https://vo.rs/tags/david-lynch/Latest from the David Lynch desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/david-lynch-the-dreamer-of-american-unease/<p>David Lynch turned an adjective into a description of a feeling. &ldquo;Lynchian&rdquo; now means something everyone recognises and no one can quite define — the ordinary made strange, a diner or a lamp or a suburban lawn charged with a dread that has no name, the sense that the pleasant surface of American life is a skin stretched over something writhing. He died in January 2025, and the tributes all reached for that word because there was no better one. No director of his era built a more complete and self-contained world, and none did it while remaining so cheerfully, sincerely fond of the coffee, the pie and the sunshine his films keep pulling apart.</p>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/eraserhead-lynchs-industrial-lullaby-of-dread/<p>Close your eyes during <em>Eraserhead</em> and you have already understood most of it. Before the images resolve into anything you can name, there is the sound: a low, continuous industrial hum, the churn of unseen machinery, a wind that never stops and never comes from anywhere. David Lynch and his sound designer Alan Splet built that drone over years, and it is the true architecture of the film. The pictures are the wallpaper. The dread lives in the air pressure.</p>Wed, 08 Nov 2023 11:00:00 +0000