Las mejores películas de la década: Cahiers du Cinéma y Sight & Sound

Cahiers du Cinéma

1. Mulholland Drive – David Lynch
2. Elephant – Gus van Sant
3. Tropical Malady – Apichatpong Weerasethakul
4. The Host – Bong Joon-ho
5. A History of Violence – David Cronenberg
6. The Secret of the Grain – Abdelatif Kechiche
7. West of the Tracks – Wang Bing
8. War of the Worlds – Steven Spielberg
9. The New World – Terrence Malick
10. Ten – Abbas Kiarostami

Sight & Sound
(Orden Alfabético)

• Adaptation – Spike Jonze
• Battle in Heaven – Carlos Reygadas
• The Beat That My Heart Skipped – Jacques Audiard
• The Bourne Ultimatum – Paul Greengrass
• Caché – Michael Haneke
• Colossal Youth – Pedro Costa
• The Death of Mr. Lazarescu – Cristi Piu
• Éloge de l’amour – Jean-Luc Godard
• The Five Obstructions – Lars von Trier and Jorgen Leth
• The Gleaners and I – Agnès Varda
• The Holy Girl – Lucrecia Martel
• Inland Empire – David Lynch
• In the Mood for Love – Wong Kar-Wai
• Memories of Murder – Bong Joon-ho
• Platform – Jia Zhangke
• Russian Ark – Aleksandr Sokurov
• The Son – Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
• Spirited Away – Hayao Miyazaki
• Talk to Her – Pedro Almodovar
• Ten – Abbas Kiarostami
• There Will Be Blood – Paul Thomas Anderson
• 35 Shots of Rum – Claire Denis
• Touching the Void – Kevin Macdonald
• Tropical Malady – Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• United Red Army – Wakamatsu Koji
• Uzak – Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• Waiting for Happiness – Abderramane Sissako
• Werckmeister Harmonies – Béla Tarr and Agnes Hranitzky
• Workingman’s Death – Michael Glawogger
• Yi Yi – Edward Yang

Top 150 de la década (Film Comment)

Sepan disculpar el autobombo, pero me encanta la parte del listado donde aparece mi nombre seguido, en orden alfabético, por Jonathan Lethem, a quien este blog le debe su nombre...

This past fall, Film Comment conducted an international poll of critics, programmers, academics, filmmakers, and others to identify the top films and filmmakers of the decade. The best films of the decade, as decided by their vote, follows, as well as a full list of voters. To read more from the respondents—including comments, films and filmmakers of the decades, and personal lists—grab a copy of the January/February 2010 issue of Film Comment magazine!

1. Mulholland Drive David Lynch, U.S. 2001 2808
2. In the Mood for Love Wong Kar Wai, Hong Kong 2000 2687
3. Yi Yi Edward Yang, China 2000 1833
4. Syndromes and a Century Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand/Austria/France 2006 1738
5. There Will Be Blood P. T. Anderson, U.S. 2007 1664
6. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu Cristi Puiu, Romania 2005 1407
7. A History of Violence David Cronenberg, U.S./Canada 2005 1303
8. Tropical Malady Apichatpong Weerasethakul, France/Thailand/Italy/Germany 2004 1301
9. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days Cristi Mungiu, Romania 2007 1249
10. The New World Terrence Malick, U.S. 2005 1223
11. Platform Jia Zhangke, Hong Kong/Japan/France 2000 1206
12. Zodiac David Fincher, U.S. 2007 1143
13. The Intruder Claire Denis, France 2004 1110
14. The Son Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium/France 2002 1089
15. Dogville Lars von Trier, Denmark/Sweden/France/U.K./Germany/Netherlands 2003 1084
16. Caché Michael Haneke, France/Austria/Germany/Italy 2005 1083
17. Kings and Queen Arnaud Desplechin, France 2005 1080
18. Elephant Gus Van Sant, U.S. 2003 1036
19. The Royal Tenenbaums Wes Anderson, U.S. 2001 1007
20. Before Sunset Richard Linklater, U.S. 2004 1005
21. Spirited Away Hayao Miyazaki, Japan 2001 1000
22. The Gleaners and I Agnès Varda, France 2000 985
23. Goodbye, Dragon Inn Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan 2003 975
24. The World Jia Zhangke, China/Japan/France 2004 974
25. Talk to Her Pedro Almodóvar, Spain 2002 973
26. Inland Empire David Lynch, U.S./France/Poland 2006 960
27. Still Life Jia Zhangke, China/Hong Kong 2006 934
28. Colossal Youth Pedro Costa, France/Portugal/Switzerland 2006 929
29. Russian Ark Alexander Sokurov, Russia/Germany 2002 870
30. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence Steven Spielberg, U.S. 2001 850
31. In Praise of Love Jean-Luc Godard France/Switzerland 2001 834
32. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Michel Gondry, U.S. 2004 832
33. No Country for Old Men Joel & Ethan Coen, U.S. 2007 791
34. Werckmeister Harmonies Béla Tarr, Hungary/Italy/Germany/France 2000 778
35. Grizzly Man Werner Herzog, U.S./Canada 2005 777
36. Three Times Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan 2005 767
37. Café Lumière Hou Hsiao-hsien, Japan/Taiwan 2003 761
38. Regular Lovers Philippe Garrel, France 2005 759
39. Blissfully Yours Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand/France 2002 713
40. I'm Not There Todd Haynes, U.S./Germany 2007 703
41. 2046 Wong Kar Wai, China/Hong Kong/France 2005 700
42. In Vanda's Room Pedro Costa, Portugal/Germany/Switzerland 2000 654
43. Los Angeles Plays Itself Thom Andersen, U.S. 2003 649
44. Millennium Mambo Hou Hsiao-hsien, France/U.S./Spain/Greece 2001 636
45. La Commune (Paris, 1871) Peter Watkins, France 2000 632
46. The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow, U.S. 2009 623
47. Million Dollar Baby Clint Eastwood, U.S. 2004 607
48. What Time Is It There? Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan/France 2001 600
49. demonlover Olivier Assayas, France 2002 583
50. The Headless Woman Lucrecia Martel, Argentina/Spain/France/Italy 2009 581
51. La Captive Chantal Akerman, France/Belgium 2000 580
52. Esther Kahn Arnaud Desplechin, France/U.K. 2000 579
53. Notre musique Jean-Luc Godard, France/Switzerland 2004 562
54. Distant Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey 2002 559
55. Saraband Ingmar Bergman, Sweden 2003 553
56. The Holy Girl Lucrecia Martel, Argentina/Italy/Netherlands/Spain 2004 550
57. Y Tu Mamá También Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico 2001 537
58. Brokeback Mountain Ang Lee, U.S. 2005 537
59. Children of Men Alfonso Cuarón, Japan/U.K./U.S. 2006 537
60. Ten Abbas Kiarostami, France/Iran/U.S. 2002 527
61. Silent Light Carlos Reygadas, Mexico/France/Netherlands 2007 527
62. La ciénaga Lucrecia Martel, Argentina/Spain 2001 511
63. L'Enfant Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium/France 2005 511
64. Star Spangled to Death Ken Jacobs, U.S. 2004 508
65. Flight of the Red Balloon Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan/France 2008 498
66. RR James Benning, U.S. 2007 491
67. The House of Mirth Terence Davies, U.K./France/Germany/U.S. 2000 484
68. 25th Hour Spike Lee, U.S. 2002 469
69. 35 Shots of Rum Claire Denis, France/Germany 2008 460
70. Summer Hours Olivier Assayas, France 2009 453
71. The Host Bong Joon-ho, South Korea 2007 441
72. Adaptation Spike Jonze, U.S. 2002 438
73. Lost in Translation Sofia Coppola, U.S./Japan 2003 435
74. Gerry Gus Van Sant, U.S. 2002 433
75. Private Fears in Public Places Alain Resnais, France/Italy 2006 430
76. My Winnipeg Guy Maddin, Canada 2007 430
77. Punch-Drunk Love P.T. Anderson, U.S. 2002 426
78. Fat Girl (A ma soeur!) Catherine Breillat, France/Italy 2001 422
79. The Departed Martin Scorsese, U.S./Hong Kong 2006 422
80. Far From Heaven Todd Haynes, U.S./France 2002 421
81. Donnie Darko Richard Kelly, U.S. 2001 413
82. Moolaadé Ousmane Sembene, Burkina Faso/Morocco/Tunisia/Cameroon/France 2004 410
83. Woman on the Beach Hong Sang-soo, South Korea 2006 407
84. Memories of Murder Bong Joon-ho, South Korea 2003 405
85. West of the Tracks Wang Bing, China 2003 398
86. Wendy and Lucy Kelly Reichardt, U.S. 2008 395
87. Trouble Every Day Claire Denis, France/Germany/Japan 2001 390
88. Femme Fatale Brian De Palma, U.S./France 2002 386
89. Songs from the Second Floor Roy Andersson, Sweden 2000 386
90. Letters from Iwo Jima Clint Eastwood, U.S. 2006 379
91. Gran Torino Clint Eastwood, U.S. 2008 375
92. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Andrew Dominik, U.S. 2007 374
93. Last Days Gus Van Sant, U.S. 2005 368
94. The Man Without a Past Aki Kaurismäki, Finland/Germany/France 2002 368
95. When the Levees Broke Spike Lee, U.S. 2006 360
96. The Best of Youth Marco Tullio Giordana, Italy 2003 358
97. Turning Gate Hong Sang-soo, South Korea 2002 356
98. 24 City Jia Zhangke, China/Hong Kong/Japan 2008 352
99. In the City of Sylvia José Luis Guerín, Spain/France 2007 352
100. The White Ribbon Michael Haneke, Austria/Germany/France/Italy 2009 348
101. La libertad Lisandro Alonso, Argentina 2001 344
102. Nobody Knows Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan 2004 343
103. The Pianist Roman Polanski, France/Poland/Germany/U.K. 2002 343
104. The Duchess of Langeais Jacques Rivette, France/Italy 2007 343
105. Pan’s Labyrinth Guillermo del Toro, Mexico/Spain/U.S. 2006 335
106. WALL·E Andrew Stanton, U.S. 2008 331
107. Pulse Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan 2001 329
108. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 Quentin Tarantino, U.S. 2003 328
109. A Christmas Tale Arnaud Desplechin, France 2008 326
110. Time Out Laurent Cantet, France 2001 326
111. Police, Adjective Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania 2009 325
112. Secret Sunshine Lee Chang-dong, South Korea 2007 324
113. Mystic River Clint Eastwood, U.S./Australia 2003 323
114. Morvern Callar Lynne Ramsay, U.K./Canada 2002 321
115. Va Savoir Jacques Rivette, France/Italy/Germany 2001 321
116. Head-On Fatih Akin, Germany/Turkey 2004 319
117. Tarnation Jonathan Caouette, U.S. 2003 318
118. Hunger Steve McQueen, U.K. 2008 310
119. Miami Vice Michael Mann, U.S./Germany 2006 309
120. Los muertos Lisandro Alonso, Argentina/France/Netherlands 2004 306
121. Eureka Shinji Aoyama, Japan/France 2000 305
122. Irreversible Gaspar Noé, France 2002 305
123. Black Book Paul Verhoeven, Netherlands/Germany/Belgium 2006 304
124. The Lives of Others Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany 2006 303
125. The Secret of the Grain Abdellatif Kechiche, France 2007 301
126. Oldboy Park Chan-wook, South Korea 2003 300
127. The Piano Teacher Michael Haneke, Germany/Poland/France/Austria 2001 300
128. The Lady and the Duke Eric Rohmer, France 2001 299
129. The Incredibles Brad Bird, U.S. 2004 292
130. Mysterious Object at Noon Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand 2000 292
131. Death Proof Quentin Tarantino, U.S. 2007 288
132. Let the Right One In Tomas Alfredson, Sweden 2008 287
133. Ghost World Terry Zwigoff, U.S./U.K. 2001 275
134. Waltz with Bashir Ari Folman, Israel/France/Germany 2008 274
135. Dancer in the Dark Lars von Trier, Denmark/Germany/Netherlands/U.S./U.K. 2000 273
136. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 Quentin Tarantino, U.S. 2004 273
137. Spider David Cronenberg, U.K./Canada 2002 272
138. Friday Night Claire Denis, France 2002 271
139. Memento Christopher Nolan, U.S. 2000 270
140. United Red Army Kôji Wakamatsu, Japan 2007 269
141. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone Tsai Ming-liang, Malaysia/China/Taiwan/France/Austria 2007 264
142. Still Walking Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan 2008 262
143. Paranoid Park Gus Van Sant, France/U.S. 2007 262
144. Wild Grass Alain Resnais, France/Italy 2009 261
145. Divine Intervention Elia Suleiman, France/Morocco/Germany/Palestine 2002 261
146. Gosford Park Robert Altman, U.K./U.S./Italy 2001 260
147. Collateral Michael Mann, U.S. 2004 259
148. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button David Fincher, U.S. 2008 254
149. 13 Lakes James Benning, U.S. 2004 254
150. Dog Days Ulrich Seidl, Austria 2001 251

The All-Star Cast of Contributors include: Gilbert Adair, Sam Adams, Florence Almozini, Thom Andersen, Melissa Anderson, Dudley Andrew, Geoff Andrew, David Ansen, Alvaro Arroba, Anjelika Artyukh, Michael Atkinson, Miriam Bale, Alberto Barbera, Michael Barker, Margret Barton-Fumo, Jeanine Basinger, Marjorie Baumgarten, Raymond Bellour, Michael Berry, Stig Björkman, Livia Bloom, Frédéric Bonnaud, Nicole Brenez, Richard Brody, Andrew Bujalski, Joumane Chahine, Michael Chaiken, Andrew Chan, Chris Chang, Tom Charity, Paolo Cherchi Usai, Godfrey Cheshire, Li Cheuk-to, Ian Christie, Michel Ciment, Jem Cohen, Richard Combs, Mark Cousins, Noah Cowan, David Cox, Gary Crowdus, Doug Cummings, Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan, Mike D’Angelo, Evan Davis, Michel Demopoulos, Arnaud Desplechin, Sam Di Iorio, Anton Dolin, Lisa Dombrowski, Bilge Ebiri, Cheryl Eddy, David Edelstein, David Fear, Leslie Felperin, Paul Fileri, Richard Foreman, Scott Foundas, Lizzie Francke, Patrick Friel, Roger Garcia, Leonardo García-Tsao, Charlotte Garson, Susan Gerhard, John Gianvito, Eugène Green, Stefan Grissemann, Larry Gross, Haden Guest, Tom Gunning, Howard Hampton, Piers Handling, Molly Haskel, Shigehiko Hasumi, Sandra Hebron, Eugene Hernandez, J. Hoberman, Zdenek Holy, Travis Hoover, Bill Horrigan, Robert Horton, Alexander Horwath, Marcus Hu, Matthew Hubbell, Christoph Huber, Nick James, Jia Zhangke, Thierry Jobin, J.R. Jones, Kristin Jones, Kent Jones, Serge Kaganski, Laurence Kardish, Danny Kasman, Laura Kern, Dohoon Kim, Lewis Klahr, Stuart Klawans, Uri Klein, Gabe Klinger, Robert Koehler, Michael Koresky, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Jean-Marc Lalanne, Nathan Lee, Elisabeth Lequeret, Diego Lerer, Jonathan Lethem, Dennis Lim, Phillip Lopate, Jan Lumholdt, Guy Maddin, Adrian Martin, Todd McCarthy, Maitland McDonagh, Mark McElhatten, Don McMahon, Gary Meyer, Olaf Möller, Marco Mueller, Amir Muhammad, Rob Nelson, Katja Nicodemus, Geoffrey O’Brien, Mark Olsen, Damon Packard, Gilberto Perez, Jake Perlin, Vladan Petkovic, Andrea Picard, Tony Pipolo, John Powers, James Quandt, Quintín, Nicolas Rapold, Megan Ratner, Jean-Francois Rauger, Tony Rayns, Carlos Reviriego, Bérénice Reynaud, Jim Ridley, Pierre Rissient, Kong Rithdee, João Pedro Rodrigues, Jonathan Romney, Rachel Rosen, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Joshua Rothkopf, Sukhdev Sandhu, Andrew Sarris, Richard Schickel, Regina Schlagnitweit, Alex Leo Serban, Gene Seymour, Girish Shambu, Josh Siegel, Irma Simanskyte, Alissa Simon, P. Adams Sitney, Gavin Smith, Vivian Sobchak, Chuck Stephens, Bob Strauss, Chris Stults, Daniel Stuyck, Jim Supanick, Amy Taubin, José Teodoro, David Thomson, Kenneth Turan, Keith Uhlich, Noel Vera, Tom Vick, Peter von Bagh, John Waters, Ryan Werner, Brynn White, Donald Wilson, Jessica Winter, Sergio Wolf, Manuel Yáñez Murillo, Genevieve Yue, David Zuckerman

Best Film of the Decade (Village Voice Poll)

BEST OF DECADE	VOTES
Mulholland Dr.	10
In the Mood for Love	5
The 25th Hour	5
La Commune (Paris, 1871)	4
Zodiac	4
Yi Yi	4
Dogville	3
The New World	3
There Will Be Blood	3
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu	3
Syndromes and a Century	2
Spirited Away	2
Children of Men	2
A.I. Artificial Intelligence	2
No Country for Old Men	2
City of God	1
Wendy and Lucy	1
Evolution of a Filipino Family	1
Bad Education	1
The Werckmeister Harmonies	1
Gosford Park	1
The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein	1
Before Sunset	1
Code Unknown	1
Time Out	1
Tropical Malady	1
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	1
My Hand Outstretched To the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure	1
The Ballad of Jack and Rose	1
Grizzly Man	1
Blissfully Yours	1
Inland Empire	1
I'm Not There	1
The Story Of Marie and Julien	1
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	1
Memento	1
In Vanda's Room	1
The Royal Tenenbaums	1
Spider	1
The Intruder	1
Army of Shadows	1
Elephant	1
Femme Fatale	1
The Son	1
2046	1
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith	1
Synecdoche, New York	1
The Headless Woman	1
Punch-Drunk Love	1
West of the Tracks	1

Best Film of the Decade (Indiewire Poll)

#	Film Title	Score	Mentions
1	Mulholland Dr.	288	38
2	In the Mood for Love	239	32
3	Yi Yi	177	23
4	There Will Be Blood	168	29
5	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	161	23
6	The New World	133	19
7	Before Sunset	104	20
8	Zodiac	100	17
9	Platform	97	12
10	A.I.: Artificial Intelligence	91	12
11	Syndromes and a Century	89	14
12	25th Hour	79	11
13	No Country for Old Men	78	14
14	Brokeback Mountain	72	11
15	The Death of Mr. Lazarescu	69	13
16	The Son	54	8
17	Inland Empire	50	8
18	In Praise of Love	49	7
	Kings and Queen	49	10
	Punch-Drunk Love	49	8
19	Werckmeister Harmonies	44	8
20	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days	42	7
	The Royal Tenenbaums	42	8
	The World	42	6
21	Children of Men	41	7
	Los Angeles Plays Itself	41	8
22	Dogville	40	9
	The House of Mirth	40	7
23	L'Intrus	39	8
24	Grizzly Man	38	8
25	Lost in Translation	37	8
	The Lord of the Rings	37	5
26	A Christmas Tale	36	7
	Caché	36	8
	Tropical Malady	36	6
27	Synecdoche, New York	35	4
28	2046	34	5
29	City of God	32	5
30	Beau Travail	29	6
	Silent Light	29	4
	Spirited Away	29	7
31	I Heart Huckabees	27	4
	Kill Bill, Vol. 1	27	5
	Memento	27	5
	The Dark Knight	27	4
32	Cafe Lumiere	26	3
	Flight of the Red Balloon	26	4
33	Esther Kahn	25	4
	Lilya 4-Ever	25	5
	Regular Lovers	25	6
	Time Out	25	4
	Y Tu Mama Tambien	25	4
34	Best of Youth	24	3
35	A History Of Violence	23	5
	Femme Fatale	23	4
	L'Enfant	23	5
	Moolaadé	23	4
	Morvern Callar	23	4
	The Squid and the Whale	23	4
	Trouble Every Day	23	4
36	In the City of Sylvia	22	5
	The Diving Bell and The Butterfly	22	4
37	La Commune (Paris, 1871)	21	4
	demonlover	21	4
38	Gerry	20	2
	Once	20	5
	The Fog of War	20	4
39	Code Unknown	19	2
	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	19	3
	I'm Not There	19	4
	Talk to Her	19	4
	United 93	19	3
40	Goodbye Dragon Inn	18	4
	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	18	3

David Lynch habla de "Star Wars"

Stars in his eyes: Interview with David Lynch (Sight & Sound)

David Lynch's new music collaboration sees him use singing and photography in his continued exposing of the dark psyche of suburbia. He talks to James Bell

As those who have followed director David Lynch throughout his career will know, film-making has only ever made up part of his working life. Painting, photography, animation and music are all areas he has worked in. Far from being the side projects of a dilettante, Lynch has approached each with the same singular vision that marks his film-making.

Lynch's latest 'side' project was initiated by an invitation from the American music producer Danger Mouse. He asked Lynch to shoot a series of photographs to accompany an album he was working on with the songwriter Mark Linkous, aka Sparklehorse, which would be published in a book released with the record. Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse composed the music for an album's worth of songs and then enlisted different singers to perform on and write lyrics for each track, including Iggy Pop, Julian Casablancas of The Strokes, Gruff Rhys of the Super Furry Animals, Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips and, to his own initial surprise, David Lynch himself.

“Well, here's how it happened,” Lynch explains by phone from his home in the Hollywood Hills. “Danger Mouse told me that he had been working on this album with Sparklehorse and asked if I could do some still photos for it. I thought that was a cool concept. As he was leaving I said jokingly, 'You know, I thought you might be coming up here to ask me to sing.' I thought he would laugh, but he said, 'No, no, no, I want you to sing on a track.' So he started playing me tracks that didn't have anybody on them, one of them stood out, and that was the song 'Dark Night of the Soul'.”

Lynch had worked successfully on music in the past, among other projects writing lyrics for singer Julee Cruise for her two albums he co-produced with his regular composer Angelo Badalamenti in the early 1990s. But he has only recently begun to sing himself; the first time was on songs included on the Inland Empire (2006) soundtrack. Of the two songs he sings on the new album, 'Star Eyes (I Can't Catch It)' and 'Dark Night of the Soul', he says: “It was really a thrill. I am working on new music. I'm not a musician, but I play music. I started doing it just to make sounds, experimental sounds, and it's led to something. When you see real musicians and what some of them can do, it's mind-blowing; I love being in that world, it's just a thrill. Musicians depend on others, it's truly like a bonding, unity thing. It's magical.”

'Dark Night of the Soul' is sung by Lynch in a tremulous voice - imagine his distinctive speaking voice, with its unusual vowels, sung in a shy, higher pitch and you're getting close. The track gives the record its title, capturing the overall mood of the album. Although the different singers worked entirely independently of one another, all the songs ultimately seem thematically linked by suggesting a troubling, nightmarish - and typically Lynchian - journey through an urban night.

Lynch conceived the ideas for the three or four photographs that would accompany each song; all of the pictures in the book were shot especially for the project. As ever with Lynch, the initial process involved him 'fishing' for the ideas swimming around him. “I'd just sit and listen to those songs, images would come and I'd write those things down. And then Danger Mouse and his bunch and me and my crew, we organised two days of shooting, just like going out and shooting a film, but it was going out and shooting stills - that was a blast, such a great two days.”

The shots were all taken around Los Angeles, with Danger Mouse effectively acting as the producer: booking studios, securing locations, hiring actors. The shots are all immediately recognisable as Lynch's work; many could be stills from an unseen, as yet unmade Lynch film that you conjure in your mind as you look at them. “That's true,” agrees Lynch. “There is a narrative to each series, to each song. When you look at a series of still images, a story just comes out. Some people could be looking at them and listening to the music at the same time, and in their mind they've got a whole scene, or a whole sequence of scenes.”

One series begins with a shot of a couple embracing on a front lawn, before the next two shots show a bedroom with a bedside table covered with bottles of pills, suggesting dark secrets behind an outwardly happy and secure American life. Figures are often shot with stark light, as though caught emerging from the black night behind them. Francis Bacon is explicitly evoked in a number of shots of ghostly, distorted faces. In another series a blonde girl in a vintage dress is standing on a lawn tending a barbecue while flames - another familiar Lynchian element - lick against the black background. When pushed for an explanation of the themes behind some of the shots, Lynch - who famously hates analysing his work in interviews for fear of pulling the enigmatic, dreamlike ideas back to a more prosaic interpretation - replies only how “magical” the light was that day, or how excited he was by the possibilities afforded by his new digital camera, a Hasselblad 39 million pixels HD3.

These mysterious images feel like the kernels of ideas to be developed by Lynch in films in the future - he has after all used his work in other fields as 'sketches' for films throughout his career, especially in recent years. The website he founded in 1999 has hosted short films, animation and short documentaries showing him at work. (Many of these are collected on the forthcoming UK DVD release of the Dynamic (01) collection. Lynch can also be seen at work on Inland Empire and other projects in the documentary Lynch (one), available on UK DVD this month.) Inland Empire was full of ideas initially seen on his website, from the Rabbits sequences to the influence of some of the characters and scenarios of his crudely animated, blackly comic Dumbland series, which follows a violent husband as he is irritated by modern life and terrorises his family and neighbours.
“Getting films up on the internet gives the opportunity for a continuing story, which is pretty thrilling,” he says, “but it does take a lot of focus and time, even with this sped-up digital world. For a continuing story you'd have to have a great team and all the ideas written - it would be a big deal.”

I ask Lynch if he is excited by new 3D technology. “You bet, for sure. I did a 3D thing for Cartier at the dome at Art Basel in Miami, and that was a thrill. 3D projection on a dome! When I saw the dome's technology I thought, there's a future in that, you know, 'domes in homes'! The possibilities are cosmic. I've seen these 3D monitors - I'm going to use a couple of them in a project in Paris - where there are eight different viewing points, but it's 3D; some things seem to shoot out seven or eight feet from the television. It's incredible.”
Could this change the way he tells stories? “Every medium talks to you a different way, so 3D will start talking to you, but you've got to get into that world, see it and feel it - then ideas will start coming that would find a home in the 3D world.”

Though he has always been an outsider, at this stage in his career Lynch seems further than ever from mainstream American film-making, and doesn't even entertain the idea that his next feature could be made in the US. Mulholland Dr. (2001) was rescued by money from the French company StudioCanal, which also funded Inland Empire, and Lynch seems resigned to having to look to Europe for sympathetic backers for his next feature, whenever that might come. “The American studios are great, and they do what they do,” he says. “But their thinking is not correct, in my mind. When the bottom line is money it's just kind of sadness and heartache. In France particularly there's a whole different take on it, and I like that so much.” Much of Inland Empire was shot in Poland, and Lynch says he can imagine shooting at least part of his next feature there: “I love to work in Poland. I'm involved in a big project in Lodz; it's a giant electrical plant that we've converted into a studio for all kinds of things, from painting to theatre, music, film-editing rooms, workshops, welding… all kinds of things for artists in that area, and you bet it's somewhere I'll work myself.”

NB The day after I talk to Lynch, there is an announcement that owing to a legal dispute with EMI, the 'Dark Night of the Soul' album won't be released. Instead the book will come with a blank CD-R, an “artefact to use however you see fit” - implying that the music could be downloaded for free from a website hosting it.

The book 'Dark Night of the Soul' is available now. The DVDs of 'Dumbland' and 'Lynch (one)' are available this month from Scanbox Entertainment. 'Dynamic (01)' will be released in September.

David Lynch’s Interview Project (Episode 1)

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Este es, oficialmente, el primer episodio del Interview Project", de David Lynch

David Lynch’s Interview Project (Part 1)

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Una de las 121 entrevistas del nuevo proyecto de David Lynch que empezará a emitirse el 1° de junio. Se verá una nueva entrevista cada tres días, por lo que imaginamos que el asunto durará aproximadamente un año.

Davidlynch.com Present: The Interview Project (trailer)

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Coming June 1, 2009

Moby - "Shot In The Back Of The Head", directed by David Lynch