28. Shorts: David Lynch Shorts (1967-1970)
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English - December 22, 2020 09:28 - 56 minutes - 78.3 MBFilm History TV & Film Arts Performing Arts Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Influential filmmaker David Lynch got his start in shorts, and today we look at two of his early works, Six Men Getting Sick and The Grandmother. If you know him from Twin Peaks or Mulholland Drive, you’ll want to listen in to hear about Lynch’s early experiments in surrealism.
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Carroll, Rory in “Interview: David Lynch ‘You gotta be selfish. It’s a terrible thing’”: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jun/23/david-lynch-gotta-be-selfish-twin-peaks
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