Short Films of David Lynch, The
Short Films of David Lynch, The
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Six unique expressions of David Lynch's darkly surreal and unsettling brand of cinema, including his earliest, pre-Eraserhead experiments. Six Men Getting Sick (1967, 1 mins.), Lynch''s first foray into filmmaking, was mad e while attending the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. The eerie film loop wa s described by Lynch as "57 seconds of growth and fire, and three seconds of vomit". The Alphabet (1968, 4 mins.) is a partially animated 16mm shor t in which a young girl experiences terror during her first exposure to the alphabet. The Grandmother (1970, 34 mins.) again mixes animation and live-action footage to create a disturbing fairy tale about a young boy who "grows" a grandmother from a packet of magical seeds. The Amputee (1 974, 5 mins./4 mins.) is a video experiment that Lynch completed for the Americ an Film Institute. As a male nurse cares for what''s left of a woman''s mangled , amputated legs, she wistfully crafts a letter to a distant lover. The Cowboy and the Frenchman (1989, 26 mins.) is a surprisingly lightheart ed venture for Lynch. Harry Dean Stanton, Jack Nance, and Michael Horse star in a film that lovingly lampoons Western genre tropes and French values. Final ly, Lumiere (1995, 1 min.) pays homage to the birth of cinema with a stylized short film that blends the hallucinatory mood of Lynch''s work w ith David Lynch---USA---1967-1995---97 mins.

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The early stuff is for fans or the curious, it has a great adjust your TV feature so that you can see just how your TV is supposed to represent the picture color, contrast, brightness wise, so if you rent this do that first. The difference was very noticable when viewing any other dvd also, as David states: most TVs are adjusted to have a great picture in bright light, this is not ..at home.. viewing. When watching at home the less ambient light the better.

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