It’s sad that death is often what brings this app together, but I’m just tremendously moved by how this man’s work converged with so many people’s lives. I don’t know if that spark will ever light again, but if the past day has proven anything, it’s that his work will live on.
It’s so cool that we got to witness the work of an artist with the innate understanding of the darkest human impulses and the sense of wonder and imagination and sincerity of a child. That contradiction is what made his work feel so special.
I think what Lynch taught me in the end is that you can make art that resonates with the marginalized without even trying to. You can be a genius without purporting yourself to be. Sometimes the most radical and representational thing you can do is to express yourself freely.
Maybe I’m getting soft, but I adored A COMPLETE UNKNOWN. Found its focus on the music and relative lack of hokey melodrama very refreshing. I may be the biggest fan of Timothee Chalamet who isn’t parasocially/sexually attracted to him.
@coopercooperco Really just the flat lighting and color grading that bothers me. I think the style of constant ugly shallow focus close-ups and quick cutting of action scenes the Russo bros popularized feels more like TV directing to me now.
Best new-to-me movies I watched in 2024:
MULHOLLAND DRIVE
THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE
THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
PERSEPOLIS
ALL THE PRESIDENTS’ MEN
OJ: MADE IN AMERICA
ROSEMARY’S BABY
HIGH SCHOOL
DDLJ
ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER