The Spell of David Lynch

When the filmmaker David Lynch died earlier this year, fans created shrines filled with coffee, doughnuts, cigarettes and blue roses; a level of spontaneous mourning more common for dead rock stars or royalty than filmmakers. His auctioned belongings sold for staggering sums, almost as if they were relics, showing how many people felt deeply connected to his work.

Why?

David was that unusual figure - an artist who had mainstream success but seemed to remain defiantly and deeply countercultural.

How?

And, this was a man who had an adjective  - ‘Lynchian’ - named after him

But what does that mean?

The writer and cultural historian  John Higgs, returns to the Bureau. His new book ‘Lynchian: The Spell of David Lynch’  tries to answerthose questions while taking a deep dive into the hidden depths of Lynch's films - where beauty and horror, dream and reality, suburban innocence and lurking evil co-exist; where simple pleasures—coffee, pie, music—take on a sacred resonance in contrast to violence and decay. Where we can take a journey into darkness and out again - changed.

And we dig into art, consciousness, dreaming, ideas and the writer's life in these changing times.

 

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