indieville : David Lynch

You should see "The Box."

IFC.com - Indie Eye — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:00:00 GMT

In an interview right here on IFC.com last week, Richard Kelly ("Donnie Darko," "Southland Tales") claimed his new movie "The Box" -- which came out last Friday -- was intended to be more linear and commercial, paving the way for future studio work. The fact that Kelly actually believes this is tribute to the fact that he's living in another world, possibly one of the many alternate universes that always seem to pop up in his movies. The film I saw in a nearly deserted...(read more)

David Lynch explains himself.

IFC.com - Indie Eye — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:58:00 GMT

David Lynch has an exhibition up at the Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris. Not in Paris? Writer Dennis Cooper has a useful round-up for the rest of us. On the outside are 11 windows about "Machines, Abstraction and Women," some involving 3-D elements -- Lynch is a big fan of the Alioscopy 3-D process, which he thinks could revolutionize 3-D home viewing technology. On the inside is an exhibition called "I See Myself," with Lynch's seven-year-old-comic strip images...(read more)

Advertising is the new music video

IFC.com - Indie Eye — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:32:13 GMT

Shane Meadows is a remarkably pragmatic director. This afternoon -- probably already past, for any UK readers -- Meadows will appear at London's Nokia store to hype up a promotional stunt tied in to the London Film Festival. Aspiring filmmakers are invited to submit a 90-minute short on Nokia's behalf showing "what being connect in 2009 means to you." First prize gets you the (ambiguously worded) "chance" to work on Nokia's next ad campaign and airfare/tickets for...(read more)

Spike Jonze, Jason Reitman and the fearsome third.

IFC.com - Indie Eye — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:45:30 GMT

There's two good profiles published in the last few days about polar opposite Great White Hopes of Hollywood film. The New York Times profiles Spike Jonze in anticipation of his adaptation of Maurice Sendak's "Where The Wild Things Are"; Anthony Breznican tackles Jason Reitman for USA Today in advance of "Up In The Air"'s premiere in Toronto. As befits the man, the Reitman profile is competent and occasionally absorbing, but basically pedestrian; Saki Knafo's take...(read more)

Herzog/Lynch > Herzog/Ferrara.

IFC.com - Indie Eye — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:05:00 GMT

The cracktastic footage and ongoing directorial snippiness have made "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," Werner Herzog's maybe remake of Abel Ferrara's 1992 drama, one of the most anticipated films set to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival (though it'll first premiere at Venice). And who could outdo Bavaria's finest but the man himself? The recently unveiled trailer for the other Herzog film on the Toronto slate, "My Son, My Son, What Have Ye...(read more)

David Lynch present Jess.

IFC.com - Indie Eye — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:37:38 GMT

Interview Project, the latest web experiment from David Lynch, launches today, a "121 part documentary series" made up of three and a half minute interviews with different subjects around the country. Lynch's son Austin and Jason S. led a team of filmmakers who plucked up subjects who, one assumes, just looked like they'd have interesting things to say. The first interviewee, Jess, is a leathery 64-year-old they found in Needles, CA (a town I'll forever associate with Snoopy's...(read more)

In the works: David Lynch's new web series.

IFC.com - Indie Eye — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:44:37 GMT

In the works: David Lynch has signed with digital media company On Networks to make a new web series! Unfortunately, it'll be based on his book "Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness and Creativity," so it's best to be ready for more transcendental meditation rantings than strange narratives. Lynch has offered up online videos before on the members only section of his website, including his animated series "Dumbland," the first two episodes of which can also...(read more)

"Oh, Lynch is way weirder than I am."

IFC.com - Indie Eye — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:16:47 GMT

The world in quotes: "Oh, Lynch is way weirder than I am. That's obvious." --David Cronenberg weighs in on the eternal question of which David is weirder, at Defamer. "You know how there's no Asian American players in the NBA yet? There are Asians -- Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi -- but no Asian American has yet broken that barrier. My theory is that that guy exists or did exist who had the natural ability and the physiology and everything, but his parents were so fixated on him playing...(read more)