A 4K restoration of the film offers a new chance to untangle its uneasily ambiguous, highly bifurcated plot.
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With Inland Empire, David Lynch Crafted a Nightmare on Home Video
Through a suitably unusual remastering process, the famed surreal artist/filmmaker’s last feature film to date can be experienced in a whole new way.
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The Bizarre, Disjointed, Mixed-Media Paintings of David Lynch
Could a current exhibition of paintings, watercolors, and furniture by Lynch hint at secrets hidden in his other works, or even provide some spark of insight into the artist himself?
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A David Lynch-Like Show Revolves Around the Remains of a Turkey Named Lola
Graem Whyte’s installation represents iconic, deeper-cut aspects of the Twin Peaks canon, offering up “moments of sublime mystery.”
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David Lynch Curates an Art and Music Festival in Brooklyn
The Festival of Disruption features Isabella Rossellini, Naomi Watts, Gregory Crewdson, a hefty lineup of musical acts, and, of course, a talk by Lynch himself.
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How David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive Has Influenced Contemporary Art
The authors of a book about Lynch’s influence on art try too hard to crack the mystery of his film Mulholland Drive.
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A Game in Which David Lynch Teaches You How to Type
In the truly Lynchian game, the director gives you instructions like, “place your ‘Left Ring Finger’ in the undulating bug next to your keyboard.”
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Binge-Watch All of the New Twin Peaks at the Museum of Modern Art
All 18 episodes of the series’s landmark final season will screen at MoMA from Friday evening through Sunday.
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Revisiting David Lynch’s Classic Blue Velvet with Behind-the-Scenes Footage
Rich in interviews and ephemera from the making of Lynch’s classic, Blue Velvet Revisited is ultimately disappointing as a standalone artistic achievement.
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A Film Series Inspired by One Really Out-There Episode of the New Twin Peaks
In the aftermath of the sublimely ominous and abstract episode “Part 8” (aka “Gotta Light”), Metrograph organized a wide-ranging program of related films and video art.
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A Cinematic Portrait of David Lynch’s Life and Art Before Film
The new documentary David Lynch: The Art Life is an engrossing account of the artist’s early life, from childhood to film school.
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A Photographer of Unsettlingly Mundane, Lynchian Images
Roe Ethridge combines a commercial photography practice with his personal life to create diquieting images.