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Room to Dream

David Lynch,Kristine McKenna
Room to Dream Book PDF

Author : David Lynch,Kristine McKenna
Publisher : Random House
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780399589201

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Room to Dream by David Lynch,Kristine McKenna Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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 “Insightful . . . an impressively industrious and comprehensive account of Lynch’s career.”—The New York Times Book Review 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 personal reflections riff off biographical sections written by close collaborator Kristine McKenna and based on more than one hundred new interviews with surprisingly candid ex-wives, family members, actors, agents, musicians, and colleagues in various fields who all have their own takes on what happened. Room to Dream is a landmark book that offers a onetime all-access pass into the life and mind of one of our most enigmatic and utterly original living artists. With insights into . . . Eraserhead The Elephant Man Dune Blue Velvet Wild at Heart Twin Peaks Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me Lost Highway The Straight Story Mulholland Drive INLAND EMPIRE Twin Peaks: The Return Praise for Room to Dream “A memorable portrait of one of cinema’s great auteurs . . . provides a remarkable insight into [David] Lynch’s intense commitment to the ‘art life.’ ”—The Guardian “This is the best book by and about a movie director since Elia Kazan’s A Life (1988) and Michael Powell’s A Life in Movies (1986). But Room to Dream is more enchanting or appealing than those classics. . . . What makes this book endearing is its chatty, calm account of how genius in America can be a matter-of-fact defiance of reality that won’t alarm your dog or save mankind. It’s the only way to dream in so disturbed a country.”—San Francisco Chronicle

David Lynch

Dennis Lim
David Lynch Book PDF

Author : Dennis Lim
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780544343757

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David Lynch by Dennis Lim Pdf

A revealing look at the life and work of David Lynch, one of the most enigmatic and influential filmmakers of our time Every frame of David Lynch's work, from the '70s midnight movie Eraserhead to the groundbreaking TV series Twin Peaks, to the digital-video DIY feat Inland Empire, bears his unmistakable imprint. But the paradox of the Lynchian is that it's easy to recognize and hard to define. Lynch is a master of the inscrutable gesture, the opaque symbol. His career evades the usual categories: pop culture icon and subject of academic study, cult figure and industry outsider. He's a Renaissance man—musician, painter, photographer, carpenter, entrepreneur—and a vocal proponent or transcendental meditation. Dennis Lim, the newly minted director of Cinematheque programming at Lincoln Center, is a skilled cinephile wary of over-interpretation.David Lynch preserves the strangeness of the Lynch's universe and offers a personal meditation on the most distinctive filmmaker in modern American culture. It leaves what Lynch likes to call "room to dream," honoring the allure of the unknown and the unknowable.

David Lynch

Stijn Huijts
David Lynch Book PDF

Author : Stijn Huijts
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783791387345

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David Lynch by Stijn Huijts Pdf

New in paperback, this revelatory book features rarely seen multimedia works by the revered cult filmmaker David Lynch showing how he applies his powerful imagination and visual language across genres. David Lynch has always been in the spotlight as a filmmaker, directing some of the most iconic movies ever made, but as a visual artist, he is less widely known. Lynch delights in the physicality of painting and likes to stimulate all the senses in his work. This new paperback edition brings together Lynch's paintings, photography, drawings, sculpture and installation, and stills from his films. Many of these works reveal the dark underpinnings behind Lynch's often-macabre movies. Others explore his fascination with texture and collage. Throughout, Lynch's characteristic style--surreal, stylish, and even humorous--shines through. An introduction by music journalist and Lynch biographer Kristine McKenna, along with a thought- provoking essay by curator Stijn Huijts, offers fascinating new information and perspectives on Lynch's life and career. This book reveals an unexplored facet of Lynch's oeuvre and affirms that he is as brilliant a visual artist as he is a filmmaker.

The Impossible David Lynch

Todd McGowan
The Impossible David Lynch Book PDF

Author : Todd McGowan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0231139551

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The Impossible David Lynch by Todd McGowan Pdf

Todd McGowan studies Lynch's talent for blending the bizarre and the normal to emphasise the odd nature of normality itself. In Lynch's movies, fantasy becomes a means through which the viewer is encouraged to build a revolutionary relationship with the world.

The Philosophy of David Lynch

William Devlin
The Philosophy of David Lynch Book PDF

Author : William Devlin
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813133966

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The Philosophy of David Lynch by William Devlin Pdf

From his cult classic television series Twin Peaks to his most recent film Inland Empire (2006), David Lynch is best known for his unorthodox narrative style. An award-winning director, producer, and writer, Lynch distorts and disrupts traditional storylines and offers viewers a surreal, often nightmarish perspective. His unique approach to filmmaking has made his work familiar to critics and audiences worldwide, and he earned Academy Award nominations for Best Director for The Elephant Man (1980), Blue Velvet (1986), and Mulholland Drive (2001). Lynch creates a new reality for both characters and audience by focusing on the individual and embracing existentialism. In The Philosophy of David Lynch, editors William J. Devlin and Shai Biderman have compiled an impressive list of contributors to explore the philosophy at the core of the filmmaker’s work. Lynch is examined as a postmodern artist, and the themes of darkness, logic, and time are discussed in depth. Other prominent issues in Lynch’s films, such as Bad faith and freedom, ethics, politics, and religion, are also considered. Investigating myriad aspects of Lynch’s influential and innovative work, The Philosophy of David Lynch provides a fascinating look at the philosophical underpinnings of the famous cult director.

The Cinema of David Lynch

Erica Sheen,Annette Davison
The Cinema of David Lynch Book PDF

Author : Erica Sheen,Annette Davison
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 190336485X

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The Cinema of David Lynch by Erica Sheen,Annette Davison Pdf

This is a study of one of Hollywood's most popular and critically acclaimed directors. Films discussed include 'Blue Velvet', 'Wild at Heart', 'The Straight Story' and 'Mulholland Drive'.

David Lynch

David Lynch
David Lynch Book PDF

Author : David Lynch
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1604732377

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David Lynch by David Lynch Pdf

Interviews with the acclaimed director of the films Dune, Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man, Mulholland Drive, and Inland Empire and the hit TV series Twin Peaks

Catching the Big Fish

David Lynch
Catching the Big Fish Book PDF

Author : David Lynch
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-27
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781101043301

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Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch Pdf

In this "unexpected delight,"* filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation. Now in a beautiful paperback edition, David Lynch's Catching the Big Fish provides a rare window into the internationally acclaimed filmmaker's methods as an artist, his personal working style, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation. Catching the Big Fish comes as a revelation to the legion of fans who have longed to better understand Lynch's personal vision. And it is equally compelling to those who wonder how they can nurture their own creativity. Catching Ideas Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful. I look for a certain kind of fish that is important to me, one that can translate to cinema. But there are all kinds of fish swimming down there. There are fish for business, fish for sports. There are fish for everything. Everything, anything that is a thing, comes up from the deepest level. Modern physics calls that level the Unified Field. The more your consciousness-your awareness-is expanded, the deeper you go toward this source, and the bigger the fish you can catch. --from Catching the Big Fish

The Women of David Lynch

Scott Ryan,David Bushman,Mädchen Amick,Charlotte Stewart,Lindsay Hallam,Melanie McFarland,Lindsey Bowden,Marisa C. Hayes,Hannah Klein,Philippa Snow
The Women of David Lynch Book PDF

Author : Scott Ryan,David Bushman,Mädchen Amick,Charlotte Stewart,Lindsay Hallam,Melanie McFarland,Lindsey Bowden,Marisa C. Hayes,Hannah Klein,Philippa Snow
Publisher : Fayetteville Mafia Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781949024036

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The Women of David Lynch by Scott Ryan,David Bushman,Mädchen Amick,Charlotte Stewart,Lindsay Hallam,Melanie McFarland,Lindsey Bowden,Marisa C. Hayes,Hannah Klein,Philippa Snow Pdf

David Lynch has been accused for decades of sexism and even misogyny in his work, due largely to frequent depictions of violence against women. Yet others see in Lynch's work the deification of the female, and actresses like Laura Dern and Naomi Watts jump at every opportunity to work with him. "He is the master of the juxtaposition of the creepy and the sweet, the sexual and the chaste," wrote W's Lynn Hirschberg. "And at the heart of this tense, intriguing friction, you will always find Lynch's women." The Women of Lynch is a deep, provocative dive into this paradox, featuring ten essays, thought pieces and impressionistic interpretations of Lynch's depiction of women on screen, by an eclectic array of accomplished female critics, scholars, performers, and writers, each tackling this vexing conundrum in her own unique way. The book also contains an interview with actress MÄdchen Amick (Shelly Johnson in Twin Peaks) where she gives first hand knowledge on what it is like to be a woman of Lynch. Lisa Hession interviews the original woman of Lynch, Charlotte Stewart (Eraserhead, Twin Peaks) about being the actress with longest active span of working with David Lynch. This is the first essay book about the work of David Lynch by all female writers. Readers will enjoy The Women of Lynch: A Collection of Essays. This book contains essays by: x. An Introduction by Philippa Snow 1. The Uncanny Electricity of David Lynch's Women by Leigh Kellmann Kolb 2. Women's Films: Melodrama and Women's Trauma in the Films of David Lynch by Lindsay Hallam 3. A Colorless Sky: On the Whiteness of Twin Peaks by Melanie McFarland 4. Warding off the Darkness with Coffee and Pie by Mallory O'Meara 5. "This is where we talk, Shelly." An Interview with MÄdchen Amick by Lindsey Bowden 6. Welcome to the Bipolar Silencio Club! by Hannah Klein 7. The Triple Goddess by Lauren Fox 8. Isabella Rossellini: The Shocking "Real" in Blue Velvet by Kathleen Fleming 9. Tea And Sympathy: Mrs. Kendal and The Elephant Man by Rebecca Paller 10. Jade: Ornamental Gem or Protective Talisman? A Character Study by Marisa C. Hayes 11. "Mary X Marks The Spot." An Interview with Charlotte Stewart by Lisa Hession 12. Impressions of Lynch: Journaling a Requiem by Mya McBriar Edited by David Bushman Concept by Scott Ryan Front Cover by Blake Morrow Art by Wayne Barnes & Hannah Fortune

David Lynch

David Lynch,Fondation Cartier
David Lynch Book PDF

Author : David Lynch,Fondation Cartier
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015070693976

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David Lynch by David Lynch,Fondation Cartier Pdf

"'The air is on fire' is the first exhibition to comprehensively present David Lynch's work as a visual artist. Created for the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain and shown in Paris from March 3 to May 27, 2007, it includes diverse forms of his artistic expression, culled from his extensive collection of his own artwork that dates back to 1965. Initially trained as a painter, he has continued to prolifically produce artwork - from paintings to photographs to drawings - throughout his career as a filmmaker, and has broadened his practice to include animation, music composition and sound production." - page [15]

David Lynch

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,Robert Cozzolino
David Lynch Book PDF

Author : Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,Robert Cozzolino
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520283961

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David Lynch by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,Robert Cozzolino Pdf

David Lynch is internationally renowned as a filmmaker, but it is less known that he began his creative life as a visual artist and has maintained a devoted studio practice, developing an extensive body of painting, prints, photography, and drawing. Featuring work from all periods of LynchÕs career, this book documents LynchÕs first major museum exhibition in the United States, bringing together works held in American and European collections and from the artistÕs studio. Much like his movies, many of LynchÕs artworks revolve around suggestions of violence, dark humor, and mystery, conveying an air of the uncanny. This is often conveyed through the addition of text, wildly distorted forms, and disturbances in the paint fields that surround or envelop his figures. While a few relate to his film projects, most are independent works of art that reveal a parallel trajectory. Organized in close collaboration with the artist, David Lynch: The Unified Field brings together ninety-five paintings, drawings, and prints from 1965 to the present, often unified by the recurring motif of the home as a site of violence, memories, and passion. Other works explore the odd, tender, and mincing aspects of relationships. Highlighting many works that have rarely been seen in public, including early work from his critical years in Philadelphia (1965Ð70), this catalog offers a substantial response to dealer Leo Castelli's comment when he enthusiastically viewed LynchÕs work in 1987, ÒI would like to know how he got to this point; he cannot be born out of the head of Zeus.Ó Published in association with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Jerry's Last Mission

Jerry Yellin
Jerry s Last Mission Book PDF

Author : Jerry Yellin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1737276240

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Jerry's Last Mission by Jerry Yellin Pdf

This the second edition of a book originally titled Of War and Weddings and it is about an American WWII fighter pilot who reconnects with war memories as he gets to know the Japanese family his son is about to marry into.

David Lynch

Colin Odell
David Lynch Book PDF

Author : Colin Odell
Publisher : Oldcastle Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781842433829

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David Lynch by Colin Odell Pdf

Internationally renowned, David Lynch is America's premier purveyor of the surreal, an artist whose work in cinema and television has exposed the world to his highly personalised view of society. This book examines his entire work, from the cult surrealism of his debut feature Eraserhead to his latest mystery, Inland Empire, considering the themes, motifs and stories behind his incredible works. In Lynch's world the mundane and the fantastical collide, often with terrifying consequences. It is a place where the abnormal is normal, where the respectable becomes sinister, where innocence is lost and redemption gained at a terrible price. And there's always music in the air. From the deserts of a distant world to an ordinary backyard, at the breakneck speed of Lost Highway or the sedate determination of The Straight Story, readers will experience amateur sleuths, messiahs, giants and dwarves, chanteuses, psychopaths, cherry pie and damn fine coffee. David Lynch is your guide to this other world... and this is your guide to David Lynch.

Images

David Lynch
Images Book PDF

Author : David Lynch
Publisher : Hyperion Books
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1994-12
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015032313846

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Images by David Lynch Pdf

Twin Peaks creator David Lynch offers his many fans the chance to see the peculiar, private land of Lynch--sketches that led to many of his famous film images, short pieces of fiction, personal artwork, and photos of his unusual obsessions (spark plugs, dental surgery, bald women). 200 b/w illustrations. Two 16-page 4-color inserts.

Lynch on Lynch

David Lynch,Chris Rodley
Lynch on Lynch Book PDF

Author : David Lynch,Chris Rodley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : 0571195482

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Lynch on Lynch by David Lynch,Chris Rodley Pdf

David Lynch erupted on to the cinema landscape with Eraserhead, establishing himself as one of the most original, imaginative and truly personal directors at work in contemporary cinema. He is a surrealist in the tradition of the great Spanish flm-maker, Luis Bunuel.