Wednesday, August 01, 2007
(11:53 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Ranking David Lynch Movies
Tonight is the end of the Siskel Center's David Lynch retrospective. They are showing Mulholland Dr. at 6:30, and I'm planning to attend. In the last month, then, I will have seen all of the canonically "David Lynch" movies except Inland Empire (the handheld camera work deterred me from seeing it in the theater). I've noticed in various comment threads that people have really strong feelings about the relative quality of Lynch films, but also that there does not appear to be any well-defined conventional wisdom on the matter.If there's one thing that blog comments are good for, it's generating consensus on controversial issues, and so I figured that we could hash out the ranking among ourselves. (Since very few people have seen Inland Empire, I say that we should provisionally leave it out of consideration.) Here is a chronological list of what most would consider to be the true "David Lynch films":
- Eraserhead
- Blue Velvet
- Wild at Heart
- Lost Highway
- Mulholland Dr.
