The Short Films of David Lynch

2002

Animation / Documentary / Drama / Horror

8
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 3640 3.6K

surreal surrealism short film

Director

David Lynch Photo
David Lynch

Top cast

David Lynch Photo
David Lynch as Self - Narrator
Frederic Golchan Photo
Frederic Golchan as Pierre the Frenchman
Tracey Walter Photo
Tracey Walter as Dusty
Michael Horse Photo
Michael Horse as Broken Feather
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593.69 MB
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24 fps
1 hr 4 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by MovieAddict2016 7 / 10

Fascinating look at early Lynch

For Lynch fans in particular, I'm sure this would be an amazing treat. Essentially a collection of Lynch's early student films, it also features newly-recorded (2002) introductions from Lynch himself as he explains his feelings for each piece of his work. He also provides some trivia tidbits and anecdotes.These are all very bizarre, some better than others. The strangest is probably "The Amputee," which was filmed to test the difference between two different kinds of stock footage supposedly. Lynch plays a nurse who walks into a room and replaces an amputee woman's leg wrap. Blood begins to spurt everywhere almost comically and as the nurse begins to panic she remains totally unaware of his presence. Very weird.They're not all very good but they're interesting merely for the sake of being an insightful look at a great director's early work.Recommended - and highly recommended to Lynch fans.
Reviewed by mrcreen 8 / 10

pretty good

I love David Lynch, so of course I was so excited when I got this. As much as I thought it was decently OK, I really just think that maybe my expectation of the short films were too high. The worst of the bunch by far is the one about the cowboy and the frenchman. The frenchman is quite attractive though, I must say. Overall, it's pretty dull, but still watchable. My favorite of the group is probably "The Alphabet." It's a total nightmare and very original, creative, and spooky, I do declare. I think probably the only people that would benefit from this DVD are real Lynch fans, like myself. Oh, and "The Grandmother" is really great too.
Reviewed by Polaris_DiB 8 / 10

Untie!

It's really nice having this collection around. Lynch's short films are important because they are a more potent and unabridged form of his style and work--he has a lot more freedom with the form, and thus can do basically whatever comes to mind, versus making things feature length which also means making them feature-like.Some are better than others. Some are wildly out there. Overall they're great fun to show to friends for that whole, "What the--?" value when they're unfamiliar with who you're presenting, and anybody who is familiar with the material will enjoy it anyway.I don't know where I stand on Lynch's introductions, though. On one hand, it's nice to have a back story so that the viewer knows not only what he's watching, but how it came to be and thus, to a degree, what it means. However, some of it gets pretty tedious. I relate to a lot of Lynch's emotions when he describes the processes and events that got him into film, but still, I'd rather just get to the film. The DVD this comes with has the nice ability to go right to the films from the menues, but there's no "play all without introduction" so that can be tedious too.But overall, definitely worth the time and effort to find and watch this.--PolarisDiB
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