jeez this has to be my favourite lynch interview. this guy actually got some specific answers and not vauge ramblings of falling in love with ideas. he gets what lynch won't talk about and actually asks questions that lynch is happy to explain.
@MrMarsFargo4 жыл бұрын
*The reason he doesn't talk about his other films is because his other films are surrealist.* The nature of surrealism, unique to other genres, is that surrealism is based off dreams. Dreams don't make explicit sense, and when you wake up from them you have to decode them. So part of the fun of a surrealist film is having to decode what it means, and if he explained any part of what his movies meant it would take away from that experience.
@LosBerkos4 жыл бұрын
@@MrMarsFargo But this interview contains plenty of discussion of his other films as well.
@MrMarsFargo4 жыл бұрын
LosBerkos Right, just not their underlying themes. He does reveal that much for the non-surrealist films he’s done.
@skatinghippo3665 жыл бұрын
Still the best Lynch interview ever conducted, not some timid interviewer too in awe to ask direct questions. Mark Cousins killed it & gained a lot more insight into his filmmaking process than any interviewer before (and probably since) this
@mousehead20007 жыл бұрын
I think the interviewer is great. He clearly adores his guest and his work.
@losttango4 жыл бұрын
Yep. One of the good things about Cousins is that he's prepared to zoom in and analyse/discuss the precise thinking behind a camera movement or focus pull and then zoom out and discuss the philosophical implications of an entire body of work. He also really knows his stuff - to the extent of tracking down a copy of a book Lynch once said inspired him. You could see that Lynch warmed to him when he produced that, and that he respected his depth of knowledge.
@tranzco11734 жыл бұрын
I like when the interviewers literally have the exact same outfit as Lynch, I've seen this a few times. Very funny.
@AnnaLVajda4 жыл бұрын
He sets him at ease right away by acknowledging Davids dislike for interviews so David knows it won't be an interrogation. The Irish can be very charming and have a gift for gab.
@LosBerkos4 жыл бұрын
@@losttango Hey, a question I'm just assuming you might know the answer to - I have this very strong feeling that Mark Cousins at some point did a long multi part video essay of some Lynch work (possibly Twin Peaks). Would you happen to know what it was called? Just realized I was thinking of The story of film: An oddyssey. Brilliant watch, impossible to stop.
@psychomantis1833 жыл бұрын
What?! He is a antagonistic douchebag, and his questions were idiotic (‘I noticed a phone in a couple of your films; what do you have to say about phones?’)
@MrElectricdude8 жыл бұрын
David handled this interview like a champ!
@LichenAndMoss7 жыл бұрын
indeed
@HalvLion6 жыл бұрын
it's short for champion
@TheMan-we4bc6 жыл бұрын
This is the best David Lynch interview I've seen.
@lucyvalentinemusic4 жыл бұрын
Totally. I wasn't expecting much. I'm always amazed how few people ask him about his animation work also and early films.
@psychomantis1833 жыл бұрын
What?! It’s garbage. Poor Lynch having to put up with that douchebag. Heaps better interviews on youtube.
@musichettajoly30517 жыл бұрын
Je t'adore Mark Cousins! No one does a film documentary or an interview better, and he has persuaded David Lynch to open up and reveal his wonderful and incredible psyche. Thanks for sharing
@snappycatchy9 жыл бұрын
"A man dreamt up by the Surrealist Manifesto" - Mark Cousins' way with words continues to amaze.
@BigDaddyZakk4208 жыл бұрын
snappycatchy Eh, hardly...
@AussoOnePlus8 жыл бұрын
extraordinary hand movement
@tomlee37657 жыл бұрын
I don't get why so many commenters are harsh on the host. I think he did ok. In the beginning of the interview, he mentioned that Lynch said interviews are like facing a firing squad, but you don't die. With that in mind, I noticed that Lynch was completely comfortable during the interview. The host must have been part of the reason for that.
@naneeleo8237 жыл бұрын
agree. His DavidLynchness said , he was doing this itw as a favour to Cousins .. so folks , stop slamming him
@Vingul4 жыл бұрын
@@jamesadams1584 NNNOOOOO HIS ACCENT, HIS ACCENT AAAAHHH!!!!!!!
@ballacaust8 жыл бұрын
I find this interview struck a happy medium between asking "DUR WHAT DUZ DIS MEAN" and the interviewers general observations. Wonderful video!
@ryanburns62847 ай бұрын
I could listen to David forever . Practical and logical in a dream world
@LilachLavy9 жыл бұрын
Great interview... i love the questions...
@felixcat43467 жыл бұрын
David Lynch is such an obstruse peson and artist, but I must say this is one of the best interviews on him. The interviewer doesn't let him off the hook for one instant.
@psychomantis1833 жыл бұрын
You mean he constantly attacks him via cherry picking incendiary criticism made by random reviewer-tards?
@fandude77 жыл бұрын
Good interviewer. Lynch shouldn't be afraid of tough questions. Some answers were rather evasive. This is what is frustrating when listening to Lynch, perhaps he doesn't know the answers. His movies are honest though and project a sense of reality, evwn when dreaming.
@zetetick3954 жыл бұрын
The Straight Story is a superb movie, must've seen it ten times! Incredible soundtrack too!
@alexerba35468 ай бұрын
Yes indeed à great and deep movie about forgiveness between brothers and road movie with soundtracks also
@tryharder757 жыл бұрын
Best Lynch interview. Mark Cousins made The Story of Film so he's fine.
@christinetran5513 жыл бұрын
Great interview. Cousins has such an innocent way of asking prying questions, a bit like Louis Theroux, but obviously with so much knowledge to back himself up. Lynch is the most at ease I've ever seen him in an interview.
@RenePeraza4 жыл бұрын
I was pleasantly surprised that David wasn't put off by the questions. I can hear the same questions asked by others might get a cranky response, such as the 'eye of the duck' ones, putting David on-the-spot!
@AussoOnePlus8 жыл бұрын
You cannot go SCENE BY SCENE with David Lynch !!
@firewalkwithme25394 жыл бұрын
Sissy was incredible in The Straight Story. Should have won an Oscar.
@glassjaw20073 жыл бұрын
I understood and learned more from this interview than the Masterclass course that i thought was very superficial and lacking and in the same vein as every interview he does where he mumbles about "Trascendental Meditation and ideas are like fish and you fall in love with them..." More than an interview it was more of a an amicable talking, you can see the face David puts when he is shown his own films that expression was new. The questions were on point and very enlighting.
@deviljam43 жыл бұрын
I'm glad they had the voice over the credits, it would have been unbearable if it ended on Lynch being insulted by the Serge Daney quote.
@danteslasher8 жыл бұрын
The way the interviewer talks reminds me of Werner Herzog
@hippyjodorowsky81027 жыл бұрын
Everyone hates this interviewer, I don't think anyone realises he made a fifteen hour documentary on the history of film. He's a great filmmaker and critic. And he's Northern Irish so he's got that unusual accent.
@bjrnnielsen75527 жыл бұрын
Watched some of that documentary once, it was great!
@LordMarlle4 жыл бұрын
@@bjrnnielsen7552 He did a beautiful letter in movie form to late Orson Welles. His voice and pacing really worked for me
@jamesadams15844 жыл бұрын
Hippy Jodorowsky limey shithead. Fuck him.
@LosBerkos4 жыл бұрын
@@jamesadams1584 pppFFFTHAAAAHAAHCHah "limey"?? You win the stupid prize for now, friend.
@edwardmulholland791210 ай бұрын
Mark is great, as for his accent - I’m from Belfast myself and have no problem with it.
@samd.18914 жыл бұрын
incredible. thank you for this.
@47suitsfrequency727 жыл бұрын
Lynch is genius.
@davidsabethai26335 жыл бұрын
best lynch interview
@hugosophy4 жыл бұрын
Interviewer asks good questions. He really drills him!!
@zetetick3954 жыл бұрын
I think, maybe subconsciously, David's hair has become more and more like Henry Spencer's over the years!
@jonasbrunstein14046 жыл бұрын
such a good guy
@koyot_inozemez8 жыл бұрын
in case anyone wonders, the song at the beginning - Lamb - B.Line
@arielzajac4 жыл бұрын
best interview
@xandergraph40127 жыл бұрын
Cousins: "What was that thump?" Lynch: "You'll have to wait and find out" Cousins: "I can say" Lynch: "Okay (by the way thanks for ruining it for everyone, and why ask 'what happened' if you're only going to tell everyone anyway?)" Watch his interview with Roman Polanski and how he argues with Polanski, telling him how Polanski interpreted a book that Polanski grew up with. Polanski fucking loses it with him!
@Sobreversivo4 жыл бұрын
Beautiful.
@kylehammitt5668 жыл бұрын
*spoilers for elephant man, twin peaks, and blue velvet included. would've been nice knowing that going in
@JohnSmith-so8ld8 жыл бұрын
+Kyle Hammitt You should always assume spoilers to be on the safe side.
@joshg.44488 жыл бұрын
...and some mild spoilers for "Lost Highway".
@travisbest90417 жыл бұрын
That's ridiculous. 😂
@fred2992jackson7 жыл бұрын
that shit was all over 25 years ago. Spoilers don't count.
@ToneSherpa4 жыл бұрын
hahahahahahaahaha
@brandonmatuja64985 жыл бұрын
Inspiring to see what I perceived as great patience and tolerance from Lynch in the face of some pretty annoying and bad questions. True, I don't know the interviewer, but he asks some pretty silly questions that must've pained Lynch to try to answer. I felt I could sense some of that pain, but there's also evidence that the Transcendental Meditation has been working good for Lynch because he kept up a pretty good humor with his honesty.
@jamesadams15844 жыл бұрын
Brandon Matuja I’ve followed Lynch since Elephant Man was released. This interviewer attempted to put words in Lynch’s mouth. His questions were sophomore and his limey accent was borderline intolerable. Fuck him.
@tonygourley48964 жыл бұрын
He only smoked 3 cigarettes in 49 min., but there were some cut-edits. The taplng of this was probably an hour and a half or two hours, so lets say he smoked 7 to 9 cigarettes . So what ? ,he's David Lynch , man, it's what he does, he makes great films and he smokes while doing so. I'll bet some of his best stuff was thought of, written, played out , and filmed, while he was smoking . Let the man have his pleasures, it obviously works. Bob.G
@akikolehmainen884 жыл бұрын
While still defending film in this interview, Lynch would later fall in love with digital to the extent that he said going back to film would simply kill him.
@ToneSherpa4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, Lynch is the kind of guy who probably hates waiting for lights to be adjusted, etc.. He wants to capture a feeling more than anything. And shooting on film is just one more impedance. Being able to just shoot and shoot and shoot and never have to change the reels is probably the biggest thing for him.
@marmite400 Жыл бұрын
Wish they'd do this with Mulholland Drive.
@aminag66418 жыл бұрын
I love David Lynch ❤️ Once you understand Transcendental Meditation,you will understand the mind of David Lynch .
@karldeltoid318 жыл бұрын
What a bullshit idea. I've practiced transcendental meditation for almost 40 years and while it puts you in a specific frame of mind, it has little to zero to do with Lynch's movies. Please take your half baked ideas of the world and fuck off.
@aelreddown42948 жыл бұрын
That's not what he says. He credits his movies, ideas and cinematic vision to the practice in countless interview. Maybe read up a little before you trash other people's comments.
@mattgilbert73478 жыл бұрын
He may find the practice useful in that he claims that it "energizes" his imagination. I read "Catching the Big Fish"; I don't think TM is for me, but if it has helped to give us Lynch, great. As soon as someone who isn't a theoretical physicist mentions "Quantum" I know one thing: there are not talking about QM/QED etc. They may be talking about something - something subjectively important and transformative - but it isn't theoretical physics.
@AndreasDevig7 жыл бұрын
You transcendentally meditate, huh?
@mike79p7 жыл бұрын
It's so crazy to me that Lynch would agree to do this. My impression was that he never would watch clips of his films and talk about them. He doesn't even like chapter stops on his dvds.
@larahamilton22737 жыл бұрын
Notice the sharks swimming behind David. Must be intensional and not to be missed!
@gehtdichnichtsan93232 жыл бұрын
"I have no idea what ronald reagan would say"
@Sikthkid7 жыл бұрын
This guys voice is fucking killing me!
@promoted7384 жыл бұрын
Now I want a doughnut.
@roy_for_real26744 жыл бұрын
I don't like this interview. I don't care about what his stuff means. I agree with him on that you know. His philosophy doesn't get much respect at all and he does answer. It's fun to look at something and think of what it might mean or find meaning you see in it. Otherwise it seems quite boring. And I also think a lot of personal things he tells do not matter.
@basti_marr7 жыл бұрын
It is almost imposible to me to watch a Lynch interview withouth lighting a cigarette
@DanielMartinez-hm8pu5 жыл бұрын
Ikr lol
@Blindastronomer7 жыл бұрын
I feel that the interviewer started off wanting to be quite confronting of David, but you can visibly see him warm to David completely over the duration of the interview.
@johnrayker62455 жыл бұрын
or maybe he admired his work all along. makes much more sense imo.
@losttango4 жыл бұрын
Other way round I think.
@phoebe45674 жыл бұрын
amazing interview, i'm amazed lynch didn't get mad.
@mattgilbert73478 жыл бұрын
Watch that right hand. It talks.
@LandersWorkshop7 жыл бұрын
He talks about all his movies except Dune.
@robertmccauley7547 жыл бұрын
He talks more about Dune than Wild At Heart.
@LandersWorkshop7 жыл бұрын
That's not saying much though.
@Johnconno Жыл бұрын
'Not one bit.'
@kevincallaghan32124 жыл бұрын
Whats the number for 911???
@basehead6177 жыл бұрын
Scene By Scene also got a show with Woody Allen. How did he get the two most difficult director interviews? Was he hugely respected or something?
@yohei724 жыл бұрын
Yep, Mark Cousins is a hugely respected critic and film historian and documentary filmmaker.
@LosBerkos4 жыл бұрын
@@yohei72 And still he was quite young and according to some angry commenters somewhat abrasive here. All the more impressive then, IMO.
@yohei724 жыл бұрын
@@LosBerkos No accounting for taste. I've rarely seen an interview clip on KZbin that didn't have at least a few people in the comments complaining that the interviewer is a moron or something similar. It comes with the territory.
@KidMillions3 жыл бұрын
If the BBC calls you don't refuse, at least in those days. They weren't there for Mark Cousins.
@ModernPlague8 жыл бұрын
Haha, look at the annoyed sigh & expression on Lynch's face around @32:12 when he's trying to explain the dynamics of 'fast' vs. 'slow' and the guy's not getting it. I've seen him react that same sort of way in other interviews--- you can tell that even though he's a sweet, sensitive guy, he can be very irritable! Imagine how cranky he'd be without meditating twice a day!
@FetaCheese2227 жыл бұрын
I don't think Cousins doesn't get it - he's just fishing for a less abstract answer and trying to get Lynch to talk about how it might manifest in a scene, which he eventually does.
@powertuber3.0476 жыл бұрын
They must hate lynch in Philly.
@zetetick3957 жыл бұрын
Quack quack!
@dimitrikorsakov25705 жыл бұрын
Quack is right
@ineuron7 жыл бұрын
What the F..K!!! Last question was the most meaningless sentence I have ever heard!!!!!?
@stopthephilosophicalzombie90177 жыл бұрын
Smokes like a chimney.
@TomerBenDavid3 жыл бұрын
:)
@kshitijnikam7 жыл бұрын
Did he just fuckin say Ether? 6:03
@waltdistel7167 жыл бұрын
aether
@ravishingravi7 жыл бұрын
kshitijnikam yes. Why surprised ?
@waltdistel7167 жыл бұрын
I think the OP is thinking of the chemical compound (C4H10O) instead of the medium (aether/ether)
@dimitrikorsakov25705 жыл бұрын
Why does he think that that part of the scene is extraordinary, I don't get it?
@LosBerkos4 жыл бұрын
Ask Ozu.
@Scot-Tube7 жыл бұрын
Poor David
@jmpsthrufyre4 жыл бұрын
That opening tho I want to stop watching Should I? By the way, I did
@Misanola9 жыл бұрын
The interviewer is aggressive and annoying.
@jerrygu53167 жыл бұрын
might be difficult not to seem aggressive and annoying relative to such a tacit man.
@zetetick3957 жыл бұрын
Good people the word is taciturn (as in 'doesn't speak too much about himself) - 'Tacit' means a unspoken thing, as in 'a tacit agreement' - just FYI for your future selves. :)
@VisualFeast75577 жыл бұрын
What a smug :-/
@fylgia85677 жыл бұрын
The interviewer is horrible and tries to take points on Lynchs cost when he questions his belief in angels (40:20-41:40). Like a person who needs to make others look bad in order to feel a little better about himself.
@camdude66709 жыл бұрын
interviewers voice is more than annoying.
@asaneryoga7 жыл бұрын
The interviewer is so damaging, absolutely unbelievable. How can he talk this way with Lynch... and his voice and accent is just awful - ähhhhh
@omgsolikevalleygirl5 жыл бұрын
With "Inland Empire" and "The Return" as well as his TM-antics, Lynch has definitely shown that he has completely lost it.
@Lalo-dh8xq5 жыл бұрын
Lost it in what way?
@omgsolikevalleygirl5 жыл бұрын
Lost where the "unified field of consciousness" turns out to be complete gobbledigok. Lost Highway still had sense of enormous clarity to it, and Mulholland Drive definitely still had the magic, but after that I just seem to keep on getting questions and random absurdities that don't appear to point to anything really interesting. The subtle difference between random and deep.
@Lalo-dh8xq5 жыл бұрын
omgsolikevalleygirl - I suppose that's the reason Inland Empire's reactions were somewhat polarized: It seemed absurd without a meaning. For me at least, the movie is about it's broken structure, a "fragmented reality". Laura Dern's character becomes "trapped" in multiple identities (herself, the character she's playing in the movie, even Laura Dern herself), breaking the barrier between film and reality, as well as the film and the observer, showing how us the audience see ourselves in a character. That's my personal take on it. I haven't finished watching The Return yet, but it's clear Lynch is trying to expand the mythology and philosophy of the Twin Peaks universe. Last part I saw was 8 and it was incredible, not only for it's great surreal imagery, but for it's symbolisms too. Lynch is the type of surreal artist who isn't weird for the sake of being weird. He's a serious artist and always treats the audience with respect, ever since his very first films, and that's what I love about him.
@zakhriskin16024 жыл бұрын
@@Lalo-dh8xq Hope you have finished the Return by now! 😁
@Lalo-dh8xq4 жыл бұрын
Zak Laine I have! Simply gorgeous, thought-provoking and powerful ❤
@Im9002glorious7 жыл бұрын
What an awful interviewer
@TeaDrinker30007 жыл бұрын
Maxa Yoshiko I don't think he's that bad.
@Im9002glorious7 жыл бұрын
Yeah but you're noided so
@zuzkarory8 жыл бұрын
the problem is with the interviewer. he is a dense and overly rational person and doesn't seem qualified to be in the position he is in.
@gogol12118 жыл бұрын
Very few people in the world are more qualified than Mark Cousins to talk about film just with anybody. His style might not be appealing to you (he is Scottish, not an American who tries to appear 'glossy' and too comforting). Read his book 'History of film' or at least watch the series - available on KZbin too. He is certainly very smart, informed and passionate about the medium. I guess his little provocative and candid style went over your head...
@lewiscranston8818 жыл бұрын
He's Northern Irish, mate.
@MACEASY28 жыл бұрын
Born there, lives in Scotland. So both.
@lewiscranston8818 жыл бұрын
No he's Northern Irish. Sit down.
@jamesadams15844 жыл бұрын
Limey asshole couldn’t find his ass with both hands. Fuck him and his attempt to put words in Lynch’s mouth. Watch your stupid fucking butler movies.
@dimitrikorsakov25705 жыл бұрын
The duck bit is as bullshitty as his films. Sounds really high minded, but is completely meaningless and incoherent.
@jamesadams15844 жыл бұрын
Dimitri Korsakov you have a tiny mind.
@dimitrikorsakov25704 жыл бұрын
@DJ BLACKWHOLE Ok, if you understand it, explain it
@LosBerkos4 жыл бұрын
@@dimitrikorsakov2570 Why don't you do us the favor of informing is of how somebody else's personal creative philosophy is so insulting to you?