David Lynch: The Man from Another Place (Icons)
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (784 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0544343751 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"and it was very well-written and fun to read" according to Dennis Fleming. I already know quite a bit about David Lynch. I made a film once in which I put a dedication to him in the credits. This book brought some new information to me, and it was very well-written and fun to read. I learned something very interesting about his transition from painting to film art. I won't spoil it, but it's put me on a hunt for a piece of his art, which I didn't know about. It'll b. "As a person he seems to like to be a mysterious as the characters he creates" according to C. L. Wilson. The book was interesting because it put a lot of his work I'd seen years ago in context. On the other hand I don't think I understand many aspects of him process in making the films any better than I did before. As a person he seems to like to be a mysterious as the characters he creates.. Nice work there, Lim It seems as if even some of us so-called Lynchians can enjoy a concise, uncluttered overview, and my how the young web-heads might need this. Kudos, boyo. (P.S. not in bad faux-Lynch voice: I do think Nochimson has him beat on "Inland Empire"---though that "fall of man" bit is right up my alley.)
At once a pop culture icon, cult figure, and film industry outsider, master filmmaker David Lynch and his work defy easy definition. Dredged from his subconscious mind, Lynch’s work is primed to act on our own subconscious, combining heightened, contradictory emotions into something familiar but inscrutable. And accordingly, this is not a book that seeks to decode his art or annotate his life—to dispel the strangeness of the Lynchian—so much as one that offers complementary ways of seeing and understanding one of the most distinctive bodies of work in modern cinema. No less than his art, Lynch’s life also evades simple categorization, encompassing pursuits as a musician, painter, photographer, carpenter, entrepreneur, and vocal proponent of Transcendental Meditation.David Lynch: The Man from Another Place, Dennis Lim’s remarkably smart and concise book, proposes several lenses through which to view Lynch and his work: through the age-old mysteries of the uncanny and the sublime, through the creative energies of surrealism and postmodernism, through ideas of America and theories of good and evil. Lynch himself often warns against overinterpretation. Its spirit is true to its su
His movies, obsessions, studio hassles, and personal life are all revealed in a smart, readable analysis by author Dennis Lim, who makes for the perfect film shrink.” —John Waters“David Lynch’s brilliance as an artist is further illuminated by the laser intelligence of Dennis Lim’s commentary. Lynch's eyes, blood is poetry, a murky night is crystal clear.” —Apichatpong Weerasethakul, director of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives“Dennis Lim's crystalline book packs fascinating Lynchian biographical minutiae and revelatory production anecdotes into astonishingly lucid yet lyrical takes o
Dennis Lim is a writer and film curator in New York City. A former film editor and critic at the Village Voice, he is also the editor of The Village Voice Film Guide: 50 Years of Movies from Classics to Cult Hits (2009).. He is currently the director of programming at the Film Society of Lincoln Center