I've always been ambivalent about David Lynch as a film-maker, but now, when I guess his creative energy has more or less ebbed completely away (or is he still making interesting films? You tell me) perhaps it's time to look back on his career and celebrate his achievement. I feel bludgeoned into submission after years of denying his magic - he did make some great films. Erasorhead, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Dr. are all favourites, and The Straight Story is wondrous.
And, like Hitchcock, in retrospect it's not just the creepiness, the examination of life's dark underbelly and the murderous that emerge most strongly from Lynch's oeuvre, it's the beauty, the glamour and the emotional power as well. Let's hear it for David Lynch.
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