The Fitter, Happier UnLibrarian's Pathfinder for the Dream World of David Lynch: Scope of the Pathfinder

This pathfinder is designed for those parties—be they fans, students, researchers, movie lovers or the like, interested in the wonderfully dark, complex, evocative and nuanced dream world of Mr. David Lynch. The pathfinder encompasses selected books, articles, databases, websites as well as a few extras. The pathfinder shall focus in on the dream like world that has been prevalent in Lynch’s work since he began making his first feature film Eraserhead in the 1970’s.

It should be noted that any images, references, quotes, pictures and the like used in this pathfinder are used in accordance to the principles of Fair Use Act. This pathfinder is unofficially intended for the Los Angeles Public Library system as well as intended for use on the internet.

David Lynch: Interviews/Publish Date: September 28, 2009

Few directors in the past three decades have produced movies more compelling, controversial, or confounding than David Lynch (b. 1946). And fewer still have been so reluctant to talk about what they do. In this collection, editor Richard A. Barney has chosen the rare interviews in which Lynch opens up to questions rather than deflecting them. Whether Lynch is talking about his earliest film shorts such as The Grandmother or the break-out surrealist feature Eraserhead, the hit TV series Twin Peaks or his Oscar-nominated The Elephant Man or Blue Velvet or his most recent experimental tours de force, Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire, he stresses the power of image and sound to communicate his vision. David Lynch: Interviews is the first survey of conversations with the director covering the broad spectrum of his artistic activities throughout his career, including filmmaking, painting, music production, and furniture design. It documents the evolution of Lynch's role in discussing his movies, from his self-described "pre-verbal stage" in the early years to his increasingly elaborate, though persistently elusive, articulations. It also registers the intense international interest in Lynch's work, with interviews from French and Spanish sources translated here for the first time.