Just saw this today for the first time- a 35mm projection as well, was really haunting, but also has that Lynch charm with the humor sprinkled in. I was afraid going in, of it being this crazy surreal movie where I wouldnt grasp anything. So I was really pleasantly suprised when I connected with and understood a lot of what was going on or being implied the first time around.

Rest In Peace to David lynch. One of the greatest directors of all time and one of my biggest heroes. He was such a nice and genuine guy and really proved you can be a great person and a genius at the same time. He loved his actors so much and they loved him right back. He is a legend and will forever be missed

I agree that all interpretations are correct - that's what I love about Lynch which influenced my viewing of all settlement. However maybe I'm being very serface level with eraserhead but, to me, it's simply about the fear of being thrust into taking care of a family for the first time.

Thanks to this video essay you should do all his films and also lynch's twin peaks series

I've never been affected by a celebrity death in the way I was with Lynch. Seeing this and Mulholland Drive at 15 taught me how to watch films, showed me what they could be, introduced me to the vast ways film could make me feel. And some of the ways his films hit are beyond words, which is why I think he refused to ever explain them. RIP to my favorite filmmaker. Thanks for this thoughtful video James.

So the band the pixies did a cover of in heaven everything is fine aka lady in the radiator. It goes hard af

2:43 I believe that most of the held shots in Eraserhead last 13 seconds (so between 10 and 15 seconds, as you were saying).

PLEASE react to more Lynch films! Hell, do all of Twin Peaks!

Looking forward to some Twin Peaks on here

I wanna see a vid like this about Blue Velvet🔥 Luv the new content James 🤙🏾

RIP my favorite director. Glad to see you make a video like this. Hoping you get to Twin Peaks, Fire Walk With Me and The Return at some point.

This movie is a Nightmare on film.

Oh, how much garmonbozia we've puked in the last week or so... But he will always be with us in dreams, and in heaven where everything is fine.

I love this movie, it is like a dream. I really appreciate your perspective. David Lynch had a great vision, whether it be story telling or music. Thanks James, your video essay is awesome!

Isn't that a satisfying ending? Tom with the Big Dick Energy, the spoiled rotten siblings in shambles (they're still billionaires who will never have to worry about any real problems for rest of their lives), and Greg as Tom's Sporus?

Hey James, you should check out Red Letter Media's re:View of Eraserhead. They cover a lot of territory in that one.

Bring more video essays! This was so cool to see your opinion on this! Also need another live Q&A with this yt and patreon community And if you want to carry on with your animation movie series, The Wild Robot is an absolute Must-watch!!! Similar animation to Puss in boots the last wish but so much better and more textured! Dreamworks absolutely cooked with that one 👌👍🤘😎🔥💯

"Who did this to us?!" "I'm here on business!" 😂😂😂

I loved listening to his daily good mornings he did on his KZbin channel. He really did try to reach out to all people everywhere, and wake us (through film, talks, interactions) for us to see and understand the core of our personal and species' emotional existence, and come together.

There was this clip on tiktok of theater goers giving their opinion on the movie right after viewing. It's very interesting

Eraserhead is a fever dream. It's an experience, when we watch the film we are entering into the world of Lynch.

i thought shiv's ending really sad honestly.. she turned into her mother

David Lynch will always be unique. He was one of a kind, may he rest in peace. Great video James, hope you’re doing well. Take care!

Look at my knees!!

ooooh video essay, you good at this! RIP David Lynch. His films had a huge impact on me growing up, embracing all the nitty gritty bits of my feelings that are hard to convey with words. I'm a writer, and growing up i would shut myself down thinking that an idea is stupid or that it's not good enough. David Lynch taught me to just fucking go with it, and if it emotionally makes sense, then that's good enough.

I've actually watched this on acid around 30 years ago. Can't say I recommend that combo lol. Watched it many times sober though, and spent way too much time analyzing it with friends.

Have yet to watch Eraserhead but David Lynch is responsible for one of the most formative and earth-shaking film experiences I've ever had. My best friend and I ran a film club in our final year of sixth form (high school in the UK), people rarely turned up but it was nice. One day we happened to find a copy of Mulholland Drive in the media studies classroom where we had the screenings, it was just my friend and I watching this puzzle of a film. We came out of that room completely changed - we were 17. A beautiful part of life is experiences like that.

I discovered this film while late night channel hopping... It's now indelibly stamped into my eyeballs

Thank you for the chicken.

i LOVE this style of video, thank you for this tribute! rest in peace

cool idea

This movie hits completely differently after becoming a father. Things from it give me nightmares now that I never anticipated before. God, I miss David Lynch already…

RIP David Lynch, the world lost one of it’s greatest dreamers, but he inspired generations of new dreamers

Video Essays, hurray! RIP to a legend. The Office & Better Call Saul & Always Sunny & More on Patreon! Click here: www.patreon.com/jamesvscinema Have a great day y'all

Tom got me feeling like a proud mom

I have 3 half sibling (I am eldest daughter 😂)they act just like the 3 of them. I laughed so much when Kendall said he was the eldest boy because thats so similar to what the first of my half sibling said when my dad gave more of his land to my second half sibling.

Roman is the only one who has a chance of finding peace. He was thinking about Gerry - that was her favorite drink. Roman was really abused by Logan and even with all that damage, Roman was still the most insightful, self-aware, and compassionate of the sibs.

Overall, the latter half of the last season looked as if in 2021 Stanley Cup Finals Habs took Bolts to game 7 OT and lost just because of a lame Shea Weber turnover.

I'm Team Gregory but that's basically the same as being Team Tom.

Gotta admit: I also was always team Tom! He was the only one in the show being able to love.

I don't feel like Tom is the winner. He's gonna be a Kleenex CEO for half a year to complete the transition and absorb all the pain, and then he's probably gotta go.

I was half expecting Kendall to lose the vote because he had to spend a week on a porcelain throne after drinking "the meal fit for the king"

> Roman is not that guy I mean, yeah, probably. But when it comes from Ken...

Greg went from a costume performer to side of the CEO. Legendary.

It’s just not fair, Kendall is the eldest boy!!!! 😡

I absolutely love this movie. Yes, it's insane, but at the same time it's exactly what Space Opera cinema should be. It's an experience. It's an adaptation that's more accurate in imagination and the feeling it evokes than the plot.

Nero and Sporus comes full circle. Tom has killed Shivs play for the CEO job and now has Greg devoid of all his power shackled to him forever

Roman, obviously he had way too much of trauma to ever be the one. Regardless it kinda irked me when the show was on-going how incompetent people said him to be for what was shown and said. He started from the bottom classes to learn the business, did some tough calls like the foreign money, was a really good with people (to make contacts) and clearly had been the whole series Actually studying the company with having a mentor. (Already in was it S02 when he, Ken, Rhea and Logan is laughing in the plane at the Shiv's powerpoint. It all just tells how he had kept on the learning curve and was inside). Then again at the time everyone was waaayy toooo much bigging up Shiv. When it could be true that she is inherently the smartest one, she also did Nothing asked when Logan was ready to fast-track her.. which made him sway. She came in to read a magazine and left early when someone "beneith her" was supposed to show her how things worked. Way too spoiled and entitled while Roman would have been way too of an mess. It shows how little Shiv learned during the series when in S04, the episode where the will is found she says that she did the whatever organizing yadayaa and Ken just coldly says that it's elementary stuff. There was a reason why Roman was chosen with Ken and not Shiv and it got nothing to do with genders. There is a list of problems with all of them, but in the end she was really most mostly for a show, could pull of some tricks and not others and same when seeing if something is done to her or not (also a bad liar). Like Rhea said that she thinks she is smarter than she is. Rhea was able to just like that con her since she did not learn the business landscape. Then in the end throws a jealous fit for not being IT when they all could've divided the company into the 3 sections they talked. She played herself into a place she For Sure Hates.. Her having to be the one to discuss game plan For Tom and not the otherway around. Tom being just basically the face of the company aka Shiv does not get anything with that. Ruined it all with the entitled spite. It's 100% to the scorpion and the frog paraller which came into my mind as soon as Tom gave her the scorpion. A scorpion and a frog is in a rock at heavy rain with water surrounding them and they make a deal since the scorpion cannot swim, that the frog carries it to the other side to the safety and they both live. They do that and the scorpion Still stings the frog while swimming with mutual destruction with the frog asking why did it do that and the scorpion just says that it is just it's character. Cannot help itself since it's.. scorpion. That was heavily parallered with Tom and Shiv, but it also 100% works at the end too. She makes the decisions because it's... Shiv. She just cannot anyone else to have it if she cannot have it. Even if it means that she get's nothing.