I think it’s his most creative. I adore the film, it’s too bad he never made any full length films like it, and no, I would not consider Eraserhead one of the attempts, although it is the closest example of his short films.
1. Mulholland Drive
2. The Straight Story
3. The Elephant Man
4. Twin Peaks (the series)
5. Blue Velvet
6. Eraserhead
7. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
8. Wild At Heart
9. Lost Highway
10. Inland Empire
As fitting for such a divisive director, I consider 1-5 brilliant to strong, while 6-10 ranges from interesting mess to completely unwatchable.
The Good
1. Straight Story (My favorite Lynch movie by miles)
2. Wild at Heart
3. Blue Velvet
The Bad
4. Lost Highway
5. Mulholand Drive
The Ugly
6. Twin Peaks
The WTF?
7. Eraserhead
My Top 5 David Lynch Films:
5. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
4. Eraserhead
3. Dune
2. Wild at Heart
1. Mulholland Drive
Inland Empire
Eraserhead
Mulholland Drive
Fire Walk With Me
Twin Peaks (Pilot through episode 16, Epsode 27 to 29)
The Elephant Man
Blue Velvet
The Straight Story
The Grandmother
Lost Highway
The Lumiere Short
Dune
On The Air
Wild at Heart
1.) Mullholland Drive
2.) Twin Peak Series
3.) Blue Velvet
4.) The Elephant Man
5.) Eraserhead
6.) Wild At Heart
7.) Lost Highway
8.) Fire Walk With Me
Mulholland Drive is great. I must confess to really enjoying Dune as well. It was the first Lynch I saw and as a kid I loved the book. Sometimes when I come home from work the best thing can be dinner and Dune
Out of the ones I’ve seen, and not counting his shorts or Twin Peaks series (As I haven’t finished it quite yet):
1. Eraserhead
2. Inland Empire
3. Mulholland Drive
4. The Elephant Man
5. Blue Velvet
Also begs the question; Am I the only one who thought Inland Empire was brilliant?
1. Mulholland Drive
2. Eraserhead
3. Twin Peaks
4. Wild At Heart
I dislike
5. Blue Velvet
6. Lost Highway
1. Mulholland Dr.
2. Twin Peaks
3. Eraserhead
4. Fire Walk With Me
5. Blue Velvet
6. Inland Empire
7. Wild At Heart
8. Lost Highway (blaaaaaaah!)
I haven’t seen The Elephant Man in its entirety or The Straight Story, etc.
1. Mulholland Drive
2. Inland Empire
3. Twin Peaks: FWWM
4. Lost Highway
5. The Elephant Man
6. Blue Velvet
7. Wild at Heart
8. Eraserhead
9. The Straight Story
10. The shorts of Lynch
11. Dumbland (The only thing by Lynch I did not absolutely love)
Great lists…
Mine are:
Mulholland Drive
Blue Velvet
Lost Highway
the worst:
Dune, ouch…I love Lynch, but his attempt at Hollywood blockbuster isn’t his thing.
everything else is either equally good or I haven’t seen.
I agree. The best: Mulholland Drive. The worst: Dune.
1+1=Mulholland Drive+Inland Empire=Lost Highway:The Four Short Stories
In fact, it s very difficult to criticize a painter who make films
Blue Velvet
Wild At Heart
Blue Velvet
Mulholland Dr
Twin Peaks (the whole damn thing)
Short Films
Eraserhead
Inland Empire
I have only seen Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire. I can’t imagine two more contrasting pieces of art by the same creator. Inland Empire was just ugly on every level, with the exception of a scene here and there, while Mulholland Drive was stunningly beautiful. So, which of his other works are more like MD, and farthest from IE? I’d like to check out more, but I’ve been very skeptical.
Blue Velvet
The Elephant Man
The Straight Story
Mulholland Dr.
Twin Peaks (pilot)
Eraserhead
Lost Highway
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Dune
Wild at Heart
INLAND EMPIRE (Exasperating, and possibly the most unpleasant 3 hrs I’ve ever endured in a movie theatre. He is one of my favourite directors but he really put me to the test with this one. I’ve meant to watch it again but just can’t seem to summon up the nerve to go through the unpleasantness all over again. However, I am heartened by the number of admirerers of IE I find on this site and hope to find out how mistaken I was should I ever get around to watching it again.)
Twin Peaks – the two-hour tv pilot (a televison landmark)
Mulholland Drive
Blue Velvet
Twin Peaks – season 1
Eraserhead
Lost Highway
The Elephant Man
Twin Peaks – season 2 (excepting Ray Wise’s brilliant death scene)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Inland Empire
AAHHEMMM!
Dune,
Dune,
Dune,
…and Dune
(And maybe a little Eraserhead…)
Isn’t everything else he did a kind of a soap opera, or something? I can never sit through ten minutes of his other movies… Maybe I should see Elephant Man though.
I get the feeling some of the posters here don’t even consider Dune to be a Lynch film!
Dune is so totally a Lynch film!
Because Dune sucks.
Well, yeah, that too. It’s a David Lynch film that sucks. Like Wild at Heart.
1 elephant man
2 mulholland dr.
3 eraserhead
4 twin peaks (as a whole)
5 blue velvet
6 lost highway
7 inland empire
8 straight story
9 wild at heart
10 dune
where can i see grandmother?
Isn’t it available to view on this site?
Scratch that. Seems it is not. Sorry.
Netflix and here
thank you glemaud!!!!!!!!!!
Cooool ! 1,000,000 thanks Glemaud.
Out of the ones I’ve seen.
1.) Mulholland Drive
2.) Blue Velvet
3.) The Straight Story
4.) Eraserhead
5.) Lost Highway
6.) Wild at Heart
Col. Dax
Nice pick on The Grandmother Joriah. From the very little I’ve seen that’s his best work.