The Short Films of David Lynch
by David Lynch
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Actor: Catherine E. Coulson, Dorothy McGinnis, Eddy Dixon, Jeffe Alperi, Robert ChadwickDirector: David Lynch
Brand: Ryko Distribution
Cinematographer: David Lynch
Producer: David Lynch
Writer: David Lynch
Cinematographer: Frederick Elmes
Cinematographer: Herbert Cardwell
Producer: Arash Ayrom
Producer: H. Barton Wasserman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-01-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Absurda/Ryko
DVD Reviews of The Short Films of David Lynch
DVD Review: For the obsessive Lynch fanatique.
Summary: 4 Stars
Buy it if only for the Lumiere short, which in one minute creates more intrigue than most two hour bores.DVD Review: Nightmares!
Summary: 5 Stars
What is it about old short films with grain, textures, and lo-fi sounds that make it so haunting?
I've never quite been able to state whether I love David Lynch's work or hate it. But I can't deny that he's always been intriguing. These films are quite frightening and yes, of course they're bizarre and strange. As I mentioned, the textures, the contrast, the audio, the characters and stories... all the elements combine to produce some really amazing and beautiful work. You'll get basically nothing as far as the traditional narrative here, but there is so much more to work with. If you're familiar at all with the Brothers Quay, this would be a definite buy for you.
Of the Lynch features I've seen, I'd probably say that "Eraserhead" and "Inland Empire" are the most comparable to the short films on this disc. Take it for what it's worth, could be good or bad. I think that his early work embraces the experimental, and he capitalizes on the fact he is working with a short film, not a feature. I really love these pieces, having previously only seen "Luminere"
I will assume that most people at least have some idea of what David Lynch can be like... so take that into account if buying this collection. I think the films are great, but they're definitely not for everybody. One huge attribute to this collection is the short intros given by the director before each film (option to watch with or without)
& Peggy singing the alphabet is going to give me nightmares for weeks.
DVD Review: Whoa!
Summary: 4 Stars
This is some pretty cool stuff by David Lynch. While I haven't been able to see Blue Velvet (already a contender to be one of my favorite movies, but I have to see it) or Eraserhead, well no matter. I have no clue about weird film directors besides Lynch, but matter not. It's some cool watching.
The short films on here are pretty great, and the Grandmother, The Alphabet (that one rules) and the six men getting sick are worth the price alone. David Lynch gives some great tricks.. I love his live action shooting in this one. It's extremely dark and his lighting is totally weird. Just check out the Grandmother, with Matt (well, that's what the parents yell, one of the only lines in the whole movie) and his creepy room, a weird looking bed in a black backdrop. Pretty cool. The Alphabet has some sinister looking faces, and is supposed to be about the life cycle (and was inspired when someone he knew was saying the alphabet in a tormented way) David Lynch does some great introductions as well. Great acting, really, just some cool stuff.
It's a great DVD. This one is just worth seeing just to see it's many cool images. A must watch, maybe not a must own, but a must watch.
DVD Review: That's how it began
Summary: 4 Stars
David Lynch is my favorite director of all times. He stands on top, side by side with Stanley Kubrick, in my opinion. I've been watching his films over and over again since I was 16 and it's always a new experience. Every single time I discover new meanings, new interpretations, new compelling details, which is wonderful but also frustrating, in a way: when I think I'm pretty close to fully understand his art, I have to re-think it all.
But "The Short Films" came as a fundamental help to my efforts. There is where it all began and there I found the seeds (it's funny to see how the seeds are a constant in his early works, from "The Alphabet" to "Eraserhead") of his unique art.
The DVD includes the following works:
-- Six Men getting sick
-- The Alphabet
-- The Grandmother
-- The Amputee
-- The Cowboy and the Frenchman
-- Lumiere
I can see clearly a path connecting the first three films. In the odd "film painting" of the Six Men Lynch establishes one of his staple subjects: the birth/generation (the life!) as a sickness; then he depicts learning as a traumatic experience in "The Alphabet" and finally ends this unorthodox trilogy with that "nightmare of growing" called "The Grandmother".
"The Grandmother" is definitely a complete film and his first, disturbing masterpiece: I think this alone is worth the price of the DVD, an absolute must-see.
The remaining three works are less interesting. I see in them more mannerism and less significance, while "The cowboy and the Frenchman" is fun (thanks to Harry Dean Stanton!) and very reminiscent of the humour of "Twin Peaks".
I would have enjoyed some extras, but now my Lynch collection is complete and I'm very glad of my purchase.
DVD Review: Work in progress!
Summary: 4 Stars
It doesn't seem to affirm David Lynch was the most legitimate and visceral minimalist filmmaker of that generation. This artistic conception emerged in 1965, defying the lyricism, the abstract expressionism and pop art' figuration searching renovated forms of abstraction, based on the simplicity of colors and geometrical shapes.
In this brief but curious release, we will appreciate the first steps and concerns of this young promise.
Six sick men and the alphabet are featured by elemental and animated drawings, which dates us back to a sort of blend of aesthetic primitivism, accusing influences of Fauvism and Constructivism.
The grandmother is perhaps his most ambitious project. A surrealistic nightmare works out as preamble to a lonely child, incapable to establish no communication with his parents, and so he decides to become an apprentice of alchemist, creating that grandmother. Permeated by a gothic atmosphere and audacious chromatic games and expressionistic shots, he achieves - to my view- a fascinating,, outrageous and macabre tale , a dark metaphor about the alienation and horrid loneliness.
The amputee is, although its briefness, a caustic tale where the shocking images describe by themselves, the serene bitterness of very alluring woman.
Finally, The cowboy and the Frenchman, is an enraptured, sardonic and iconic tale where Lynch intermingles some folkloric elements, typical of both cultures.
It is interesting to realize how this provocative feminine choir, would be employed by Lynch in "Mulholland drive."
Description of The Short Films of David Lynch
SHORT FILMS OF DAVID LYNCHDavid Lynch
Collection of highly sourght-after David Lynch shorts, including his first works.
A must-see for fans of the legendary filmmaker David Lynch, this collecton features six short films from the master of the macabre. Spanning the director's career, from early experiments to more fully realized visions, this disc contains the shorts "Six Men Getting Sick", "The Alphabet", "The Grandmother" "The Amputee", The Cowboy and the Frenchman" and "Lumiere". Each film is preceded by an introduction from the director.
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