Mullholland Drive

[Reinhold]

it all plays so much better in the film... it's one of my favorite films but i'd pass on it if i saw it like this too.

[Sleepless]

Lynch to build real-life Club Silencio in Paris. It's going to be part-concert hall, part-restaurant, part-library and part-cinema.

[SiliasRuby]

A reason to go back to Paris. Yipeeee!

[cronopio 2]

he's becoming the new Alejandro Jodorowsky. i fucking hate Jodorowsky.

[mogwai]

When did the filmmaking take a backseat in his car?

[Jeremy Blackman]

I think he's exited the car.

I'm still patiently hopeful, though.

[mogwai]

I think he and Quentin switched seats.

[MacGuffin]

David Lynch Opens Paris Nightclub
The auteur designed the members-only club based on a location in his film "Mulholland Drive."
Source: THR

David Lynch is already a filmmaker, television director, musician, visual artist and producer. Now he can add nightclub designer and owner to his long list of accomplishments.

Lynch opened a members-only club at 142, Rue Monmartre in Paris called Silencio on Wednesday. Lynch designed the entire space, based on the club from his film Mulholland Drive.

Lynch, who did not attend the opening, said he spent two years creating the space. The furniture is 1950s inspired, and The Guardian describes the place as "somewhere between nirvana, a classy Cincinatti cocktail bar circa 1975, and Goldie's mouth." Lynch designed the furniture in collaboration with designer Raphael Navot.

"Silencio is something dear to me," Lynch told The Guardian. "I wanted to create an intimate space where all the arts could come together."

Lynch's only other non-arts related business is his own line of special organic blend coffees, which are available on his website.





http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/aug/31/david-lynch-disco-paris

[mogwai]

Proof the he has far too much time on his hands.

[Lottery]

Just want to say that the performance Naomi Watts gives in this film is one of my favourite female performances.

[WorldForgot]

Roderick Heath pens an essay on Mulholland Dr. originally published 11 days after his passing.

Lynch, born in Montana, had moved around the United States with his family, as his father, a research scientist employed by the government, moved from post to post, spending the bulk of his teen years in Virginia. Lynch later recalled having, despite the repeated moves, a rather idyllic childhood, and his art, of course, became preoccupied with depicting and conceiving the discovery of the existence of the teeming strangeness and threat in the world.

[...]

Despite all his more high-falutin' allegiances and associations, Lynch was every bit as much a member of the Movie Brat generation in terms of his preoccupations and imaginative spurs as, say, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, or John Carpenter, and crucially similar to them in fundamental ways, even as his expressive modes and appeal jumped the guard rails into different artistic methods and motifs: somehow Lynch managed to be as American as apple pie whilst also channelling artistic modes utterly at odds with convention. Like Spielberg he was compelled by the theme of the suburban quotidian in American life being upended by squalls of chaos and threat and the roar of the semi-suppressed id. Like Carpenter his suburbs are riddled with emanations from a reality-fracturing supernatural beyond. Like Lucas he contended with the tension between rebellion and conformity, and often couched it in terms of a battle between the monstrous father figure and the ardent but tempted youth. Lucas was perhaps being a little more canny and attentive than it seemed when he offered the chance to direct Star Wars – Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983) to Lynch, who chose to do Dune instead. I could even go so far to say that Mulholland Drive is to Blue Velvet what Lucas's Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999-2005) was to his original triptych – playing with the same essential ideas, story, and archetypes, but delving more deeply into a sense of social and political context as the backdrop to a revision of the original myth, full of evil empires and puppet-masters, golems and dark mages of backroom machinations, and also where the now the hero is also the villain.