David LynchRichard A. BarneyLabel: University Press of MississippiDescription: Few directors in the past three decades have produced movies more compelling controversial or confounding than David Lynch (b. 1946). And fewer still have been so reluctant to talk about what they do. In this collection editor Richard A. Barney has chosen the rare interviews in which Lynch opens up to questions rather than deflecting them. Whether Lynch is talking about his earliest film shorts such as The Grandmother or the break-out surrealist feature Eraserhead the hit TV series Twin Peaks or his Oscar-nominated The Elephant Man or Blue Velvet or his most recent experimental tours de force Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire he stresses the power of image and sound to communicate his vision.David Lynch: Interviews is the first survey of conversations with the director covering the broad spectrum of his artistic activities throughout his career including filmmaking painting music production and furniture design. It documents the evolution of Lynch's role in discussing his movies from his self-described pre-verbal stage in the early years to his increasingly elaborate though persistently elusive articulations. It also registers the intense international interest in Lynch's work with interviews from French and Spanish sources translated here for the first time.
