David Lynch His 10 Best Films (According To IMDb)

David Lynch: His 10 Best Films (According To IMDb)

Whether or not you like Lynch, he’s proven to be a director that leaves not just fingerprints on his work, but full-fledged handprints.

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David Lynch is one of the most striking and polarizing directors of the last few decades. Cinephiles tend to either love him or despise him with not too much ambivalence in between.

Whether or not you like Lynch, he’s proven to be a director that leaves not just fingerprints on his work, but full-fledged handprints. There’s no mistaking a Lynch movie for anything else. Here are his most acclaimed works as rated on IMDb.

10 Dune (6.5)

Based on the granddaddy of all sci-fi books, Dune was the first film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal work. Starring Kyle MacLachlan, in his film debut as the hero Paul Atreides, the film would go on to be one of the biggest box office bombs at the time. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi had been released just a few years earlier and no sci-fi franchise had emerged to be its successor, which made Dune an attractive choice to Hollywood execs wanting to capitalize on sci-fi fever.

Unlike Star Wars, Dune was a sci-fi series that explored the complexities of religion, politics, socio-economic problems, and environmental issues (not exactly attributes that make for good marketing tie-ins). While it was certainly a challenge, Lynch was up for, it wasn’t a film that mainstream audiences flocked to cinemas to watch.

9 Inland Empire (6.9)

Lynch’s most recent theatrical release (can’t say “last” because who really knows when Lynch is going to hang up his jacket and call it a day?) was in 2006 with Inland Empire. Like many of Lynch’s projects, it’s difficult to describe exactly what the film is about, given the film’s very experimental nature. Laura Dern headlines the film as an actress that begins to experience a very nightmarish form of existence as she begins to “adopt the persona of her character in a film.”

Unlike Lynch’s previous films, it was shot digitally with a Sony PD-150 handheld camcorder. The film was also shot without a completed script as Lynch would give the actors their dialogue on set on the day of shooting. It’s probably not the best Lynch to start off with if you’ve never seen one, but those who do know what to expect from his films are unlikely to be disappointed.

8 Wild At Heart (7.2)

Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern lead in Lynch’s fifth film Wild At Heart. Cage and Dern play a couple, Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune, who go on the run from her mother, who subsequently puts a hit out on her daughter.

Featuring an all-star supporting cast ranging from Willem Dafoe to Harry Dean Stanton, the picture would win the Palme D’or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990. Perhaps because it was made around the same time that Twin Peaks began its run in 1990, it has been largely forgotten by time, but it’s one worth a visit if you haven’t checked it out yet.

7 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (7.3)

Lynch’s iconic TV show Twin Peaks would famously be canceled after just two seasons, but it lingered with Lynch for years to come. Not long after its initial cancelation, Lynch went to work on a prequel film to Twin Peaks that would give more background and context to Laura Palmer.

The film takes place in the week prior to Laura Palmer’s murder, not only following her, but Agent Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) from the TV series as well. While many prequels can serve as an entry point for newcomers to a series, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me plays much better with at least a cursory knowledge of the TV series.

6 Eraserhead (7.4)

This is the movie we can all identify by the poster if nothing else, right? Eraserhead was Lynch’s first film and a shocking one at that. The film begins with a floating head that emits a giant creature and it just keeps getting weirder. The film faced a troubled production, taking years to finally wrap up filming. But once it made it to the big screen, Lynch proved that he was a force to be reckoned with.

Lynch’s nightmarish depictions of the fear of being a parent may not have proven to be the most relatable film for mainstream audiences, but it gave them a sign that there was a new auteur on the block, and we might not ever be able to get his psychedelic imagery out of our heads.

5 Lost Highway (7.6)

How do you follow up starring in one of the biggest blockbusters of all time? You go do a film with David Lynch, of course! At least, that’s what Bill Pullman did after Independence Day rocked the summer 1996 box office. Pullman starred opposite Patricia Arquette as Fred Madison, husband to wife Renee Madison.

After receiving a home video from a mysterious voyeur, the couple finds itself pulled into a web of events it couldn’t have dreamed of (or did it?). Lost Highway isn’t the best remembered of Lynch’s works, but it’s certainly not the worst.

4 Blue Velvet (7.8)

Blue Velvet’s tagline was “It’s a strange world,” and, boy, was the world of Blue Velvet a strange one. Released in 1986, the film follows college student Jeffrey Beaumont, played by Kyle Maclachlan, as he stumbles upon a severed ear in a field, and it only gets stranger from there. Although he gives the ear to the police, he does a bit of his own sleuthing, which leads him down paths he could never have imagined.

While the film wasn’t a box office juggernaut, it has received a great deal of critical acclaim. Though not the highest rated on IMDb, it may well be Lynch’s most iconic film of all time, if not, a close second to Eraserhead.

3 Mulholland Drive (7.9)

This is the one that would strike a chord with Hollywood that no other Lynch film has before or since. Originally set up as a TV pilot that was rejected, Mulholland Drive was turned into a film in 2001.

The story follows the lives of an aspiring actress and an amnesiac woman whose paths cross, leading them on a journey that only Lynch could concoct. The film garnered Lynch a Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival (albeit shared with Ethan Coen for The Man Who Wasn’t There).

2 The Straight Story (8.0)

Of all of Lynch’s films, The Straight Story may be the one that stands separate from the others. It is the only one of his films to be rated G. It is produced by Disney. It is largely devoid of his regular collaborators in front of the camera. In spite of all that, Lynch called it his “most experimental movie” a few years following its release.

The Straight Story features Richard Farnsworth as Alvin Straight, who, upon hearing his brother has had a stroke, goes to visit him by driving his John Deere tractor from Laurens, Iowa to Mount Zion, Wisconsin, a 240-mile journey. Some hardcore Lynch fans may have been disappointed to find a lack of surreal images and events, but rather a straightforward telling of a man on a mission. It would be Farnsworth’s final role before he passed away a year after the film’s release.

1 The Elephant Man (8.1)

The Elephant Man may not be the most well-remembered Lynch film among moviegoers, but it certainly seems to be the most well-regarded. Based on two books about the title character, the film tells the story of Joseph Merrick, a man whose physical deformities earned him the moniker “Elephant Man” in 19th-century London.

The film uses Merrick to explore the basest of human instincts, our drive to harm the other, and our struggle to integrate outsiders into society. With memorable performances by both Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt, the film is one that is not soon forgotten.

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