Nice to see you drop by again
I stumbled into the news of David Lynch's death by coincidence. I haven't seen a lot from Lynch aside from Eraserhead and Twin Peaks, something I should probably rectify at some point, but there was this guy Robert Jefferson who I found from when I was using Soundcloud back in 2016 who made frequent allusions to Twin Peaks when he was working on Into The Risenwarren. I believe that was the first time I'd heard about Lynch. He said he wanted his work on the Dark Lantern to be Black Lodge-adjacent recently. Turns out he teaches TV production in Northumberland as well
I agree if it counts for anything that he was among the minority of film directors who hired actors who expressed any interest after the fact of working with them on a project for a second or third time - Ingmar Bergman also struck me as a pretty chill dude but he might've been an asshole I don't know
lynch's work is great. he also references some older visual art directors sometimes. off the top of my head, the scene in the black lodge where cooper's chasing himself is a direct reference to kill, baby, kill! by mario bava. i still haven't finished watching s3
directors who can make cast members comfortable enough to want to come back whenever they get a phone call are usually good watches. john carpenter is also one. he had kurt russell and a handful of others. that being said sometimes it's atrocious. anything tim burton and johnny depp do together involves putting a ton of white makeup on depp and having him act weird. it certainly has a visual aesthetic to it but it's offputting
if i may recommend "What Did Jack Do?" is a short lynch did on netflix in 2017 when they were willing to experiment on weird, artsy stuff. he's smoking a cigarette and interviewing a monkey. 10/10 unless mulholland drive is more your thing (it seems bergman influenced this film some, i cannot verify this as i have not seen a lot of his work, really outing myself here as not up on the "kino")