David Lynch's Favourite Films

Here is an excerpt from Lynch’s book where he speaks about his favourite films. The other films listed come from various other interviews and from his books. His favourite directors include Stanley Kubrick, Federico Fellini, Billy Wilder, Werner Herzog and Jacques Tati.

“If I have to choose films that represent, for me, examples of perfect film making, I think I could narrow it down to four.

The first would be 8 1/2, for the way Fedrico Fellini manages to accomplish with film what mostly abstract painters do – namely, to communicate an emotion without ever saying or showing anything in a direct manner, without...