What are his essential movies? I've already seen Inland

>>79964032
Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive

also Eraserhead and Elephant Man

Blue Velvet
Eraserhead
Mulholland Drive
The Straight Story

Inland Empire is his masterpiece so anything else you watch will just be a diluted version of what you have already seen. I'd say just rewatch Inland Empire until you have complete mastery over it.

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>mfw convinced a group of girls in one of my lit classes to watch Lost Highway

Lost Highway

>>79964103
I don't think Lost Highway could be understood by any female. Definitely his most redpilled film.

>>79964103
>>79964108
R.I.P. Bill Paxton

>>79964153
But Bill Paxton wasn't in Lost Highway

FWWM > Mulholland Drive > Inland Empire > Wild At Heart > Lost Highway > The Straight Story > Blue Velvet > Eraserhead > The Elephant Man > Dune

Only Dune is inessential.

>>79964309
Didn't realize he made so few movies or I would've just watched them all.

>>79964309
>FWWM best
>Elephant Man second worst
Imagine being this wrong.

>>79964213
That's the joke, dumdum.

>>79964477
Not much of a fucking joke then

>>79964433
2bh he's more right than you are. Elephant Man is plebeiancore that indulges in appeal to entry level emotions. Fire Walk With Me would be my number 2 personally after Inland Empire but it's definitely at the top end of his filmography.

Watch Eraserhead last, his other films will seem quite dull by comparison.

>>79964535
>implying the fact that it's one of his most popular movies makes it less artistically valid

>>79964644
Lower barrier to entry = less sophisticated art.

>>79964433
The Elephant Man is a fine film, Lynch has just made far better.

You're hopeless if you don't like FWWM though.

>>79964032
all of them. it's not that many. just watch them all in chronological order.

>>79964032
>Masterpiece
Mulholland Drive
>Mandatory
Eraserhead
Blue Velvet
Elephant Man
>Worth Watching
Inland Empire
Lost Highway
Twin Peaks
>Watch if you really like Lynch
Everything else

>>79964108
Patricia Arquette was shit

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>>79965038
the deleted scenes of FWWM are better than FWWM itself.

>>79964032
Everything I wanted to see of lynch I saw with dune this man is a hack.

>>79965403

Dem titties tho bruh

>>79965484
they were nice but overall she was just horrible

>>79964103
>>79964108
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPEYsazrKIw

>>79965661
Absolut kinographia

stupid fucking hair

>>79965808
:(

>>79964309
Are you proud? Are you really, really proud of those contrarian opinions? Do you hold them really close to your heart?

>>79965808
rude D:<

>>79964535
>2bh he's more right than you are. Elephant Man is plebeiancore that indulges in appeal to entry level emotions.
plebeiancore doesn't have a scene like this in it, which is arguably his best scene in any of his films
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gADayU4DP9U

>>79965913
fuck off back to your reddit hugbox you stupid gay

>>79965808
Bullying Lynch is N O T allowed. He is a kind and gentle soul.

>>79965946
If you can't appreciate Eraserhead you're the leddit fag. Anyone who puts FWWM as their first favorite Lynch film and Eraserhead as their third to last obviously has something to prove.

>>79964150
This. Women aren't even sentient, let alone capable of understanding Lost Highway.

>>79965949
Wasn't he accused of raping his daughter by that midget?

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Wild at Heart

>>79965808
nigga you wish you'll have hair that good at 71

>>79966040
Yes, but midgets are un trust worthy.

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>>79965808
>implying

>watching blue velvet after Eraserhead and Mullholland dr.

Why is it so easy to follow now

>>79966040
he was also accused of murdering his best friend
think about that for a second

>>79965995
FWWM blows Eraserhead out of the water on every level. Eraserhead is mid level. Below the hard kino trifecta of Inland Empire, Lost Highway and FWWM but above the capeshit of Blue Velvet and The Elephant Man.

>>79966147
Lynch doesn't only make completely ambiguous films. With Lynch you never know if you'll get an answer or not.

>>79966083
This.
They're always after me lucky charms.

>>79964551
FUCK I just watched that last week and haven't seen any of his other movies besides Mulholland Drive. Hope what you said doesn't apply to me. I mean Twin Peaks is definitely tamer than any of his movies right like I enjoyed that the movies can't really be that dull

>>79966253
this

Wild at Heart is a conventional a film as it gets pretty much

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>>79965935
>which is arguably his best scene in any of his films
nope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG2DqpcHRoA

>>79965995
Guess you missed the part where I said only Dune is inessential. Eraserhead is a good movie. Lynch has made better movies. But, again, if you don't like FWWM, you probably just have bad taste.

>>79966253
I mean I still don't understand why the ear was from the gay dude, or why frank dressed as the third man when he didn't know he was being followed, but the whole movie kind of clicked.

Eraserhead on the other hand left me confused as I'm not even sure how the story concludes

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>>79964103
>mfw I chose to watch Eraserhead on my first date

>>79966236
Eraserhead was Lynch perfecting surrealist imagery. He's never achieved the meditative experience he managed to capture in Eraserhead ever again. He frames it perfectly so that you don't know what you're looking at but you're entranced by it. FWWM was fine but in no way does it surpass Eraserhead. What makes you say its better?

>>79966366
I like FWWM also, but I don't understand how someone can say it surpasses Eraserhead.

>>79964032
Definitely just watch them all. Inland Empire is his best imo, but they all bring something new to the table. Also Dune is totally worth watching. My ranking would be something like
Inland Empire > Lost Highway > FWWM > Blue Velvet > Wild at Heart > Dune > Eraserhead > Mulholland Drive
I haven't seen The Straight Story or Elephant man yet. For some reason the former just really really doesn't catch my interest, but seeing as I love Lynch I suppose I'll get to it eventually

>>79966293
don't listen to that retard. eraserhead is entry-level.
Inland Empire is the true endgame. watch it last.

>>79966393
My parents first date was Eraserhead lmao. Second date was Repo Man

>>79966338
Wrong link senpai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVvGRIxAu9I

>>79966387
Yeah, by most standards Blue Velvet would be considered strange and ambiguous but compared to the rest of Lynch films it's straight forward.

>>79966317
the Straight Story is his most normal film though. Wild at Heart is still bizarre in comparison.

>>79966338
Not even the best scene in that movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpS0DQxE8oY

>>79966471
>Dune above Eraserhead and Mullholland Drive
>FWWM in third
opinion discarded.

>>79966568
I considered switching Dune and Eraserhead, in retrospect perhaps that's correct. But MD felt very watered down and pointless to me. Also FWWM was phenomenal, all three of those films in the top spot are very close and very good

>>79966532
Straight Story is weirder than Elephant man and Dune.

>>79966532
oh shit, yeah thats the most normal for sure

Wild at Heart is still pretty normal in a narrative/structural sense however

>>79966499
Fuckk I forgot how good this was

>>79966480
IE should be watched first if anything, it's his worst film visually.

>>79964433
thread ended here

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>>79966408
>Eraserhead was Lynch perfecting surrealist imagery.
>He's never achieved the meditative experience he managed to capture in Eraserhead ever again

he surpassed it with Inland Empire.
Eraserhead had some neat scenes like the woman in the radiator.
IE was pure nightmare fuel.

>>79966480
>entry-level
>endgame
stop playing video games

>>79966853
Why did it take this long for someone to mention Rabbits?

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>>79966931
Rabbits was my first exposure to Lynch. Good first impression.