David Lynch’s TV commercials (2017)

https://lwlies.com/articles/david-lynch-tv-commercials/

by prismatic • 7 years ago

180 28 7 years ago

The "Parisienne cigarettes" ad is near identical to parts of Twin Peaks Season 3, "got a light?"

Yeah, I was about to comment about this one. The set is very similar to the "convenience store" as it appears in The Return (if not exactly the same).

wwright2• 7 years ago

The Return is full of shots that are very reminiscent of his past works; there’s multiple nighttime highway shots that look a lot like Lost Highway, for example.

pmoriarty• 7 years ago

David Lynch also made a little known TV series called On the Air.[1]

At its best it was full of black humor and characteristic Lynchian weirdness.

Here are a couple of my favorite episodes: [2], [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Air_%28TV_series%29

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtCMq1IKYTs

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueL4ebNq6mU

viburnum• 7 years ago

I haven’t seen that for 25 years. Thanks for posting. I loved it so much back then.

geden• 7 years ago

So good and so underrated.

jahlove• 7 years ago

I was going to say that "Opium" wouldn't fly as a perfume name in 2019, but apparently Yves Saint Laurent still sells it:

https://www.yslbeautyus.com/fragrance/womens-fragrances/opiu...

grandsui• 7 years ago

I own one of their Opium cologne for men. It smells _really_ nice.

pgreenwood• 7 years ago

David Lynch Cooks Quinoa is one of my favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSP-ewdJYJc

aidenn0• 7 years ago

WTF did I just watch...

If I ever get a time machine I'm going to go back in time, get Julia Child and have Lynch direct a remake of The French Chef.

I can think of no better, nor higher, use of such a device.

teh_klev• 7 years ago

That is tremendous.

"Just sitting taking a smoke, thinking of all those little quinoas bubbling away in that pan"

rdtsc• 7 years ago

The description of the train at night, stopping in Yugoslavia, was amazing. So many details, you can almost see him imagining a movie scene right there.

"Moths were flipping and flying like frogs. Frog moths, were pulling themselves out of the earth..."

Those who watched Twin Peaks: The Return might recognize the connection between the 8th episode and the frog moths.

xenospn• 7 years ago

Fun fact: George Lucas approached David Lynch to direct The Return of the Jedi, and was turned down.

[1] https://lynch.fandom.com/wiki/Return_of_the_Jedi

LaserDiscMan• 7 years ago

David Cronenberg was also offered Return of the Jedi, but declined, so we got Videodrome and The Dead Zone instead.

weare138• 7 years ago

Another fun fact: David Lynch also used to publish an underground comic strip called "The Angriest Dog in the World".

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/david_lynchs_memorably_p...

http://www.lynchnet.com/angrydog/

aazaa• 7 years ago

Shortly after, Lynch directed his own version of a space opera / sci-fi film: Dune (1984)

codesushi42• 7 years ago

So it was for the best.

gordon_freeman• 7 years ago

I still remember the vivid and strange experience when I watched Lynch's masterpiece TV show 'Twin Peaks'. Just an amazing experience! I have also enjoyed his films such as 'Blue Velvet' and 'Mulholland Drive'. When watching Lynch's shows and movies I feel his creations are similar to that of Stanley Kubrick.

ekianjo• 7 years ago

Twin Peaks season 1 for part of it. Season 2 of TP Lynch was mostly out of the project. Season 3 had some very, very good moments (gotta light, but also the coin flipping scene), but I am still on the fence on how good it was to close the series.

shantly• 7 years ago

I'm still disappointed they didn't find a way to work Billy Zane into S3 at all. Even for a scene or two, haha. Shame about Bowie—to put it mildly, and not just for the show—but they managed alright.

S3's a real two-watcher, and I've only watched it once so far. Haunting nonetheless. Anything that sticks with you past the credits is better than average, I'd say, and it definitely qualifies. It's not satisfying, exactly, but it plays at satisfying, at times.

Hm. I really gotta re-watch that one.

emmelaich• 7 years ago

If you like the weirdness, also see his (first film?) Eraserhead.

Also Rabbits is disturbing and unsettling. But not entertaining for long.

crispyambulance• 7 years ago

Mulholland Drive, hell yes. The diner scene was unforgettable!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UozhOo0Dt4o

So ridiculous but so good.

aasasd2• 7 years ago

“I think that horror following technology in its development is a dead end. We had horror films about TV, now there are films about the web, but in fifty years only scholars of culture will look at them. Meanwhile, people who want to be scared will still watch the scene from Mulholland Drive with the bum peeking around the corner. But that scene could equally be filmed in 1930 or 2030.” (Alexey Karaulov)

wwright2• 7 years ago

If you haven’t seen yet, Twin Peaks got a third season back in 2017. It’s a lot more like Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire than the original show, but personally, I think it was one of the most amazing shows I ever watched :-)

Japhy_Ryder• 7 years ago

Don't forget Lost Highway. But nothing compares to Mulholland Dr.

aasasd2• 7 years ago

Lynch's ads actually made me understand his style much better. For all his otherworldly weirdety and teasing of Hollywood, his 90s work looks rooted in 90s tv. It's like I watch tv dramas or ads, but with Lynch's twist—just like Pedro Almodóvar's films are 80s/90s tv with Pedro Almodóvar's twist.

TrackerFF• 7 years ago

A key component to the "feel" of Lynch is the music by Angelo Badalamenti. He really ties up the work.

David Lynch’s TV commercials (2017)

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