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Revisiting Lynch – Part Six: INLAND EMPIRE, Unmade Projects and Crazy Clown Time

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In the early part of this century, Lynch spent a lot of time putting together his website David Lynch.com. Embracing the internet and the opportunities his own website afforded him, Lynch would make his own shorts available via this medium as well as the weird sitcom Rabbits and animated series Dumbland.  Lynch also branched out [...]




Revisiting Lynch – Part Five: Going STRAIGHT to MULHOLLAND DRIVE

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For his next trick David Lynch changed tack and shifted gears completely to tell the true story of Alvin Straight, a man who travelled across America to visit his estranged and ailing brother…on a lawnmower. The film was made independently based on a screenplay from Lynch’s frequent collaborator Mary Sweeney and even filmed chronologically along [...]




Revisiting Lynch – Part Four: Fire Walk With Backlash and 21st Century Noir

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With the series over and having made a decision to not leave Twin Peaks just yet, David Lynch set about making a prequel to the TV series as part of a newly signed four picture deal with production company CIBY 2000. Much of the cast would be reprising their roles from the series to tell [...]




Revisiting Lynch – Part Three: American Surrealism Goes Mainstream with Twin Peaks and Wild At Heart

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Perhaps the thing that David Lynch is best known for in the mainstream is the television series Twin Peaks which ran from summer 1990 until spring 1991. When it debuted the series was huge, I mean huge. It infected all areas of popular culture and was like the Lost of its day with people hotly [...]




Revisiting Lynch – Part Two: The Lows of Dune and the Highs of Blue Velvet

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Thanks to the critical success of The Elephant Man, Lynch hoped next to get his long gestating Ronnie Rocket off the launch pad. Sadly due to the near collapse of American Zoetrope, Francis Ford Coppola’s production outfit, the project was shelved. Lynch then next had the opportunity to direct Return of the Jedi but famously [...]




Revisiting Lynch- Part One: Early Life, Eraserhead and Elephant Men

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Few filmmakers have had as profound an effect on me as director David Lynch. When I was exposed to Twin Peaks during its initial run back in late 1990 my mind was blown out the back of my head by the possibilities of what film and television could be. For many it was first seeing [...]




Wild At Heart – Blu-ray Review

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Sailor (Nicolas Cage) has just been released after a two-year stretch for manslaughter and is picked up outside the prison gates by Lula (Laura Dern), who has been desperately awaiting his release. They set off across the southern states of the US, heading for California despite Sailor’s parole restrictions and relatively unaware that Lula’s mother [...]




Eraserhead – DVD Review

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Henry (Jack Nance) is beset by problems. In a harshly industrial environment he is troubled by disturbing visions that are not a lot milder than his “real” life. His girlfriend has given birth prematurely to a mutated creature that will not stop crying, her mother seems not to like him but then suddenly nuzzles into [...]




The HeyUGuys UK DVD/Blu-Ray Release Round-Up – 4th June

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Last week saw the release of 2011’s Oscar-favourite The Artist, alongside two other acclaimed indie films of the year in Martha Marcy May Marlene and Like Crazy. This week brings a different mix to the shelves, with Ralph Fiennes’ directorial debut, Coriolanus, topping the list. Continuing on from last week, too, Play are releasing a [...]




Win a copy of the Limited Edition David Lynch Blu-ray Box Set

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This is perhaps one of my favourite competitions we’ve ever run on HeyUGuys. If I could enter I would, but I can’t – but you can! To celebrate Universal Picture Centennial Anniversary year and the release of a Limited Edition David Lynch Box Set out on 4th June, containing six of David Lynch’s classic films [...]




Exclusive Interview with Tomboy Director – Céline Sciamma

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In June a little-known film called Tomboy premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival to overwhelmingly positive reviews. Directed by Céline Sciamma, Tomboy centers on Laure (Zoé Héran), a 10-year-old girl who, after moving to a new neighbourhood with her parents and younger sister, pretends to be a boy to make friends, unaward of the hurt [...]




David Lynch Returns With Music Opus, Crazy Clown Time

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Music has always been integral in the work of director David Lynch. From the brooding, jazz-infused scores by regular musical collaborator Angelo Badalamenti, to the innocent Americana pop ditties juxtaposed with scenes of a disturbing and menacing nature, Lynch has always managed to conjure up an evocative atmosphere through his soundtracks. It may come as [...]




Stunning Dune Poster Worms Its Way Online

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The intended remake of Frank Herbert’s legendary sci-fi novel Dune may have bitten the dust for now, but here’s a beautiful piece of poster art to console fans for the moment. Created by artist Kevin Tong, it’s a re-imagining of David Lynch’s 1984 version of the book, and it’s a fantastic, abstract-y ensemble piece which [...]




Dune is Dead at Paramount

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The sad, if somewhat inevitable news has come through that Paramount has pulled the plug on their epic four-year attempt to bring a new version of Frank Herbert’s celebrated sci-fi fiction novel, Dune, to the big screen. The rights to the property have now lapsed and the studio has chosen not to continue in their [...]




Masters of Cinema Book Review

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Cahiers du cinema should need no introduction and this new series of books come to us under their banner from Phaidon Press; ten books, ten directors named Masters of cinema and a more perfect Christmas present for the cinephile in your life I could not imagine. I’m familiar with each of the ten directors here [...]




Will Another Adaptation of Dune Bite the Dust?

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The journey from page to screen for popular works of fiction has always proved a challenging one, and classic sci-fi tale Dune is no exception. Deadline is reporting that Paramount (the studio who currently has the rights to Frank Herbert’s best-selling novel) will be done with the material by next spring if it hasn’t managed [...]




HeyUGuys IMDb250 Project – Week 38

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The IMDb250. A list of the top 250 films as ranked by the users of the biggest Internet movie site on the web. It is based upon the ratings provided by the users of the Internet Movie Database, which number into the millions. As such, it’s a perfect representation of the opinions of the movie [...]




My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done Review

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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done is based on the true story of a man who killed his mother very shortly after rehearsing for Orestes, a Greek play famous for its matricidal themes. The film opens with the police, led by Hank (Willem Dafoe), arriving on the scene of the murder of Mrs. [...]




Mulholland Drive Blu-ray Review

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The Studio Canal Collection’s Blu-ray of Mulholland Drive was always going to be a pleasure to watch. The film is not as divisive as Lynch’s later Inland Empire, nor as suffocating as Lost Highway and its place on  numerous top 10 films of the decade lists is well deserved. Some may find its narrative shifting [...]




Why I’ll Never Watch a Film on a Phone

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Although the ability to watch films on phones or pocket sized devices has been around for a while, the choice to watch a film on a phone again became a hot topic following the announcement of the new iPhone. Speaking to friends/film lovers I was pretty shocked at how many said that they were more [...]