David Lynch

David Lynch - Crazy Clown Time

The iconic director's latest foray into music has great moments but an overdependence on filler

16 Nov 2011

(Sunday Best) The dark cinema of David Lynch needs no introduction, nor does the music in his films – whether the work of composer Angelo Badalamenti or his use of older pop songs. Who could forget Dean Stockwell lipsyncing Roy Orbison’s ‘In Dreams…

Duran Duran launch album with David Lynch

Music Gossip

23 Mar 2011

Duran Duran will live stream a show from Los Angeles to launch their latest album. The 'Rio' hitmakers - who release their 13th record 'All You Need is Now' on CD this week - will collaborate with filmmaker David Lynch for the 'Unstaged: An Original…

Brian Reynolds' Glasgow Music and Film Festival highlights

Music programmer for The Arches picks out the music events highlights

16 Feb 2011

‘As someone with indie Glasgow sensibilities, Mondo Morricone ’s the event I’m most excited about. I first saw it ten years ago at Stirling’s Cowane Centre as a penniless student. Eugene Kelly and Isobel Campbell played with Duglas [T Stewart, of BMX…

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?

7 Sep 2010

(15) 93min Inspired by true events, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done tells the story of Brad Macallum (Michael Shannon), an aspiring actor who commits the crime he is to enact in a Greek tragedy in which he is performing. So here it is. The…

Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse - Dark Night of the Soul

7 Jul 2010

(EMI) The recent suicide of Mark Linkous, aka. Sparklehorse imbues this posthumous release with oppressive waves of melancholy, but this often-inspired record – heartbreaking and uplifting in equal measure – rises above such considerations to stand…

EIFF launches its 2010 programme

1 Jun 2010

On the miserable wet morning of Tue 1 June at Filmhouse in Edinburgh, the good the bad and the ugly of Scottish media gathered in surprising numbers for the later-than-usual-launch of the Edinburgh International Film Festival's 2010 programme. In…

Twin Peaks complete series released on DVD - Mark Frost interview - complete transcript

5 Mar 2010

To mark release of the Twin Peaks: Definitive Gold DVD Box Set, Murray Robertson interviews the seminal TV series’ co-creator and producer Mark Frost. This is the complete unedited transcript of the interview.

Twin Peaks boxset released on DVD - Mark Frost interview

2 Mar 2010

Almost twenty years to the day since Twin Peaks first aired, the long-awaited conclusion to David Lynch and Mark Frost’s seminal series is finally released on DVD. Series co-creator and executive producer Frost tells Murray Robertson what took so…

Dynamic: 01 - The Best of DavidLynch.com

11 Sep 2009

(15) 116 min (Scanbox DVD retail) Watching these sketches and skits that were first shown on David Lynch’s subscription-based website, we might think he is the Francis Bacon of film. In his features Lynch is the master of the tension between…

5 Questions: Gamma Ray Dali

24 Jul 2009

We talk to Gamma Ray Dali who orchestrates the madness that is Confusion is Sex, a multi-sensory clubbing experience featuring live sets from Big Ned and The Leg vs The Pineapple Chunks and far more besides for this Festival special.

David Lynch and Donovan

18 Oct 2007

David Lynch, and Donovan. Together at last. If your mind hasn’t blown itself yet, try throwing some transcendental meditation into the mix. No, not a strange Twin Peaks spoof. Lynch actually will be speaking in Edinburgh and Glasgow this fortnight, in…

David Lynch receives French Legion d’Honneur

2 Oct 2007

The film-maker responsible for Mulholland Drive and cult TV series Twin Peaks has received the Legion d’Honneur in France. David Lynch was hailed by French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who said seeing Lynch’s The Elephant Man had convinced him that the…

David Lynch

Wild at art

23 Apr 2007

At the Paris launch of David Lynch’s first major exhibition of his drawings and photographs, the 61-year-old director was asked to offer some insight into the work. To seasoned Lynch-watchers, the response was a typical mixture of beguiling and…

Inland Empire

(15) 180min

27 Feb 2007

EXPERIMENTAL/MYSTERY Going into any David Lynch film there is an expectation that you’ll leave the cinema a little confused. As he’s demonstrated with Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and Lost Highway, he loves a mystery, especially if it involves…