David Lynch
Author
Formats
Description
"An unprecedented look into the personal and creative life of the visionary auteur David Lynch, through his own words and those of his closest colleagues, friends, and family. In this unique hybrid of biography and memoir, David Lynch opens up for the first time about a life lived in pursuit of his singular vision, and the many heartaches and struggles he's faced to bring his unorthodox projects to fruition. Lynch's lyrical, intimate, and unfiltered...
3) Dune
Pub. Date
1998
Description
The saga of intergalactic warrior Paul Atreides, son of Duke Leto, who struggles with the native inhabitants of the dry planet Arrakis (Dune) to overthrow the terrible Baron Harkonnen and his family and control the special product of the planet, a mind-altering spice produced by giant sand worms.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
An absorbing portrait of the artist, as well as an intimate encounter with the man himself. From the privacy of his home and painting studio in the Hollywood Hills, a candid Lynch conjures people and places from his past, from his boyhood in Idaho and Virginia to his experiences at art school in Boston and Philadelphia to the beginnings of his filmmaking career in Los Angeles; in stories that unfold like scenes from his movies.
5) Crumb
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
A journey through the artistic genius and sexual obsession of R. Crumb, the creator of Zap comix, Mr. Natural and Fritz the cat. Crumb enters a territory as spooky as it is fascinating...a portrait of an artist as misanthrope and bad-boy visionary, as joker and sex maniac, and finally as hero.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Based on a true story about 73-year-old Alvin Straight who embarks on a dangerous and emotional journey to make amends with his 75-year-old brother Lyle before his brother dies. Alvin can no longer drive a car because of his eyesight and has to walk with 2 canes, but he climbs aboard his 1966 John Deere lawnmower and drives the 260-mile course from Laurens, Iowa to Mt. Zion, Wisconsin.
7) Dune
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Story of the desert planet Dune and a revolt against its evil controllers.
11) Blue velvet
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
A college student stumbles across a bizarre mystery and wants to know more. The strange world he's found lurking beneath his hometown picture-postcard veneer is about to become much stranger.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
"The body of a young girl (Laura Palmer) is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul"--Douglas Baptie, Internet Movie Database
13) Lynch/Oz
Series
Pub. Date
[2024].
Description
"The themes, images, and cultural vernacular of Victor Fleming's The Wizard of Oz continue to haunt David Lynch's filmography from his early short 'The Alphabet' to his television series Twin Peaks: The Return. Is Lynch trapped in the Land of Oz? If so, what can we learn about his body of work by closely examining how it intersects and communicates with that legendary fantasy? In turn, what do Lynch's films have to say about the enduring resonance...
14) Mulholland Dr
Series
Description
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
15) Lucky
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
The spiritual journey of a ninety year old atheist, and the quirky characters that inhabit his off-the-map desert town.
16) Wild at heart
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Two young lovers are on the run from her nasty mother.
Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.
17) Lost highway
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Fred Madison is a saxophonist who finds a video tape on his doorstep that shows the interior of his house. He becomes convinced that someone has broken in and calls the police. He finds another videotape showing him killing his wife. The police arrest for murdering his wife. In prison, he inexplicably morphs into a young man named Pete Dayton and begins living a completely different life. When Pete is released, his and Fred's paths begin to cross...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Join Keanu Reeves on a tour of the past and the future of filmmaking in Side by side. Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a groundbreaking evolution in the medium. Reeves explores the development of cinema and the impact of digital filmmaking via in-depth interviews with Hollywood masters.
20) Twin Peaks
Pub. Date
2007, c1990
Description
Follow FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper and Sheriff Harry S. Truman as they try to hunt down just who killed Laura Palmer in the sleepy town of Twin Peaks, Washington.