Thoughts? Pure artistry? A total waste of celluloid? David Lynch is a genius? An utter con artist? Does the film have logic? Is there a linear story of sorts? And, is everything really fine in heaven?

While I think it does have a weird linear logic and was a twisted work of art, it's just not a DVD I can get excited about owning. Like Bad Lt or Irreversible, it's just not a pleasent viewing experience.

"They're new! They're man-made!"

An interesting movie. Worth seeing more than once. A real precursor to the films to come; all the "Lynch-isms" are on display and you can see them turn up again in other films - The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Lost Highway(a personal fave), Mulholland Drive.

Does Lynch have a sense of humor? Is "Eraserhead" a comedy?

ERASERHEAD really creeped me out the first time I saw it -- so much so that I've never been able to bring myself to watch it again. It's the only film I've ever seen that genuinely "disturbed" me.

I love BLUE VELVET, but my favorite Lynch film remains THE ELEPHANT MAN, which I regard as one of the best films of the 1980's.

This is one of the few movies from the 70's that stick in my brain. For the visuals and mood. I remember the experience more physically than anything. Yes I'll watch it now it's on DVD. Netflix though. Won't risk investing in it.

Does Lynch have a sense of humor?

Undoubtedly!

Is "Eraserhead" a comedy?

As much as any of his films are comedies. We must blur the lines for Lynch. How's this for a pretentious remark: Is life a comedy?

Saw it in college, more of a visceral experience than a viewing experience. I did buy the soundtrack - now that's an interesting little bit of aural entertainment. If you enjoy mosquitoes buzzing around your head, you'll enjoy the soundtrack!

Hey it's one of those weird coincidences!

Sunday I was makin'out with my girlfriend on the couch to a tape I made some years ago with cinematic music - "You Only Live Twice" on there, w/lovely John Barry score, "I'm Not In Love" from 10CC The Original Soundtrack, all lovely and lush and lip-lockin', then "HSSSSSSSSS!" a sudden snippet from the Eraserhead soundtrack w/panting baby and giant mosquitoes kicks in. Not enough to kill the mood but I remember thinkin' "SHEESH - why'd this hafta pop up?"

I used to have a mix-tape with Frank Booth's "Heinekin!? Pabst Blue Ribbon!!/Ben is soooo suave/ I'll **** anything that moves!!" speeches right in the middle of it. Always livened up the party.

Geez, and I thought having an occassional hip-hop/jam in the middle of a mix was being daring...

José

oy. just sent back my netflix copy of Eraserhead.

Excellent transfer.

The "extra" is an hour long monologue (part dialogue) of David Lynch talking about the 6 or 7 years during which Eraserhead was made. This talk was fascinating if only for the glimpse of his life in the 70's. But the way the movie was made is fascinating too. Filmed in a carriage house belonging to a mansion in Hollywood used by the American Film Institute as a teaching college. Lynch lived in Henry "Eraserhead" Spencer's "room" during that time. Sleeping during the day in Henry's bed and filming at night. Lynch did say, "No reviewer has guessed what Eraserhead means to me." Nope, he didn't blurt it out.

Definite downer. I might have to get it again, like a gruesome car wreck, you can't help looking.

I'd forgotten about the oozing roast chicken dinner that started kicking when Henry was about to carve it.

Baby Henry I didn't forget. shudder...

Baby Henry I didn't forget. shudder...

An amazing creation in it's own right.

but my favorite Lynch film remains THE ELEPHANT MAN, which I regard as one of the best films of the 1980's.


A shame it's about as accurate as Star Trek. Paints Treves to be a saint when he was nothing more than a Circus Hawker who couldn't even remember Merrick's name. And since the film was based on Treves's memoirs we now know Joseph Merrick by a term that's slang for a penis.

An amazing creation in it's own right.

Lynch on "the baby".


Question: Did you make that thing?

David Lynch: That I . . . I don't . . . I . . . Stephen, I don't wanna, uh . . . talk about that.

Can you just tell me if it's a . . . sculpture? It's so well done. Someone I saw it with thought that it might be a calf fetus.

That's what a lot of people think it is.

I thought it was made, but couldn't figure out how you got it to move. Was it battery-operated?

I really don't . . .

You credit a doctor in the film. Is that related?

Well, I was looking into different ways, you know, in the beginning...

And?

If I say, I'll really feel bad.

Is it because you'd be giving away a technical secret, or because you'd be arrested?

You know, there's no promotional photos of the baby because people, like, uh...you know... it's like, nice to discover along in the film and not to know, like...much about it.

You say all the sounds are organic. Do you use the sound of a real baby crying?

No.

Then what is it? Or won't you tell that either?

I'm sorry, Stephen. Doggone it, you know, I'm not trying to, you know... It's just the baby stuff, I....

– END –


So do you really still want to know? Well let me put it this way:

"I hate talking about how things are done. It's like a magic trick. As soon as people know how it was done, they say, 'Oh.' The curiosity instantly vanishes." David Lynch


Everything Eraserhead (http://www.geocities.com/~mikehartmann/eh.html). Sorry, I'm obsessing.

This German (http://www.geocities.com/~mikehartmann/papers/wolfe.html) attempts to define the film in terms he's comfortable with (excuse his english). I don't agree with him (Neither would Lynch, I think), but it does open up the film for analysis.

I think I'm going to have to watch it again.

.... maybe even buy a copy?;)

I dunno. It's $39.94 at Lynch's site (http://ecomm.davidlynch.com/catalog/ehead_signed.php). $88.09 autographed. Why do I sense those are the perfect prices?

I dunno. It's $39.94 at Lynch's site (http://ecomm.davidlynch.com/catalog/ehead_signed.php). $88.09 autographed. Why do I sense those are the perfect prices?

I held out because of those prices too. The exact same version (at least I think it is) is now available at a much more reasonable price:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00003CWPL/ref=ase_imdb-adbox/102-8426237-2415336?n=130&tagActionCode=imdb-adbox



Great links in your previous post, by the way. Thanks.